BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 18. Iran's renewable energy electricity production potential has risen by 400 megawatts over the past seven months, Iran’s Energy Minister Abbas Aliabadi, told reporters, Trend reports.
He noted that on average, the country added about 57 megawatt-hours of renewable electricity generation capacity each month.
Aliabadi further stated that if the same growth in renewable energy potential had occurred over the past 20 years as it has in the past seven months, Iran’s renewable electricity production would have exceeded 6,000 megawatts by now.
The minister added that Iran's current renewable energy electricity production potential exceeds 1,600 megawatts.
Iran's electricity production potential previously stood at 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 1,450 megawatts, the production potential of the Bushehr nuclear power plant is 1,020 megawatts, and the production potential of diesel units is 408 megawatts.
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