Iran'south challenge with the ever-increasing electricity consumption has reached new heights, leading the country to halt electricity exports.

Abuzer Salihi, general manager of Iran's electricity distribution company Tevanir, appear on state television that it has reduced electricity exports to zero "so that there is no problem in electricity supply in the land." He said that the electricity supply to Afghanistan's Herat province, which imported lxx% of its electricity from Iran, completely stopped in club to come across domestic needs.

Co-ordinate to the numbers shared by Tevanir, the daily electricity need reached over 65,000 megawatts, while production is around 54,000 megawatts. Aside from the summer heat, Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto mining activities in the land — known for its meaning electricity subsidies for the local industry — are listed every bit one cause of the loftier power demand.

Iran made crypto mining legal in 2019 to license and regulate miners within the country. Simply the state has also seen a spike in unlicensed mining activities, with many unlicensed miners using the residential electric grid to power upward energy-consuming mining rigs.

Iran's offset measure this year was to fine crypto miners using household free energy.

A ban on mining until the hot summertime months pass followed. Announced by President Hassan Rouhani in May, the crypto mining ban will terminal until September to ensure access to electricity for domestic consumption. Rouhani also claimed that 85% of the mining activity in Iran is unlicensed.

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As a last resort before halting electricity exports, the land also chosen on all legally operating crypto miners to stop their activities. Eshaq Jahangiri, the outset vice president of Islamic republic of iran under Rouhani, fabricated the announcement during a meeting with officials of the Ministry of Energy. "We will ensure that the electricity will not exist cutting off in essential and important places," he said.

Meanwhile, Iran continues its crackdown on illegal mining activities. Last month, regime confiscated more than than seven,000 mining rigs at a farm operating in the capital letter of Tehran