Iran reports major rise in household demand for natural gas
Iran has reported a major increase in demand for natural gas by households amid a cold snap that has affected many parts of the country, forcing authorities to restrict the supply of gas to power plants and impose brief power cuts in various cities.
A senior official in the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) said that gas use by households and businesses in Iran had reached 417 million cubic meters (mcm) on Tuesday.
NIGC’s head of dispatching operations Moslem Rahmani said that Iranian households had consumed 368 mcm of gas on the same day in 2023, meaning that the demand had increased by 13.3% on a year-by-year basis.
He said the total gas demand in Iran, including the gas supplied to industries and power plants, reached 794 mcm on November 12.
The figures come days after the Iranian Energy Ministry ordered scheduled power cuts for households across the country because of restrictions on the use of toxic fuels and a shortage of gasoil feedstock in power plants.
Reports in the local media have suggested that the growing demand for natural gas in Iran’s household and business sectors has led to restrictions on the supply of gas in power plants.
Many power plants in Iran use natural gas as their main feedstock to generate electricity. In fact, the electricity sector is responsible for some 250 mcm per day, or nearly a third of the total gas demand in Iran.
However, power plants normally tap their supplies of gasoil in cold months of the year when household demand for natural gas hits record highs.
Those supplies have dwindled in recent months amid repair programs at gas refineries that affected the amount of natural gas delivered to power plants.
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