According to TAVANIR, this program called “Power of Hope”, was aimed to change the attitudes of household consumers towards the proper use of energy resources and consequently protect the environment.

The Energy Ministry started the implementation of the mentioned program in mid-August 2020.

In late August 2020, Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian had announced that the Power of Hope program was expected to reduce the country’s electricity consumption by 10 percent.

“This program will be implemented to both reward low-consuming subscribers and to encourage others to consume less and it is expected to reduce power consumption by 10 percent,” Ardakanian said in a press conference on the occasion of the Government Week (August 23-29, 2020).

The minister noted that according to a cabinet decision, all the subscribers that cooperated well with the Energy Ministry’s consumption management programs this summer are to be awarded.

“To do so, home subscribers were divided into three categories, which include low-consumers, normal-consumers, and high-consumers,” he said.

He noted that two programs have been prepared for high-consuming subscribers so that by implementing these plans, these subscribers would also join the low-consumer group.

The official described the first program as a training course to teach consumption management methods with the help of knowledge-based companies and start-ups, and said: “Start-up companies will be formed in this field and will help us optimize the consumption of high-consuming subscribers by providing simple solutions.”

The second plan is to install solar panels on the roofs of high-consuming subscribers’ houses so that such subscribers would meet their electricity needs by installing these PV stations, Ardakanian explained.

Managing electricity consumption by various sectors including households, agriculture, and industry, and reducing the consumption of fossil fuels used by power plants has become one of the major priorities for the government in recent years.

Earlier, the Energy Ministry Spokesman for the electricity sector Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi had told Tehran Times that the ministry’s specialists and experts defined different packages for different sectors to manage the country’s electricity consumption.

Rajabi Mashhadi said that since the households account for the majority of the electricity consumption, the main part of the Energy Ministry’s program was focused on encouraging the households in metropolitan areas like Tehran to reduce their consumption in peak hours.

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According to the report, the energy ministry has foreseen an 8000MW power shortage at the peak consumption periods in the next summer for which they intend to compensate by adding new thermal, hydroelectric and renewable power plants along with managing consumption.

Iran also plans to add 598 MW of new renewable power plants to the country’s current 650MW by the mentioned date.

The country’s current nominal power capacity is near 80,000MW of which the share of hydroelectric power plants is 19.87 percent while gas power plants generate 31.41 percent of the country’s total electricity, the share of combined cycle power plants is 29.48 percent, hydroelectric power plants account for 15 percent of the total capacity, while the share of dispersed generation units is 1.62 percent and finally the renewable power plants account only for 0.79 percent of Iran’s total power generation capacity.

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As planned, 102.4 megawatts capacity of wind power plants, 437 megawatts of solar power plants, 14.4 megawatts of biomass plants, 32.6 megawatts of small hydroelectric power plants, as well as 11.4 megawatts of waste heat recovery plants will be constructed within the mentioned time span, adding 598 megawatts of new capacity to the country’s current power generation capacity.

Earlier this month, Iran’s Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said the country’s renewable capacity is going to reach 1100MW by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2019).

Of the country’s current active renewable power plants 65 units are big-scale power plants while over 2000 small-scale ones comprise the rest.

Overall, in the next five years, Iran is aiming for a 5,000 MW increase in renewable capacity to meet growing domestic demand and expand its presence in the regional electricity market.

Renewables, including hydropower, account for just six percent of energy generation, versus natural gas’ 90 percent share.

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