Press TV - Iran energy officials say the capacity for electricity production from renewable sources would increase by five times to reach a target of 4,000 megawatts (MW) in the summer of 2021 when the current administrative government leaves office. The Ministry of Energy is determined to bring the output capacity of renewable energy to 4,000 MW ...

Financial Tribune - Fourteen renewable power stations with the capacity to generate 160 megawatts are ready to be connected to the national grid in seven provinces, head of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization (Satba), affiliated to the Energy Ministry said Tuesday. These include 13 photovoltaic power plants and one wind farm ...

MNA The capacity of Irans renewable power production has reached 724 megawatts and the number is expected to exceed 1,000 MW when the under-construction projects come on stream in the near future, according to the official website of the Energy Ministry. Several small- and large-scale renewable farms are under construction, which will add some ...

MNA Renewables are steadily gaining traction in Iran. The quest for a cleaner, greener and more self-sustaining future is now turning out to be quite a movement, though needing a harder push. Almost ten years have passed since the shift from fossil fuels to clean energies started in the country, while renewables have so far reached the meager amount ...

MNA Iran is set to build its largest-ever solar farm with a capacity as much as 1,000 megawatts in Markazi province, central Iran, a senior official said. Saeed Farrokhi, Markazi provinces deputy governor for economic affairs, said the photovoltaic power plant will be constructed over a 2,000-hectares area near the city of Saveh, turning it into ...

FNA - Iranian Deputy Energy Minister for Electricity and Energy Affairs Homayoun Ha'eri announced the country's plans to increase its capacity to generate 1,000MW of power from renewable energies by the end of the current Iranian year (started on March 21). "The capacity for generating power from renewable energies amounted to 500MW last year and ...

MNA The head of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization of Iran a state-owned entity also known as Satba announced the Energy Ministrys readiness for attracting foreign investors in the countrys renewable sector. Staba chief, Mohammad Sadeghzadeh, noted that the government welcomes foreign investments in the renewable ...

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 ...

Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian on Monday reiterated plans to build five photovoltaic power stations in the near future as part of declared national policy to boost electricity production from renewable sources to 7,500 megawatts by 2030. Speaking on the sidelines of a ceremony to inaugurate a 1MW solar plant in Arak, the capital of Markazi Province,...

TEHRAN, Iran On Sept. 10, Iran and Russia launched a project to add two new 1,000-megawatt (MW) reactors to the already existing 1,000-MW reactor at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in the southwest of the country. The operating plant was connected to Irans national grid in September 2011, following a long series of delays and technical problems, and ...

Tehran, March 3, IRNA Executive director of a Dutch company said on Thursday producing renewable energies is an issue of the day in world and Iran should be an active player side by side of world countries in this field. Herman Casper who was speaking with IRNA on Thursday, the last day of the 15th Tehran International Environment Exhibition, said ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iran is one of the regional countries which is a forerunner country in terms of renewable energies, said Indian Union Cabinet Minister for Women & Child Development Maneka Sanjay Gandhi. India has been moving forward for boosting renewable energies over last one and a half year and has replaced normal lamps with LED ones. She ...

Tehran, Jan 2, IRNA First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri underlined the need to using the renewable energies for the country. Planning for making use of the renewable energies is one of the remarkable solutions to confront the air pollution, Jahangiri said on Saturday, addressing the Economic Council Meeting. He recalled the destructive effects ...