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Oct 27, 2024 · The first phase of Iran''s largest photovoltaic solar power plant, Aftab-e-Sharq, with a capacity of 20 megawatts, was successfully synchronized with the national grid on October 21.
Iran officially inaugurated the country’s biggest solar power plant on August 27, 2014 in Malard—which is located in Centeral Alborz province (Fig. 15). The peak power of the plant is 190 MW h per year.
Iran now is the world’s 14th biggest of solar power plants. The country’s total potential for producing solar and wind energy is estimated to be around 40,000 GW h and 100,000 MW h . Electricity production in Iran was about 212.8 (billion kW h) and electricity consumption was 206.7 (billion kW h) in 2012 , .
Iran’s total area is around 1600,000 km 2 or 1.6×10 12 m 2 with about 300 clear sunny days in a year and an average 2200 kW-h solar radiation per square meter. Considering only 1% of the total area with 10% system efficiency for solar energy harness, about 9 million MW h of energy can be obtained in a day.
Iran has plan to install over 5 GW of new renewable energy capacity by the year 2018, enough to power as many as two million homes, 25 times what it is now. While a large portion of the new capacity will surely be via wind energy, 500 MW of it will be via solar energy, as the portion of funding has been set aside for solar already .
Potential of solar energy in Iran , . Moreover, the sunny hours of the four seasons are 700 h during spring, 1050 h during summer, 830 h during autumn and 500 h during winter. Although Iran’s solar potential is excellent, there was limited application to use this source of energy.
Today Iran ranks 19th of the largest producer and 20th of the largest consumer of electricity in the world. A research work conducted by the Ministry of Energy indicated that about 15,000–20,000 MW of capacity could be added to the existing capacity for the next 20 years , .
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