The president of the Iran Chamber of Guilds warned that the three provinces of Golestan, Mazandaran and North Khorasan will face an inevitable gas cutoff during peak consumption days.

According to the information website of the Iran Chamber of Guilds, Qasem Noudafarahani, in a meeting focused on energy, said that consumption management measures must be put on the agenda from now on.

He asked guild and industrial activists to reduce pressure on the gas distribution network through consumption management.

Abdollah Mehragan, a representative of the National Iranian Gas Company, explained in the same meeting that about 70% of the country’s gas is supplied from the south and transferred via transmission lines. He said that these three provinces, being at the ends of the transmission lines, are more exposed than other areas to gas outages in cold weather and during peak consumption.

He said that the use of alternative fuels in industrial towns and high-consumption guild units is necessary.