Tehran, Iran, Feb. 27
By Kamyar Eghbalnejad – Trend:
Iran’s Sirjan Green Energy Generation is planning to install a 25-megawatt (MW) plant for generating power from solar energy in southern city of Bushehr in collaboration with Germany’s Heckert Solar.
Mehdi Teymouri, the head of Sirjan Green Energy Generation, has told Trend that the project is expected to be launched within the coming months.
The construction of the project would begin in late March and the German company will provide the required equipment for the project.
In the meantime, Sirjan Green Energy Generation and another German company will launch the joint production of pillars for the solar panels in Iran.
About 40 percent of the output will be domestically consumed and the rest will be exported.
According to the Iranian energy ministry, Iran's power plants generated over 286.891 TWh (terawatt hours) of electricity since the beginning of the current Iranian fiscal year (March 21, 2017) until Feb. 16.
Nominal electric generation capacities of hydroelectric plants (11,811 MW) and Bushehr nuclear power plant (1020 MW) are equal to 15.1 and 1.3 percent of electric generation capacity, while the share of renewables stands at only 0.41 percent or 322 MW.
The country is expected to add 1,249 MW to its electric generation capacity by March 2018 - of that 632 MW will be renewables’ share.