Private sector suggestions for solving energy problems
According to the economic correspondent of Arash Najafi News Agency, today in the meeting of the Energy Commission of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the issue of energy supply problems of industrial units in winter, he said: (Oil, electricity and gas) to cross.
He added: “While Iran has one of the largest oil and gas reservoirs in the world, we have never used our credits as a businessman and as a wealth holder, and for this reason we have lost several capacities, one of which was not the necessary capital and Sufficient facilities for Extraction And optimizing oil wells and creating suitable and stable conditions for the proper exploitation of oil reservoirs, and today our oil industry is facing this difficulty.
The head of the Energy Commission of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce said: “The wrong process of exploitation and negotiations and the way of cooperation with domestic and foreign investors have caused us not to have investors with confidence to enter the oil industry and revive it.”
Najafi referred to the issue of export security and said: “If we do not use the credits, we will not find suitable partners, and therefore we will be involved in not selling products with every political game and region.”
The head of the Energy Commission of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce stated: “The discussion of optimizing energy consumption is one of the top strategies in the world, and this capacity can save us from the economic challenge, unemployment and financial turnover in the country.”
He added: “One of the slogans of the world is that the biggest strategy of energy production in the world is to reduce energy consumption and optimize energy consumption, this process is considered as a production and therefore we must pay special attention to this issue.”
Najafi, stating that the country’s electricity industry also faces the same challenges, said: “More than 50% of the country’s power plant sector is in the hands of the private sector and the type of operation of the electricity and electricity industry is managed in such a way that owners of electricity industries erode Have passed and not reducing electricity consumption does not give the owners of power plants the opportunity to overhaul and new investment capacity.
He said that in the field of power plants in the electricity industry, we are getting worse, adding: “Over time, we will probably lose some power plants, and the speed of investment has become completely slow and stagnant due to the lack of proper return on investment.”
The head of the Energy Commission of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce, stating that the above-mentioned issues are the challenges of the country’s electricity and oil industry, said: “This is while our country is one of the advantages of that energy, but in many areas we are no longer superior due to rapid development.”
* Private sector concern over the return of the regulatory bill in the electricity industry by the Minister of Energy
Najafi further referred to the solutions of the private sector to get out of the problems in the field of oil and electricity and said: “Regulatory discussion in the electricity and oil industry is very important. The private sector has taken action and despite the opposition of the public sector, these two issues have reached the stage of government approval and submission of the bill to the parliament, but recently we found out that the Minister of Energy asked the parliament to return the bill and therefore we wonder why This action has been taken for 4 years.
The head of the Energy Commission of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce added: “Delaying the regulatory discussion in the field of electricity and oil will definitely be to the detriment of the government, and therefore we ask the Minister of Energy to do this during meetings if they have an opinion on the bill.”
Najafi stated: Regulatory It causes healthy and logical competition between suppliers and activists in different fields and therefore makes systems non-grammatical and based on logical methods.
He added: “So one of the solutions to solve the problems Regulatory It is the oil industry that has gone through the stages and must be institutionalized in the government secretariat, and the law of the Ministry of Oil states that a regulatory body must be established.
Najafi said: “We were also hopeful in the electricity industry and its stages were almost completed, so we raise the return of the bill by the Minister of Energy here as a concern and we hope that special attention will be paid to it.”
* Not even one percent optimization of energy consumption was achieved after targeting subsidies
Referring to the payment of a subsidy of 45,500 tomans to every Iranian by the tenth government since 1989, he said: “Despite the opposition, this was done.”
The head of the Energy Commission of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce, stating that the purpose of optimizing subsidies was to improve the consumption pattern in the country, said: not even one percent of energy optimization in the country did not happen, while for 11 years the amount of 4,200 billion The toman is provided by the government and paid to the people.
He said that at the beginning of the subsidy to the people, the value of this subsidy was about $ 68, but now the value of this money has reached $ 1.5, but the amount of 4,200 billion tomans is still imposed on the government and no efficiency and no effect for It also has no floors.
* Ask the private sector to stop paying subsidies / subsidy money to solve industry problems
Najafi said that the private sector is asking the government to stop paying subsidies, adding: “This amount of payment has no effect other than increasing inflation, but with this cumulative amount can solve the problems of the electricity industry and part of the problems of the oil industry and even other industries.” .
He added: “It is not possible to optimize fuel consumption by the people because people are not experts in this field and therefore we should not expect that fuel subsidies will be optimized by paying subsidies.”
The head of the Energy Commission of the Iran Chamber said: “Officials may say that by increasing the price of fuel and paying subsidies, the increase in the price of energy carriers was managed, while this is a big lie because there has been no return.”
He added: The price of fuel has increased 3,000 times since the beginning of the revolution because the price of a liter of gasoline was one toman at the beginning of the revolution and today its price has increased to three thousand tomans, while with this price increase no management in fuel consumption has been done. Is .
* Inflation increased by 68% after the increase in gasoline prices
Najafi stated: “With the increase in fuel prices, in addition to the increase in costs in the bills, we also witnessed the phenomenon of intensification and licensing, which was exemplified by the increase in prices in 1998.” In 1998, it was possible to increase 5 to 8 percent directly in the economic account of each of the gas companies, but the phenomenon of 68% inflation was observed, the synergy caused us to have 68% inflation in 1998.
* Increasing the price of energy carriers is not the solution to the problems in the field of electricity and gas
The head of the Energy Commission of the Iran Chamber of Commerce and Industry said: “As the private sector at that time, we announced to the government’s economic deputy and today we announce to the current government not to increase prices without planning and monitoring, because raising prices without planning is a solution to economic problems.” This is not the case even in the electricity industry.
He said that electricity activists believe that in order to solve the problems of the electricity industry, its price should be updated, adding that updating prices, especially in the field of energy and fuel, will not solve the problems because it has never been effective.
Najafi said that the gradual increase in fuel and energy prices may solve some problems, adding: “One should not expect a sudden price increase with a shock to the market to solve the problems, but a sudden increase in prices will increase the problems.”
He added: “In 1998, the price of fuel was higher than the FOB of the Persian Gulf, but in a few months the price was still lower than the FOB of the Persian Gulf, and now the price is one third higher than the FOB of the Gulf, so increasing the price of energy carriers can never be effective.” And we strongly oppose an increase in the price of energy carriers, and we must plan for it to reduce the phenomenon of escalation.
The head of the Energy Commission of the Iran Chamber stated: One rial of the amounts that are paid monthly as targeted subsidies برنمیو and this money is wasted, so the government and the people must be convinced to stop paying this money.
He added: “With the money of subsidies, if investments are made in industries, problems can be solved.”
Referring to power outages in industries this summer, Najafi said: “With the power outage, cement brokers increased the price of cement and Although The price of cement dropped slightly after the problems, but never to its original price Returned.
The head of the Energy Commission of the Iran Chamber of Commerce and Industry, pointing out that warnings have been given about gas shortages this winter, said: “So if we are going to face cold, the priority is to supply gas to residential houses and therefore industries will be damaged again.” Various factories enter and therefore some goods become more expensive and abuses take place.
* Gas import The medieval solution of the government to solve energy problems
Emphasizing that the ultimate beneficiary is to reduce the government’s energy consumption, he said: “With the import of gas, some of the problems will be solved medievally, but our main problem will not be solved.”
Najafi stated: in order to optimize energy consumption in 1394, the law on removing barriers to competitive production and upgrading the country’s financial system was approved by the Chamber of Commerce, but in the Fuel Consumption Optimization Company and the Ministry of Oil, its executive regulations were distorted and one of the biggest mistakes of the Minister of Oil. The former allowed the directors of the Ministry of Petroleum to establish executive bylaws for Article 12 and eliminate the effectiveness of the law.
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