Solar

• Geographical position of Iran makes most of the country (about 90%) to have enough sun to generate solar power 300 days a year. [Wikipedia]
• Average annual Irradiation on Iran is 1,600 to 2,200 KWh per square meter and as high as 2511 KWh/m²/Year in Yazd according to SolarGIS

 

Projects

• The Shiraz CSP power plant is situated near Shiraz. It became operational in 2008 and it has a capacity of 250 KW and it is currently being upgraded to 500KW capacity as a R&D project done by University of Shiraz.
• The Yazd “ISCC Yazd” came into operation in 2010 with a capacity of 17MWe. The design and research has been done by Fichtner Solar Company and Iranian Electric Power Research Center (named NIROO Research Institute).

• Street lighting and traffic lights are powered by PV solar systems in Tehran and some other major cities.
• Some other major projects have been done in Iran for water heaters and electrification of rural areas.