Financial Tribune - Renewable energy can lower demand for natural gas by diversifying energy supplies, a consultant to the Energy Ministrys Niroo Research Institute said. With more renewables less gas will be required to run thermal power plants, Hamid Chitchian was quoted as saying by IRNA. Not developing renewable energy projects will inflict ...

Tehran Times Iranian Energy Ministry has major plans to make use of flare gas burnt or vented in oil and gas facilities across the country, Press TV reported, quoting an official with the ministry as saying. Hamid Chitchian, a former minister who currently advises the government on energy issues, said on Wednesday that Iran was planning to economically ...

MNA In a meeting with his Tajik counterpart, Irans energy minister reported on holding a joint commission between the two countries in the months to come. During a meeting with Minister of Energy and Water Resources of the Republic of Tajikistan Usmonali Usmonzoda, Iranian Minister of Energy Hamid Chitchian expressed hope that a joint commission ...

IRNA � Iranian Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian attended a ceremony on Thursday, where the officials from a Swiss-German venture marked the completion of the Mokran Solar Power Complex in the Iranian southeastern province of Kerman.    

Tasnim Irans energy minister on Thursday inaugurated a project to build the Middle Easts largest solar plant in the countrys southeastern province of Kerman. Construction of the major power plant kicked off in an area between the cities of Kerman and Bam, in a ceremony attended by Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian. The project requires an ...

Press TV - On the orders of President Hassan Rouhani, Iran's Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian has visited Sistan-and-Baluchestan to address asomewhat insufferable situation in the wake of a record heatwave, which has hit the southeasternprovince. The province has witnessed temperatures of 56 C (132 F), which havecausedpower outages, and complicated ...

Azer News - In case Iran needs additional power in summer months, Azerbaijan will meet a part of this demand in accordance with the agreement reached, Iran's Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian toldAPA. Reminding that his countrys need for energy increases in summer months, the minister said that the matter is about 130 MW. Necessary infrastructure ...

Tasnim Iranian Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian said the countrys capacity to produce electricity from renewable energy resources would hit 7,500 megawatts in the next few years. Addressing the first-ever Iran-EU Business Forum on Sustainable Energy in Tehran on Saturday, Chitchian pointed to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in ...

February 26, The Iran Project Iran has agreed to develop a joint MoU with Italy on how to cooperate in the field of energy, water and wastewater. In a meeting with Italy's Minister of the Environment Gian Luca Galletti on Saturday, Iran's Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian referred to Iran-Italy's long history of diplomatic and economic relations,...

TASS- Trade turnover between Russia and Iran surged 70% year-on-year to $2.2 bln in 2016, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Monday at the meeting with his Iranian counterpart Hamid Chitchian. "The trade turnover was $2.2 bln in 2016; it grew by nearly $1 bln, by 70%," Novak said. Despite the positive dynamics, the current state ...

IFP- Five power plants of Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran went out of service on Saturday morning due to such climatic conditions as haze and extremely high humidity, leading to a power outage in major areas in the province. I thank people, and apologize to them for problems they are dealing with, said Hamid Chitchian, the Iranian Energy ...

MNA Hamedans first and countrys largest solar power plant has been unveiled by Minister of Energy Hamid Chitchian. The power plant, constructed in a track of land with an area of 10 hectares is located in Hamedan-Saveh highway, 44km from Hamedan near Qirkhlar village. Dubbed Persian Gulf, 7-mW solar power plant had been financed totally by foreign ...

IRNA Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian said that applications for foreign investment in Irans renewable energies to the tune of three billion dollars has been approved by the Finance Ministry. Addressing the inaugural ceremony of executive operations for the second cooling towers of Shahid Mofatteh Power Plant in Hamedan on Saturday, he added that ...

Tehran Times- After the removal of sanctions against Iran, once again the country has become an attractive market for the worlds renowned energy companies so that more than 10 billion worth of energy projects has been proposed by foreign companies, Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian said on Sunday. The minister made the remarks in a press conference ...

IFP- Despite all regulations against illegal consumption of well water, two-thirds of water supply is still harvested from wells, noted Hamid Chitchian, the Energy Minister of Iran, according to a Farsi report by ICANA. If we continue to suck up the groundwater like this, someday we will run out of it and no more groundwater will be left in deserts....

Shana Minister of Energy Hamid Chitchian says Iranian and Armenian private and government sectors should contribute to build up Iran-Armenia volume of trade and joint investment .Chitchian in an address to the closing session of the Iran-Armenia Joint Economic Commission session on Monday. He said volume of bilateral trade does not keep pace with ...

Press TV- Iran says it is considering a plan to reduce the water supplies that are consumed in farms and industrial plants and instead divert them to the urban sector a move that highlights concerns in Tehran over the implications of an unfolding water crisis in the country. Irans Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian was quoted by the domestic ...

MNA Irans Energy Minister HamidChitchian said the country as the owner of the largest fossil energy resources, plays a crucial role in providing global energy security. A day after Iran signed up to World Energy Charter on the sidelines of the 27th Meeting of the Energy Charter Conference in Tokyo, Irans Energy Minister HamidChitchian held talks ...

Press TV- The Iranian energy minister says Iran and Japan must make use of the atmosphere created after the implementation of last years landmark nuclear agreement between the Islamic Republic and six global powers to boost cooperation in the energy sector. Hamid Chitchian made the remarks in a meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida ...

  SHANA- Iranian Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian on Friday signed the document to join the World Energy Charter. Chitchian signed the document in a ceremony held on the sidelines of the 27th Meeting of the Energy Charter Conference with the presence of Secretary General of Energy Charter Secretariat Urban Rusnak and Japan Minister for Foreign ...