Power Cuts Loom in Winter as Fuel Inventories Deplete

Despite the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company’s efforts to fill the thermal power plants’ inventories, they are still 25% empty and power cuts loom in winter, the spokesman of state-run Iran Power Generation, Distribution and Transmission Company said.
“Power stations are projected to need 230 million cubic meters of natural gas per day in winter, but they will be supplied with less than 50 mcm, so it will be inevitable to burn liquefied fuel,” Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi was also quoted as saying by Barq News.
Frequent power outages in the winter are very likely unless NIORDC, a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company, takes measures to keep all fuel depots full during the winter, he added.