Power Plants Obliged to Burn Mazut

Since the early onset of winter and increase in home gas consumption, gas supply to power plants has been disrupted as priority shifts to households forcing power plants to use liquid fuel, managing director of Iran's Thermal Power Plants Holding Company said.
“Gas supply to power plants was cut last week and more liquid fuel is being used,” Mohsen Tarztalab was quoted as saying by ISNA.
The main reason is higher demand from households and industries, and if they reduce consumption there will be no need for power stations to use liquid fuel, Tarztalab said.
In the third month of the fall in the Persian calendar (Nov 21-Dec 20), on average 93 million cubic meters of gas, 80 mcm of diesel and 20 mcm of mazut was delivered to power plants every day. However, this volume was cut in the last week of the month to 60 mcm. The outcome was that liquid fuel supply to power stations shot up.