MNA � A team of Iranian researchers at a knowledge-based company for the very first time is working on design and construction of a 10MW solar plant in the country.


Mohammad Sadegh Niknam, the project manager, said his team is working on completing the design and construction of a solar power plant with 10MW electricity connected to the national grid.

�Under a 20-year contract, the government will buy the generated electricity by our solar power plant,� Niknam said, adding that the project is the first of its kind to be fully designed and constructed by an Iranian knowledge-based company.

�There are other megawatt power generation plants in Iran but those have been constructed by foreign designers and contractors,� he said, adding �accredited international institutions have guaranteed our project�s design and engineering standards.�

According to him, the project is currently underway and will be completed within nine months in Fars province.

�Some equipment such as the panel and inventor are foreign-built, but all steps of the designing and engineering of the plant have been done by Iranian experts,� Niknam said, while predicting that all equipment at Iranian power plants would be manufactured domestically in two years.