Iranian Scientists Indigenize High-Megawatt Solar Inverters

The Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research had earlier achieved success in acquiring the know-how of designing and producing various types of electrical converters for use in chargers and industrial inverters, medium voltage drives and the propulsion system of subway trains.

For the first time in the country, the Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research of Iran University of Science and Technology put the design and production of high power solar inverters on agenda, and it was able to provide the Iran’s needs by indigenizing the production technology of high megawatt solar inverters.

The head of Iran’s specialized training group of renewable energies and electricity efficiency (Satba) said in January that potentials exist in the country to supply materials needed for production of 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.

4155/v