Potentials of energy conservation in industry sector of Iran

Panel: 3. Matching policies and drivers: Policies and directives to drive industrial efficiency

Authors:
Faraz Sojdei, Ministry of Petroleum, Iran
Nosratollah Sayfi, Dana Energy Sevices, Iran
Mohammad Eslami, Dana Energy Sevices, Iran

Abstract

Iran is one of the greatest resources of fossil energy in the world. Statistics shows that by having 589 bBOE Iran is the 3rd country for possessing fossil fuels (oil, gas and coal) in the world. From other side Iran by consumption of 229 MMBOE is in 11th place of consumers of primary energy in the world and by having GDP of 482 b$ US is in 26th place. This shows high energy intensity of this country. By comparing energy intensity of Iran between years 1999 to 2009 for supply of primary energy to GDP, it would be seen that energy intensity (without considering production losses) from 1.90 TPES/GDP in 1999 is reached to 1.97 TPES/GDP in year 2009 with a slight slope, which shows economic growth and development from one hand and failure in energy conservation on the other hand.

Based on Iran’s policies for “Rectification of Energy Consumption”, till 2016 energy intensity should be reduced 33% and till 2021 it should be reduced 50% compared to the energy intensity of the year 2011. In this way the cumulative energy saving in the country is estimated to reach around 6600 MMBOE which is approximately 4 times of the primary energy supplied to the country for year 2009. In this way Iran could avoid the threats of the energy consumption trends for the country. The end users of energy sequentially are: industries, buildings, transportation, and agriculture. With focus on the industry sector Iran has the potential of energy saving of 190 MMBOE/year.

In fact this potential could be an opportunity for development of Energy Service companies especially in the Industry sector. At the moment UNIDO is trying to utilize this potential through its UN-GEF program for implementing energy conservation programs in most energy intensive industries in Iran( Steel, Petrochemical plants, oil refineries, cement and brick industries and gas refineries) . This paper will review potentials of energy conservation in different Industry sectors of Iran.