RoydadNaft –  Iran’s Deputy Minister of Energy for Electricity and Energy Affairs announced that electricity supplied to the country’s petrochemical plants has increased sixfold compared with last year to keep production running.

According to Roydad Naft, Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi, Deputy Minister of Energy for Electricity and Energy Affairs and spokesperson for Iran’s electricity industry, made the remarks on the sidelines of a series of specialized meetings at the 21st Shahid Rajaei Festival. Describing the shift in management approach, he said: “The Shahid Rajaei Festival is no longer merely an administrative process. It has become a competitive arena that converts many past descriptive performance measures into quantitative, measurable and comparable indicators, pushing managers toward higher productivity.”

Rajabi Mashhadi stressed that the competitive and interactive environment created by the festival has a positive impact on improving the performance of executive bodies. He added that managers know the festival’s evaluation indicators affect their organizations’ rankings, which motivates them to improve the indicators, seek feedback from their teams and enhance overall performance.

Explaining the role of the electricity sector in these evaluations, he said: “Given the realities of energy imbalance, consumption management has become a critical component in assessing the performance of government agencies. We have learned that for grid stability, decisions must be based on accurate data rather than general narratives.”

Referring to the difficult conditions of the grid this year, the deputy minister continued: “When more than 2,000 points on the network are damaged and 3,400 megawatts of state-owned power plant capacity suffer operational interruptions, traditional management is no longer adequate. Relying on this data-driven approach, we not only kept the grid standing but also succeeded in delivering 14 percent more energy to the country’s industries and increased the volume of electricity supplied to petrochemical plants sixfold compared with last year so that the wheels of production would not stop.”

Presenting figures on infrastructure development, he announced a “capacity leap” in renewable energy, stating that solar power plant capacity has risen from 1,250 megawatts at the beginning of the current administration to around 5,800 megawatts — a 4.6-fold increase.

He added that in addition to the arrival of 3,000 megawatts of new capacity, 500 megawatts from older power plants have also returned to the generation cycle and joined the grid after rehabilitation and upgrading.