The share of renewable energy sources in electricity generation increases by 28%

TEHRAN – Electricity production from renewable sources increased by 28 percent in Iran’s third calendar month (ending June 20) compared with the same month last year, ISNA reported.

Renewable sources generated more than 230 million kilowatt-hours of electricity, an increase of 21 percent from the previous month.

Wind farms accounted for the largest share of the increase in electricity production from renewable sources.

The installed generating capacity of electricity from renewable sources is approximately 1.2 gigawatts.

According to data from the Ministry of Energy, renewable energy sources currently account for almost seven percent of the country’s total electricity generating capacity.

Solar power plants account for 44% of the country’s total renewable capacity, wind farms for 40%, and small hydroelectric power plants generate 13% of the total renewable capacity.

The head of Iran’s Organization for Nomad Affairs said in June that more than 20,000 sets of solar panels have been distributed among nomads in the country over the past 2.5 years, IRNA reported.

According to Shayan Naderi, the number of solar panel kits delivered to nomadic households across the country has increased from 700 kits in August 2021, when the current government took power, to 20,480 kits.

The project uses knowledge-based and indigenous technologies. The government bears 90 percent of the cost of each system. Solar panels are used to easily provide electricity to remote areas. It is not only clean but also cheap and unlimited.

Solar-powered photovoltaic panels convert sunlight into electricity by exciting electrons in silicon cells with photons of sunlight. It is the cleanest and most reliable form of renewable energy that can be used in several ways to generate electricity in addition to generating income.

In October 2019, the Ministry of Energy announced the implementation of a program to supply nomadic households with mobile, small-scale power plants.

The Planning and Budget Organization of Iran (PBO) signed a memorandum of understanding in November 2019 with the Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation and the Organization for the Mobilization of the Oppressed to build 20,000 photovoltaic power plants (known as PV systems) across the country.

According to PBO deputy director Hamid Pour-Mohammad, the project is part of a larger program that will build 20,000 photovoltaic systems for households in rural and nomadic areas in the first phase, and increase this number to 100,000 stations in subsequent phases.

The latest statistics published in the Statistical Review of the Global Energy report show that Iran generated 382.9 terawatts of electricity per hour in 2023, an increase of 4.3% compared to the previous year.

Iran generated over 367.1 terawatts of electricity per hour in 2022.

Iran’s electricity production growth in 2023 will be almost twice the average global electricity production growth.

The report estimates that total global electricity production in 2023 will be more than 29,924 terawatts per hour, which will be 2.5 percent higher than a year earlier.

The report added that by 2023, Iran’s electricity production will surpass that of industrialized countries such as the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain, as well as Turkey, Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand.