Why can we hope for a stable electricity supply this summer?
According to the economic correspondent of Fars News Agency, last summer was not only due to its excessive heat, which caused problems for the people, but also caused power outages.Most People’s needs, such as opening the electric door of an apartment or parking lot, also face widespread problems.
The experience of the summer of 1400 and the power outage is one of the things that worries people about the supply of this energy carrier in the coming summer, especially since, according to reports from the electricity industry, power imbalance due to significant growth in consumption could grow by 36%. .
Due to concerns about the rights of the people, the review of activities on the agenda of the Ministry of Energy indicates the multiplicity of programs installed to reduce the problems of the people at the peak of the burden, and also some of the activities of the previous government. On this basis, it seems that the hope of passing without a major power outage in the summer of 1400 is not unexpected.
* The record of power plant construction in the world is broken by Iranian experts
A closer look at the Ministry of Energy’s plans reveals that the people’s government has focused its activities on two areas: supply promotion as well as demand management.
The government’s first plan to improve supply is to increase the construction of power plants by 6,000 megawatts; This capacity build-up in the run-up to the peak of the winter season is an unprecedented move in the electricity industry and a world record in this area. In a way, the construction time of one of the power plant units in Semnan province is a record of fast constructionMost Power plants have attacked the world.
* Upgrade 1113 MW of power plants without relying on one liter of fuel
In addition to the plan to build 6,000 megawatts of power plants, the plan to improve the operational capacity of existing power plants without the use of fuel by 1113 megawatts was on the government’s agenda.
The power plant basic knowledge upgrade program for thermal power plants is generally divided into 6 sections, which include the installation of a gas turbine inlet air cooling system. mediaInstallation of gas turbine inlet air cooling system by wet compression method, upgrade of gas units by CT60 method and the like, upgrade of gas units by maptun + EMS method, upgrade of gas units by IGV + method and increase of HRSG cycle block production.
Based on this, out of 1113 MW of upgrade program that is to be put on the agenda before the summer of 1401, the upgrade process of 868 units has already started and 31.5% of the mentioned activities have been completed so far.
* All the power of the electricity industry comes to the fore in the summer
Another measure that caused widespread problems last year was the issue of not repairing the power plant. According to this, last year until this period, ie the beginning of spring, only 65% of the 90,000 MW repair program was completed, but this year, with the defined jihadist activity in this area, of the 100,000 MW power plant repair program, equivalent to 73.5%, was completed. it is arrived.
In the meantime, pay attention Special The repair of hydropower plants is also a significant point, where some units, which have been out of circuit for 2 years due to repair problems, will resume the power generation process this summer.
Under these circumstances, it is predicted that the electricity industry will enter the season for the first time in the last few years with all its power generation capacity Summer And use all energy supply capacity.
* 50% increase in the capacity of renewable power plants
In addition to the mentioned programs, the 55% expansion of the capacity of the country’s renewable power plants in the form of installing 500 MW of power plant units before the peak load of 1401 is on the agenda of the people’s government. In this regard, from the beginning of the renewables activity in the country, there was only 900 MW of nominal installed capacity of this sector in the country, and only in 9 months of government activity, 500 MW will be added to the previous installed capacity.
According to the latest information received from the country’s electricity industry, the physical progress of the development of 500 MW of renewable power plants in the country is currently estimated at 75%, despite the gap of 2.5 months to the peak load of 1401.
* Demand management is an essential element of government programs
In addition to activities related to increasing energy supply, demand management activities in the form of tariff change program and activities such as installing smart meters that can be disconnected and connected to all departments of the country is also on the government’s agenda.
Unlike in many parts of the world, only Iran and a few countries use a subsidy system to supply electricity, which allows for a significant reduction in the selling price of electricity relative to its cost price. In addition to causing heavy losses for the private and public sectors active in the electricity industry, this procedure provides the ground for reducing the value of energy to subscribers, and this issue leads to neglecting to improve the consumption pattern.
In this situation, the industrial subscriber has no incentive to improve the technology of production and reduce electricity consumption due to cheap energy, the household subscribers do not have a sense of the value of this basic commodity and some subscribers continue to use electricity regardless of savings.
When it comes to energy tariffs, it is important to know exactly what the problem is. According to the latest audit of the electricity industry, the cost of electricity has been calculated only by calculating the cost of energy conversion and without considering the cost of fuel equivalent to 192 tomans per kilowatt hour of energy. This is while the average electricity sales tariff for electricity subscribers is only 82 tomans per kilowatt hour.
In other words, according to audit data conducted in 1398, only 43% of the cost of energy conversion, regardless of the staggering cost of fuel, was done by electricity subscribers and the remaining 57% of this cost in the form of energy subsidies from the pocket of public utility to the pockets of mostly high-consumption subscribers. gone.
Such a tariff system has dealt a blow to the body of the country’s tariff system. According to the comparison between the turnover of a power plant unit in Iran and other parts of the world, the turnover of a power plant in Iran is due to the wrong tariff system of one twenty-fourth of a power plant in other parts of the world.
In such circumstances, a change in the tariff system is a necessary condition for reviving the electricity industry and preventing losses to the electricity industry.
In this regard, in the cabinet meeting chaired by Ayatollah Ra’isi, President, according to the task of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, a change in the electricity tariff system was on the government’s agenda and this issue was implemented from the beginning of February with the aim of restoring justice in the field of energy subsidies.
* Network connection enhances network reliability
In addition to the Ministry of Energy’s program in the field of energy supply and demand, connection to the electricity network of countries in the region and increasing network reliability are other programs of the Ministry of Energy to reduce people’s problems in the summer.
Accordingly, on the sidelines of the Iranian delegation in Qatar, a cooperation document was recently signed between Iran and its southern neighbor in connecting the two countries’ power grids. To be considered as the path of turning Iran into the energy hub of the region.
In addition to the news of the signing of the cooperation document of the maritime connection of the electricity network of Iran and Qatar, A.تصال The power grids of Iran, Russia and Azerbaijan, under the name of the Northern Iran Energy Corridor project, through a route called the “AIR” power connection line, are on the agenda of the three countries.
On this basis, the sum of the Ministry of Energy’s extensive plans, which are divided into 100 operational plans, in addition to saving the people, can provide hope to reduce the problems of the summer in the field of power outages.
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