Iran’s solar power production up 62% y/y in Apr-Dec
Iran has reported a significant increase in solar electricity generation as part of its broader push to expand the share of renewables in the national energy mix.
A Sunday report by the official IRNA news agency said Iranian solar power plants generated 1.658 gigawatts (GW) of electricity in the nine calendar months to December 21.
The report said that this figure represented a 62% year on year increase for the April-December period.
The semi-official ISNA news agency also reported on Sunday that Iran’s solar power plants reached a real time peak output of 1.374 GW at 12:10 a.m. local time on January 5, marking the highest instantaneous solar production recorded in the country to date.
According to the report, solar output accounted for around 3% of total electricity generation in Iran on that day.
IRNA said that total renewable electricity production reached 2.759 GW in the nine months to late December, an increase of 21% compared with the same period last year.
The breakdown included 0.869 GW from wind farms, 0.18 GW from small hydroelectric plants, and 0.055 GW from expansion turbines and biofuel resources.
Figures released earlier this week by the Iranian Energy Ministry’s renewables department indicated that Iran’s total installed renewable energy capacity had reached 3.165 GW, with plans to expand capacity to 5 GW by the end of the current Iranian calendar year in late March.
Iranian Energy Ministry projections indicate that the country’s renewable capacity could expand by as much as nine times over the next three years, potentially reaching close to 30 GW, depending on project implementation and financing.
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