Iran’s power export growth pace slowing down
The pace of Iran’s power export growth is decreasing as the warm season pushed the domestic demand up. According to the latest weekly statistics, published by Iran's Energy Ministry, the country’s cumulative electricity exports increased during the three months of spring by 143%, 330% and 85% respectively to 2.363 terawatt-hours (TWh) at the end of season. However, the warm weather has slowed down the power export. Iran’s power demand increases in summer, mostly due to rising consumption in housing sector. Fiscal year, started March 21 Cumulative Exports Change Yearly Cumulative imports Change Yearly Cumulative generation 1st month 491 143% 379 -23% 22327 2nd month 1293 330% 741 -16% 45509 3rd month 2363 85% 1203 -8% 80235 Three weeks of 4th month 2991 56% 1458 -3% 102832 Based on Energy Ministry’s weekly reports (GWh) Iran also decreased electricity imports by 23 percent in the first month of s