BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 5. A total of 3.5 trillion rials (about $7.94 million) was spent on a solar power plant commissioned on October 29 in the Mahabad district of West Azerbaijan province in northwestern Iran, the statement of Iran's Energy Ministry said, Trend reports.
Private sector investment has built a 10-megawatt solar power plant that can produce about 16.3 million kilowatt-hours of electricity.
With the station's commissioning, we will save 5.64 million cubic meters of gas annually, prevent 13,700 tons of pollutants from polluting the environment, and save 4,370 tons of water.
The production potential of renewable energy power plants in the country increased to 1,347 megawatts with the commissioning of the mentioned plant. The solar power plants account for 835 megawatts of this total.
To note, Iran's electricity production potential is 93,455 megawatts. The production potential of Iran's thermal power plants is 76,257 megawatts, the production potential of hydroelectric power plants is 12,144 megawatts, the production potential of retail power plants is 2,485 megawatts, the production potential of renewable power plants is 1,300 megawatts, the production potential of the Bushehr nuclear power plant is 1,020 megawatts, and the production potential of diesel units is 408 megawatts.