Industries Urged to Adjust Power Consumption to Off-Peak Hours

The state-run Power Generation, Distribution and Transmission Company’s (Tavanir) is to sign contracts with industry owners to shift consumption from peak (11 pm to 7 am) to off-peak hours, head of the company said.
“The measure was a success in summer and the same approach should be adopted in winter to avoid power cuts,” Mohammad Hassan Motavalizadeh said, IRNA reported.
Drawing parallels with last winter, he noted that daily power consumption has risen 5% (40 million kilowatt hours/d) to 840 million kilowatt hours.
Of the total increase 3% is by industries with their outdated equipment taking a toll on the national power grid, Motavalizadeh said. “If they (industries) shift consumption to non-peak hours close to 50,000 kilowatt hours of power can be saved per day and help curb sporadic power outages.”