TEHRAN - Head of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Dispatching Department Saeed Aghili has said gas supply to the country’s power plants increased by 11 percent in the previous Iranian calendar year (ended on March 19) compared to the year before.

According to Aghili, the NIGC supplied 79 billion cubic meters of natural gas to the power plants across the country in the previous year, IRNA reported.

He put the country’s total gas consumption in the previous year at 249 billion cubic meters, which was also 7.0 billion cubic meters more than the figure for a year earlier.

Based on the data released by the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC), the company has also supplied more than $3.8 billion worth of liquid fuel for the power plants over the past 2.5 years.

As reported, during the mentioned period, 3.6 million liters of gas oil and 2.5 million liters of fuel oil were supplied to 110 power plants across the country.

Back in September 2023, NIGC Head Majid Chegeni said the cumulative gas supply to the country’s power plants in the first six months of the previous Iranian calendar year (March 21-September 22, 2023) increased by 16 percent compared to last year’s same period, registering a new record high.

According to Chegeni, due to the increase in gas supply in the mentioned period, the consumption of liquid fuel in the power plants significantly decreased which resulted in less air pollution.

Mentioning NIGC programs for the gas supply in the cold season, the official said: “We hope that with the measures taken in various sectors from production and distribution to transmission, we will successfully pass this winter as well as last year.”

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