Reducing actual energy consumption is the basis for the optimization organization's support in the implementation plans. Ismail Saqeb Esfahani, vice president and head of the Energy Optimization and Strategic Management Organization, explained in a meeting with the members of the board of directors of the Iranian Renewable Energy Association, in the presence of some of the organization's deputies, the four axes of "consumption status", "energy subsidies", "identifying reasons and roots for previous development" and "how to implement research programs and previous roots", "46 cooperation managers. Pointing to the necessity of examining the gap between the current state of energy consumption and the goals of the Seventh Plan, he called for comparing Iran's indicators with neighboring countries with similar conditions and added: the real ability to reduce consumption and the way to achieve the goals of the plan must be determined through detailed studies and the separation of the consumption sectors. Sakev Asfhani also found it necessary to examine the way energy subsidies are allocated, the experience in implementing the subsidy targeting law, and the contribution of price and non-price factors in consumption, and emphasized: the totality of these factors must be examined in the short, medium and long term. Read the full text in the government database.