EghtesadOnline: Electricity wastage in the national grid is planned to decline and reach 9% in the next four years from the current rate of 10.9%, a deputy energy minister said on Wednesday.

EghtesadOnline: Reducing electricity wastage in the national power grid and promoting prudent consumption can help tackle the country's occasional power shortage, a deputy at Iran Power Generation, Distribution and Transmission Company said.

EghtesadOnline: In line with plans to fight illegal electricity use and renovate national power grid to minimize outages, electricity wastage in the national grid has been cut to 10.7% from 15.2% in less than three years, a deputy energy minister said.

EghtesadOnline: Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian says his ministry is doing all it can to reduce electricity wastage in the national grid to less than 10% in the present fiscal year that ends in March 2018.