Tehran: The Iranian president who came out offered a rare apology on Tuesday for the most severe summer power blackouts in this country in recent memories, as Blackouts Cripple Business and Darken Homes for hours a day.
In a government meeting which was broadcast live on state TV, President Hassan Rouhani acknowledged that chronic power outages during the past week had caused Iran “a lot of pain” and stated the contribution in an extraordinary personal speech.
“My apology to loved ones who face this problem and pain,” he said.
In the past few days, regular blackouts have spread chaos and confusion in the streets of the capital, Tehran and other cities, knock down traffic lights, turn off the factory, disrupt telecommunications and affect the metro system.
Some cities in North Iran report limited access to water because power outages affect pipe supply.
Traffic police in the capital said the sudden power outage had surprised officials.
Rolling blackouts have given Rouhani, a relatively moderate who handed over control of the president of the Ebrahim Hard-line Relision in August, one of the last domestic headaches from his presidency.
Footage on social media, widely distributed by Farsi-based news channels based on foreigners, showed popular anger over blackouts to open, swelling into protests spread across local electricity offices and gathered on paralyzed roads.
In some videos, anti-government songs echoed from a dark high increase.
Associated Press cannot verify the authenticity of the recording.
Officials have blamed their blackouts in the heat that strangled the country, increasing the demand for electricity and deepening of deepening that had threatened to breathe hydropower plants.
The temperature has surged to more than 41 ° C (106 degrees Fahrenheit) in Tehran and other major cities.
In the southern desert country, the temperature has reached 50 ° C (122 degrees Fahrenheit).
It encourages electrical demand to new heights, because Iran exerts heavy duty air conditioners against heat, exceeds the electricity network.
Officials have responded with blackouts scheduled several times a day.
Power demand has peaked in the last few days at 66,000 megawatts, surpassing the capacity of a practical plant of 65,000 megawatts.
The company can actually provide people with even less electricity, closer to 55,000 megawatts in most of the aging, sanction electricity infrastructure achieving a susceptible power plant against repetitive technical failures.
Last month, Iran’s single nuclear power plant underwent an emergency shutdown that had never happened before.
Facilities in the south port city of Bushehr returned online during the weekend after engineers said they were repairing a broken generator.
Electricity facilities have not been well maintained, and lack of spare parts has complicated the construction of a new plant to follow the country’s runaway growth.
Over the past two decades, simple apartment blocks and local markets have become high, housing complexes, and colossal shopping centers all humming with air conditioning.
While the power outages during the sharp summer heat occurred sporadically in Iran, the lack of rainfall recently added to the country’s electricity problems.
Rouhani said the precipitation had decreased by almost 50% last year, leaving dam with reduced water equipment to trigger the country.
The hydroelectric power plant has dropped to 7,000 megawatts, said Rouhani, down from an average estimate of 12,000 megawatts in recent years.
“When it becomes warm during drought, we face problems at the time of the peak (energy demand),” Rouheri added.
“(Power OUTAGES) seriously affects people, businesses, factories and hospitals.” Officials have suggested that every relief far away.
“This is not limited to one day,” said Mostafa Nakhai, spokesman for the Iranian Parliamentary Energy Committee.
“We will have this situation at least for a month or more.”