Electricity Peak Demand Jumps 20%

While power consumption during peak hours rose by less than 5% between 2010 and 2020, Iran's peak demand jumped by 20% in the current fiscal year (started March 21), said a deputy manager at Iran's Thermal Power Plants Holding Company, a subsidiary of the Energy Ministry.
“Last year's highest peak demand was about 45,000 megawatts between March and May, which has reached 54,000 MW in the current year, up 20%,” Nasser Eskandari was also quoted as saying by the Energy Ministry’s news service.
“The rise in the number of household and industrial subscribers, low precipitation, lack of efficiency in Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, low investment in the power sector and legal and illegal crypto-mining have all put the electricity industry under unbearable pressure,” he said.