Iran renewable power

EghtesadOnline: The government has developed several renewable power projects as well as 12 initiatives to produce electricity from fuel cells as part of efforts to raise the trifling share of renewables in the energy mix.

EghtesadOnline: Iran expects its installed renewable power capacity barring hydropower to surpass 700 megawatts at the end of the current Persian year in March 2018.

EghtesadOnline: International investors are increasingly looking at Iran as a strong market for renewable power projects, Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian said on Friday, anticipating a "big leap" in the country's fledgling renewable industry in the next few years.

EghtesadOnline: Power production from renewables has experienced a three-fold rise since President Hassan Rouhani took office in mid-2013, Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian said on Thursday on the sidelines of a ceremony to inaugurate a 10 megawatt solar power plant in central Isfahan Province.

EghtesadOnline: Iran can transition to a fully renewable electricity system and financially benefit from it by 2030, according to researchers from Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) in Finland.

EghtesadOnline: Measures are being taken to generate 7,500 megawatts from solar, wind, geothermal and biomass renewable power plants by 2030 so that Iran can meet its obligations under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.