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Iran electricity supply and tariff management

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Iran is addressing various challenges regarding its electricity supply and costs. Officials from the power company Tavanir clarified that recent spikes in residential electricity bills were not caused by price hikes, but rather by households exceeding consumption benchmarks and moving into higher-priced tariff tiers. Minister of Energy Abbas Aliabadi recently announced the official end of planned power outages across the country, attributing this to declining consumption and essential maintenance. While infrastructure has faced damage due to recent wartime conditions, power plants are undergoing repairs to ensure stability for the upcoming winter. As winter approaches, energy officials are prioritizing the stabilization of both electricity and gas supplies. Masoud Moradi, Deputy of Production Management at the Thermal Power Company, emphasized the necessity of managing production, fuel, and maintenance schedules simultaneously to prevent shortages during the coldest 100 days of the year. Moradi noted that recent heatwaves delayed approximately 3,800 megawatts of planned maintenance. Regarding gas supplies, Saeed Tavakoli, Deputy Minister of Petroleum and CEO of the National Iranian Gas Company, reported that 90 million cubic meters of gas have been restored to the production cycle following sabotage attacks on energy facilities last March. However, he warned of a new deficit of 130 million cubic meters resulting from those attacks. Reza Sepahvand, spokesperson for the Parliamentary Energy Commission, noted that this gas imbalance is expected to result in continued gas and electricity supply restrictions for industrial sectors through the end of the year. To mitigate shortages in power plants, authorities are utilizing liquid fuels, having already stockpiled over 3.5 billion cubic meters of diesel and fuel oil. Additionally, the government plans to transition all fuel cards to a bank-card-linked system by the end of the year to manage subsidies directly through individual accounts.

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