The Iranian people are suffering from an electricity crisis. The electricity crisis is rooted in the Iranian regime’s strategy. Instead of solving these problems, this regime spends all of Iran’s resources on terrorism and nuclear ambitions and does not care about the fate of the Iranian people.
Iran’s vast assets are in the hands of a regime whose goals and desires are to safeguard its rule by all means.
Iran’s wounds and problems have remained open and are continuously deepening for years now.
Research conducted by Iran’s open data platforms indicates that this year many provinces in Iran have experienced “gas cuts, followed by power cuts”.
The results of this research show that “the supply of natural gas to factories and petrochemical plants has been cut off, and Iran is unable to achieve its petrochemical production goals.”
According to this report, in recent months, the Iranian government has declared nationwide emergency holidays due to “extremely hot weather,” but many experts believe that these holidays are due to electricity shortages.
Electricity Crisis
Iran’s open data platform explains why Iran, which was contemplating exporting its surplus electricity 20 years ago, is now facing a severe electricity crisis.
Insufficient rainfall
According to this platform, one of the reasons for this crisis is the lack of rainfall in recent years, while “20% of Iran’s electricity is supplied through hydroelectric power plants.”
Lack of investment in other renewable energy sources
Iran has not invested in other renewable energy sources such as solar and wind. The Iranian open data platform previously explained in an article that “the United Arab Emirates, which does not have a dam for electricity generation, has three times the capacity for renewable energy production compared to Iran.”
Investment in nuclear power plants
Instead of investing in renewable energy sources, Iran has invested “billions of dollars in its nuclear power plants, which have also been subject to major sanctions against the country. However, currently only 1-2% of Iran’s electricity is generated by nuclear energy.”
Gas Crisis
Examinations by open data platform indicate that Iran has been heavily reliant on gas imports from Turkmenistan for many years to meet the gas needs in the northeastern provinces of Khorasan and Golestan. However, Iran has not paid its bills on time, and Turkmenistan has filed a legal case against Iran.
This report states that in recent weeks, Iran has claimed that Turkmenistan will resume its gas supply, “however the exact rate and duration of the gas supply in the winter months are still unknown.”
Iran’s open data platform states that one of Iran’s major achievements, which the government has boasted about for 20 years, is the replacement of fuel-powered plants with gas-powered plants. However, “in recent years, with the reduction in gas supply, the government has resorted to burning mazut in its power plants, leading to serious air pollution.”
Examinations by Iran’s open data platform reveal that the “most striking reason for the electricity shortage is the rapid depletion of reserves in the South Pars gas field. Iran’s gas reserves account for approximately 17% of the world’s total gas reserves and are ten times larger than Europe’s total gas reserves.”
South Pars alone accounts for about 30% of Iran’s total gas reserves, however 70% of Iran’s gas supply comes from the South Pars gas field. Therefore, any production issues in South Pars can lead to a severe gas reduction in Iran.
South Pars began its production about 30 years ago.
Experts describe the gas shortage in Iran as a “structural and highly complex problem.”
Examinations indicate that “Iran made significant investments in the development of the South Pars gas field 20 to 30 years ago but has neglected it in recent years. It is likely that in the near future, the problem of gas shortages in winter, and consequently power outages, will worsen.”
The Iranian regime, under the pretext of resolving the electricity crisis, proceeded to build a nuclear power plant, which not only failed to solve this problem but also resulted in the loss of a significant amount of capital from the Iranian people.
The cost of Iran’s nuclear activities is as ambiguous as its background. The discrepancies and differences between the figures and statistics announced by regime officials are so great that sometimes the difference in figures reaches several billion dollars.
Mohammad Saeedi, a former deputy head of the regime’s Atomic Energy Organization, estimated the cost of Iran’s nuclear program at less than $2 billion.
The construction of this power plant has taken about 36 years and its second and third phases have not been put into operation yet.
On June 30, the UAE announced that it has launched its 1,177-MW Noor Abu Dhabi solar power plant. This is the world’s largest solar power plant and was built in two years at a cost of $870 million.
The official website of the UAE National Water and Electricity Company announced that the power plant has been commissioned with the installation of 3.2 million solar panels in eight square kilometers of land.
