Official Underlines Iran's Potential to Supply Materials Needed for Producing Solar Panels
“Due to the existence of mines with a total capacity of 80 million tons of silicon materials across the country, Iran can become one of the key players in production of the main sources for making solar panels,” said Behrouz Dashti.
“Of course, in addition to silicon mines to build solar power plants, other main and important equipment like solar inverters, structures, cables, etc. are also needed and we need a lot of infrastructure that should be created and developed in the country over time,” he added.
Dashti also announced compilation of the document of the national technology development program for the value chain of silicon-based solar power generation systems to determine the tasks of different institutions to produce 8,000 megawatts of solar power in the next five years.
Earlier reports, in September, also said that the Iranian government had plans to supply the country’s nomads with 220,000 solar panels in two years to generate electricity.
“30,000 out of 251,000 nomadic households have solar panels,” Siavash Ahmadi Mirqa’ed, the head of Nomadic Affairs Organization of Iran, told ANA.
“The President recently issued a decree that the Ministry of Energy should provide 220,000 solar panels to the nomads in two years so that they can benefit from electricity,” he added.
Ahmadi Mirqa’ed also pointed out that increasing the productivity of livestock is a field in which technical know-how is effective, adding, “We started with scientific research centers so that these centers can boost the productivity of livestock by presenting and transferring scientific materials to the nomads.”
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