When will the new water tariffs be implemented?

Ali Akbar Mehrabian this Saturday morning visited the activities of the 121 public relations system, the observatory (follow-up office) and the control center for dispatching affairs and the management of the power distribution network of Greater Tehran.

Minister of Energy, on the sidelines of a visit to Center 121 and the dispatching center of the Greater Tehran Electricity Distribution Company, told reporters about the regulations New water tariffs He said: “According to the budget law, 1400 new water tariff regulations were submitted to the cabinet and this new regulation was approved in the previous meeting of the cabinet.”

He continued: “According to this regulation, the subscribers who consume according to the pattern, do not have any price increase; But subscribers whose water consumption is higher than the consumption pattern will face rising water consumption costs, so that their tariff rates will increase gradually.

Regarding the time of implementation of the new water tariff regulations, the Minister of Energy said: “This regulation will be implemented from the beginning of April 1401.”

He stated that this winter was the first winter in a row after several years without blackouts: “With the efforts and management that took place at various levels of the electricity industry and with the cooperation of other agencies, including the Ministry of Oil, we saw this success.” .

Mehrabian added: “Since the beginning of the people’s government, we have faced widespread blackouts during the summer of 1400, and the main reason was the lack of investment in electricity generation infrastructure and the serious gap between demand and electricity production in the country.”

The Minister of Energy stated that from the first days of the government’s activity, extensive plans to solve these problems were on the agenda of the Ministry of Energy, adding that the plans of the Ministry of Energy can be summarized in two axes; The first is the development of production capacities. In this regard, we planned for the summer peak of 1401, at least 6,000 MW of new electricity generation capacity to be put into operation, part of which has entered the circuit by today and the rest will enter the circuit by the summer of 1401. شد.

He stated that this morning one of these units, which was related to the Chabahar power plant, entered the circuit and was synchronized to the national electricity network, and emphasized: the other units will be completed one by one and will enter the circuit.

Mehrabian said that this increase of 6,000 MW is a historical record in the electricity industry, adding: “In recent years, we have witnessed a record of commissioning and operation of new power plant capacities of 4,000 MW.”

The Minister of Energy considered the second axis of electricity management in 1401 as using the existing capacities in the country’s electricity industry to manage demand and added: “One of our important tools is to install smart meters so that we can see the consumption that we have planned in this field.” High-consumption home subscribers, install smart meters, this work has begun and will continue next year.

He stated that a total of one hundred operational plans have been put on the agenda to reduce the electrical problems of the summer of 1401, which are in the two axes of increasing production capacity and demand management, adding that with the implementation of these plans, problems will be minimized.

Mehrabian said that Iran’s electricity network has been synchronized with almost all neighboring countries, adding: “Currently, we are trying to synchronize Iran’s electricity network with countries such as Qatar and Russia.”

He continued: “We have electrical exchanges with the countries whose electricity network is synchronized with their electricity network, so that we have electricity during export days and electricity import days;” With many neighboring countries, we have different peak power consumption times and in this regard, we can exchange electricity.

The Minister of Energy stated that on average during the year, the level of electricity exports is higher than the level of electricity imports, adding: “We have a serious plan for Russia, studies are being completed, recently a meeting with the Russian Minister of Energy and Minister of Energy We had Azerbaijan, so that in the shortest possible time, we could synchronize the electricity networks of Iran and Russia.

System 121 of the Greater Tehran Power Distribution Company has been established since 2007 (independence of distribution companies) with the aim of addressing blackouts caused by accidents and public requests, including providing or correcting street lighting and eliminating unsafe areas, and with about 40 personnel in three The shift responds to about 10,000 to 12,000 people 24 hours a day.

The observatory (follow-up office) of the Greater Tehran Electricity Distribution Company is also responsible for following up on long-term blackouts and overdue public requests with the aim of improving services. It is also the responsibility of the company to inform the managers of the problems in the field of blackouts and accidents and to follow up.

According to this report, the Greater Tehran Power Distribution Control and Management Center in the form of a control center, a headquarters dispatch center, 6 control centers and 4 dispatching affairs that are scattered throughout Tehran with 150 staff and 250 operational forces. Controls, directs and monitors the medium pressure network. The center is responsible for controlling the peak of 4500 MW in the summer season.