Knowledge-Based Firm to Build Largest Solar Power Plant in Iran
“The first solar power plant of the private sector with the capacity to produce 100 megawatts of electricity was built in the city of Mahalat (in Central Iran) and put into operation by our company,” Mahnaz Toutounchian, the sales manager of the Iranian knowledge-based company, told ANA.
“Since the production capacity of the company's solar panels was 300 to 400 watts and was suitable for the needs of small-scale power plants, i.e. home, office and other sectors, we started selling these products,” she added.
Toutounchian noted that recently, a solar panel with a production capacity of 1,800 megawatts has been designed and built by the company’s experts which are suitable for large-scale power plants in terms of production power and output.
“The largest solar power plant of a steel industry with a production capacity of 600 megawatts is one of the new measures being adopted by our company,” she added.
The head of Iran’s specialized training group of renewable energies and electricity efficiency (Satba) announced 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.
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