Renewable power plants with a total capacity of 13,000 megawatts are under construction in Iran, including a 780-megawatt plant being built in the southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province, an official said.

The founder of photovoltaic value chain production in Iran says the country will set a new record in the world by constructing of 4500 megawatts of solar power plant.

Iran’s energy ministry inked the contract for the construction of 4,000 megawatts of solar power plants with domestic investors on Monday.

Irans Ministry of Energy says capacity for using solar energy will increase in the country through a plan to encourage heavy consumers of electricity to take up rooftop panels. A ministry spokesman said on Thursday that the government would pay for the interest and other costs of the loans offered to households for setting up rooftop installations ...

MNA The capacity of Irans renewable power production has reached 825 megawatts, according to the data by Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization. The data also revealed that and the number is expected to double as other projects with a total capacity of 821 MW are under construction. The latest data released by the Energy Ministry ...

Press TV - Iran dominated the Middle Easts renewable production capacity which rose 13 percent to 22,710 megawatts (MW) last year, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) says. Iran accounted for 57 percent of the Middle Easts total in 2019 and 63 percent in 2018, the agency said in a report. Renewables accounted for 26 percent of total ...

Financial Tribune - The International Energy Agency has predicted that the world will add 1,200 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2024, a 50% increase on whats in place now. That would see renewables share of global power generation rise to 30% by 2024 from 26% today. But for now that seems to be a tall order, mainly due to the rapidly spreading ...

Financial Tribune - Gas-powered power plants generate over 80% of Irans electricity and if there are problems with natural gas supplies to these units there will be power outages. This issue can and should be addressed with the help of renewables as a viable alternative to sustain electricity supply because green energy does not need gas or other ...

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 ...

Financial Tribune - Ministry of Energy has recently called authorized crypto miners to set up their own renewable energy at farm levels, allowing miners to use the national grid as a backup when renewable output is low. In a new measure, Iran's Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization (SATBA) announced that it would purchase the excess ...

Financial Tribune - Renewable energy sources in Iran generated over 4.3 billion kilowatt hours of electricity since 2009. If the same amount was produced by thermal power plants that consume gas as feedstock, 1.23 billion cubic meters of gas would be burnt, ILNA reported. Producing electricity from green sources has helped the country reduce ...

Financial Tribune - The guaranteed purchase price paid by the government for renewable power generated by private companies has, on average, increased by 65%. A new directive to raise tariffs (for the private sector producers) was announced by Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian the minister on October 13 to encourage investment, the Renewable Energy ...

Financial Tribune - The gradual expansion of green energy since 2009 has helped Iran save close to 800 million liters of water in 10 years. Over the last decade close to 3.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity was generated from renewable sources like wind farms and photovoltaic (PV) stations. For producing the same amount of power with natural ...

Financial Tribune - When thermal and combined-cycle power plants cannot meet the high electricity demand during the peak hours of summer when the temperature and consumption both shoot up, renewables can help generate the required electricity, a board member of Iran Renewable Energy Association said. Irans renewable power production capacity has ...

Financial Tribune - The gradual expansion of renewable energy since 2009 has allowed Iran to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 2.24 million tons. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is among the major challenges nations big and small are grappling with to various degrees. Greenhouse gases are capable of trapping the earth's emitted ...

Financial Tribune - Iran has taken baby steps in expanding renewable energy and its development requires changing the economic policies and creating a lively market so that it can compete with polluting fossil fuels, which produce the lions share of energy in Iran, head of the Energy Research Institute said Tuesday. Speaking at the seventh International ...

Tehran Times - Currently over 3,200 rooftop photovoltaic power stations (known as PV systems) are operational across Iran, the portal of Iranian Energy Ministry (known as PAVEN) reported on Sunday quoting an energy official. According to the Director General of Irans Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization (known as SATBA) regulatory office,...

Tehran Times - The capacity of generating electricity from renewable resources has reached 700 megawatts (MW) in Iran, IRNA reported on Tuesday quoting a renewables official. According to Seyed Mohammad Sadeqzadeh, the head of Irans Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization (known as SATBA), the energy ministry plans to add between 300MW ...

IRNA - Iran produced more than three billion kilowatts of power from renewable energy sources over past 10 years as the country moves to cut down on its carbon emission. The country generated 3.011 billion kilowatts per hour of electricity from renewable resources since late June 2009 until April 20, 2019, according to the Ministry of Energy (MOE)....

IRNA Deputy Energy Minister Mohammad Sadeqzadeh said on Thursday that approximately all the equipment for generating renewable energy are produced inside the country. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the 11th Iran International Renewable Energy, Lighting and Energy Saving Exhibition (February 21-24), he said domestic producers will be ...