The Iranian Energy Ministry has issued permits for construction of 4 gigawatts (GW) of new solar power plants in the country. Energy Ministrys renewables department SATBA said on Sunday that building the new power plants will finish within the next two years. SATBA spokesman Jafar Mohammadnejad said the permits were issued after the government ...

MNA Iran's Basij Commander Brigadier General Gholam-Hossein Gheibparvar said that the force is going to establish 3,000 solar power plants across the country. We will start building 3,000 solar power plants [each] with 5KW capacity in this week, he said Sunday in a press conference dedicated to announcing the programs of the Basij week which starts ...

RNA Two Italian and Chinese companies will construct a solar power station in the city of Yazd, central Iran. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed on Sunday by Italian company Denikon and the Chinese Sionsteel on the occasion of the first anniversary of registering the historic city of Yazd on UNESCO World Heritage List. The MoU is ...

Financial Tribune- Phelan Energy Group, a South African solar power developer, has built a 10-megawatt solar plant in the city of Khusf, South Khorasan Province. The photovoltaic plant was built in cooperation with a local contractor in 67 days. The project was conducted with an investment of 14 million ($17.2 million) by the African company, the ...

Shiraz, Fars prov., Oct 8, IRNA Chancellor of Fars Azad University said that a South Korean company named KCT is to invest $600m in building a solar power plant in Fasa, Fars province. Hamzeh Sarouie told IRNA on Saturday that according to the contract, the Korean company is to construct a 200-mw solar power plant in partnership with Azad University ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) German company SOLARWATT GmbH, one of the pioneers of the solar industry, has plans to start projects in Iran by constructing a 30 megawatt solar power plant. Speaking to Tasnim, Abolfazl Mousavi Fazel, representative of SOLARWATT, said the company is applying for permission to build the plant as part of the German governments ...

Foreign investors continue to flock to the budding renewable energy market in Iran following a thaw in international relations with the Middle East country. The British Photovoltaic Association (BPVA) recently signed an agreement with the Renewable Energy Organization of Iran (SUNA) for the development of 1 GW of solar PV capacity in the Middle ...

Over the last few months several international companies have expressed plans to implement renewable energy project. Now, a German company is expected to become probably among the first international companies to set up renewable energy project in the Middle Eastern country. German company Planet in Green announced that is has been chosen by the ...

TEHRAN- The Italian company of Carlo Maresca S.p.A. is to build a 50-megawatt solar power plant on the southern Iranian island of Qeshm due to its signed agreement with the Qeshm Free Zone Organization, ISNA reported on Sunday. The deal was signed between Fabio Maresca, the chairman of the Italian company, and Hamidreza Momeni, the head of Qeshm Free ...