Iran aims for single-digit power waste percentage
Iran's power sector suffers heavenly from three problems - gas fuel shortage, low efficiency of power plants as well as huge amount of electricity waste during the distribution process. The country has increased gas delivers to power plant by more than 20 billion cubic meters since 2013. Currently the share of natural gas fuel in power generation is above 82 percent, compared to 56 percent 3 years ago. However, the country still needs another 20 billion cubic meters of gas to curb the liquid fuel burning in power plants, which shares about 40 percent in CO2 emissions in Iran. The other problem of Iran's electricity sector is the low efficiency of power plants, which stands at 37 percent on average. Last decade, Iran decided to convert the thermal power plants to combined-cycle types, with above 45 percent efficiency, but the share of combined-cycle power plants in the country's total electricity production has remained unchanged at 25 percent during the last several