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| Iranians told to save energy or face loadshedding |
| 2008-06-23 |
| Iranians on Saturday were told to cut their electricity consumption by 10 per cent or face daily power cuts because of a severe drought and low production by hydroelectric power plants. Residents of the capital Tehran could face up to four hours of blackouts each day, officials said according to media reports. “If consumers do not cut down consumption by 10 per cent, we will have blackouts until the end of the summer,” Deputy Energy Minister Mohammad Ahmadian told Fars news agency. Newspapers published a table issued by the state electricity company dividing the sprawling capital of 12 million into 11 zones, with each area to face two-hour-long power cuts twice a day from Saturday. Ahmadian told state television that the table was provisional, and that blackouts were most likely to hit the zones where consumers failed to save energy. Energy Minister Parviz Fattah warned in May that Iran would face severe electricity shortages and power cuts this summer due to “the drought and the lack of water” in dams. Energy officials have predicted that daily consumption would reach 37,000 megawatts in July while production would stand at only 35,000 megawatts. In the past weeks Tehran and other cities have already been hit by cuts of up to three hours in certain areas as the authorities seek to make up the shortfall. Blackouts were common in Iran during the 1980-1988 war with Iraq but in the 1990s Iran made significant investments in power generation to meet ever-increasing consumption. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Wait!!! Isnt' all of that radioactive stuff they are whipping up in those undergroung bunkers supposed to be for their power generation. An electrical power shortage should give some credence to ole Baradei that the Iranians are building a bomb??? Wait, he's one of them!!! |
| Posted by: James Carville 2008-06-23 20:09 |
| #5 Positive and sustainable GDP is inexorably linked to increased electric demand and supply. It is a well proven econometric used by utility planners in strategic assessments of new supply whether new build, repowering, purchasing, etc. Enviromentalists cannot have it both ways (i.e. electric car technology will go no where without a significant increase in baseload powerplants which means coal or nuclear). |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2008-06-23 13:50 |
| #4 There is some decline in use happening in the U.S. due to small changes like increased use of compact fluorescent lightbulbs, turning off the bloody computer when not actually using it, running the dishwasher between 8 pm and 8 am, things like that. Also, my local energy company (Duke, if anyone wants that detail) sent out a notice requesting permission to reduce power to my house air conditioner compressor a few minutes per hour when electricity demand peaks. If even a significant minority of customers agreed to this, that will make a difference. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-06-23 10:51 |
| #3 Give me one JDAM and I could decrease their power production well below 35,000 MWatts. Nuclear facilities here in the states have some pretty serious looking power feeds going into them, I can only assume that nuclear enrichment and separation takes massive amounts of energy. That might be a good place to start. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-06-23 09:34 |
| #2 if they quit separating U-235 they would have a lot more power. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-06-23 05:59 |
| #1 Facing the same thing here due to reductionin oil production, hydro decreasing due to dams beign tornn down and new ones prevented by enviros, and also new plants being entangled in red tape and lawsuits from enviros. Look for brownouts and blackouts in 201o-2012 thanks to us being at capacity - due to NIMBYS for conventional plants, enviros for coal, and anti-nuke morons for nuclear plants. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-06-23 01:28 |