this as a response to the energy crisis they are going through.
Not an energy crisis, just the possibility of a sudden spike in electricity usage due to heat season.
For years the country has heavily subsidized its electricity production, which has led to extremely low prices. He says this has now become unsustainable.
The problem isn't the low electricity price ($0.0018 per KWH) but the fact that usage has been increasing a lot faster than the capacity increase was. No matter how many fossil fuel power plants, nuclear power plants, renewable energy plants (hydro/wind/sun), etc. were built over the past year it could not keep up with the consumption increase.
What matters the most is to find out how much % of the whole hashrate was coming from Iran. I would say 1% at max?
Since there is no trusted stats were ever released we can't know that for sure. But last year I did a calculation based on the amount of bitcoin that was mined in Iran and the taxes that were paid with it and I came up with a percentage around 10% of the total hashrate. I don't have the stats for this year though.
That also doesn't account for home miners that are mining bitcoin at home without any license or taxes. This is only for mining farms with a license that have to pay tax.