Iran Press/ Iran news: Speaking in a meeting with Minister of Energy and the ministry’s deputies and managers on Monday, Hassan Rouhani said, “Water and power are two infrastructural and vital needs of the people. Air and oxygen is the first need of human beings, but maybe the second important thing is water.”
Describing water and power as things that bring security for the people, he continued, “While visiting the central power control of the country, I realized that great things have been done for balancing production and consumption,” Iran Press reported.
“The right way of water consumption and not wasting it is very important and the media should promote the right culture for water and power consumption,” Iranian president added.
Referring to the Supreme Leader’s remarks on right consumption of power, Rouhani added, “Managing water resources of the country should be based on continued drought and in doing so, the most important step is to minimize wasting water and power.”
According to the Iranian president, electricity loss in the power system of the country has decreased to 11 per cent from 15 per cent.
The President also said, “This is very important and we need to put decreasing the loss in water and power industry top in the priority list to reduce the amount to a single-digit figure.”
On the role of the state media and other media in promoting the right way of consumption, he said, “In the peak hours, we have to consume lesser”.
“Smart systems can help our country save more power, so we can offer incentives to houses to encourage people to use smart systems,” he continued.
Earlier on December 18, Deputy Energy Minister Seyyed Mohammad Sadeqzadeh announced the country's plans to install thousands of small solar power plants in areas which suffer drought.
Installation of 3,000 solar power plants will help the country meets its needs to electricity and will provide 3,000 families with revenues.
Iran's capacity of installed renewables has reached 670 megawatts, with 445 megawatts of renewable power plants still under construction, according to Ministry of Energy. 101
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