Power wastage in the national electricity grid has fallen to under 10% in the last two weeks, deputy of distribution coordination at Iran Power Generation, Distribution and Transmission Company (Tavanir), said Monday.
The reduction in power loss is the outcome of measures adopted in the past years, Mahmoud Reza Haqifam noted, adding that there are other projects in the pipeline that will contribute to judicious power consumption, ILNA reported
Discarding old and faulty equipment, lines, utility posts, cables and electric meters as well as discouraging illegal use (theft) of electricity are among measures taken by the relevant bodies to reduce electricity loss.
The Energy Ministry has said it has plans to reduce electricity wastage to 9% by 2022.
According to Arash Kordi, managing director of Tavanir, Iran has a vast power network and its rate of wastage understandably exceeds the global average.
"More than 10% of electricity goes to waste in the national grid because of dilapidated equipment and the infrastructure of the national grid is of poor quality," he said.
The optimum wastage rate is 8% and the Energy Ministry is doing all it can to reduce electricity loss.
Replacing old cables is one of the major ways to help decrease power waste. “There are 1,500 kilometers of worn cables in Tehran, 534 km of which have been renewed and the rest will be replaced within two years,” managing director of Tehran Regional Electricity Company, Gholamreza Khoshkholgh, said.
TREC is the oldest power company in the country and that is the reason its networks to a large extent have outlived their usefulness.
