Rural Gas Grid Has New Customers

In line with the government's goal of linking 90% of suburban homes to the national gas network by 2022, the grid is passing through rugged mountain areas in Yazd, Gilan, Kurdestan, Semnan and Fars provinces.
According to the Oil Ministry news portal, more than 27,000 villages, constituting 82% of the rural population is now connected to the grid.
Managing director of Yazd Gas Company, Ali Akbar Meidanshahi said 490 villages in the province have access to natural gas and the rest, mostly in mountainous regions in Mehriz County such as Shirkouh, Miankouh and Kanjkouh, will have access to piped gas by 2022.