subsidized electricity prices

In the past few years, illegal copyright mining, highly subsidized electricity prices, and higher power demand from the production of oil and natural gas drove steady growth in Iran’s electricity demand and strained its capacity during the summer peak. Also, aging power plants in Iran reduce the overall available generation capacity from its installed capacity until more efficient plants come online. As a result, this supply gap has led to power shortages and rolling blackouts to the residential and industrial sectors almost every summer since 2020.61 In 2023, peak summer demand in Iran exceeded ufabet