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Electricity Blackouts in Iran Increasing
For average Iranians, recent electricity cuts are a reminder of the severe energy shortages they endured for almost a decade after the 1979 Islamic revolution...In the 1980s [during the Iraq-Iran war], power cuts were accepted as part of daily life, but now Iranians question how record oil revenues, which amounted to $54bn for the first half of this year, can have such little impact on their living standards... The government [which owns and operates all electrical plants] blames drought as the main reason for the power shortages, but experts reject this claim and argue that 90 per cent of about 38,000MW of electricity [some of these plants operate only sporadically because of lack of parts, execution of managers by mullahs, etc.] is generated in thermal power plants, not hydro-electric ones. Posted by: mhw 2008-08-11 |
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