The Sustainable Development Strategies for Energy Sector in Iran

Sustainable development at the new field of politics, culture, environment, economy, trade, and the rights of humans, calls to consideration. Sustainable economic means to maintain and promote the current economic situation, without suffering degradation of natural resources. In this regard economic activity should cause the growth of community justice and efficiency. Relying on the definition provided by the WECD, two mainstreams sustainable development in energy consumption is specified: the use of renewable energy resources and energy efficiency improvement. In this study, at first some aspect of sustainability will be discussed and then the energy consumption in different parts of the Iranian economy is reviewed, in order that, the outlook has made it clear that the concepts of sustainable development and energy enables us to diagnose the current state of sustainability in energy use in Iran. In this way, the possibility of providing policy advice on sustainability in energy use has been provided. Finally, by introducing tax on energy consumption, we are going to calculate a tax path to maintain energy consumption on sustainable development pattern.