Renewable Energy in Islamic Republic Of Iran

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Renewable Energy in Islamic Republic Of Iran

• Ministry Of Energy of IR IRAN
• To be presented at
• Renewable Energy 2006
• 9-13 October 2006
• Makuhari Messe
• Chiba , Japan

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Why Renewable Energy?

• Although Iran is a main oil producing
  country, due to
• following reasons, RE is important
• To be in line with the world efforts to curb the
  world environmental problems
• To improve energy accessibility for remote and
  isolated places in the country
• To pave the way, among other things, for
  controlling urban air pollution

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Main Policies

• Supporting private sector for dissemination of RE
  applications that are approaching economical
  viability, such as wind, geothermal and biomass
  energy.
• Supporting manufacturers for transferring and
  localization of RE technologies which are
  expected to become competitive in medium terms,
  e.g. PV systems and solar thermal power plants.
• Supporting the research centers to expand their
  research programs for RE technologies that are
  becoming competitive in longer than 10 years
  period.
• Providing sustainable and accessible energy to
  the poor and isolated areas. It is worth
  mentioning that at present more than 96 of
  people in rural areas of the country have access
  to national electrical grid.

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Policy Related Activities

• Building capacity
• training, supporting research centers,
  encouraging manufacturers to produce required RE
  equipments, organizing suitable institutional
  framework,
• Legislation for RE development
• the government is obliged to purchase
  electricity from private RE power plants with
  the price of three times higher than the amount
  paid by end users.
• Raising public awareness
• Pilot projects by the government
• to clear the ground for the private sector to
  come forward.
• Potential assessment studies
• of RE resources with continuous upgrading of the
  results.

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Goals in the Fourth 5 Year Development Plan
2005-2009
More than 700 MW of RE Power Plants would be
installed in the country, which include
Small Hydropower 150 MW
Wind Farm 445 MW
Geothermal Power Plant 55 MW
Solar Thermal Power Plant 17.25 MW
Fuel Cell 1 MW
Photovoltaic 13 MW
Biomass Power Plant 26.5 MW
Total 707.75 MW
Solar Water Heater (1,000,000 m2) 50 MWth
Total (including Solar Water Heaters) 757.75 MW
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Some of RE Projects
In past 10 years, RE Development in Iran has
been undertaken so many progress, and many
projects have been defined and started, which
are
a) Implemented b) Ongoing
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a) Some of the implemented projects
1- Study and data gathering projects

• RE resources mapping for solar and wind energy,
  tidal and wave power, geothermal and biomass
  energy
• Feasibility studies for solar thermal power
  plants, solar water heaters, solar dishes, wind
  turbines, wave and tidal power plants,
  photovoltaic systems, and so on

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2- Installation of wind power plants in Iran
a) Some of the implemented projects

• This project consists of installation of 46.72
  MW wind turbines in two different locations of
  Manjil and Binalood (also design and
  manufacturing of a 600 kW wind turbine by an
  Iranian company is performed in this project).

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a) Some of the implemented projects

• 3- Installation of PV systems

The purpose of this project is to create ability
to design, manufacture and assemble grid
connected as well as off-grid PV systems with
available domestic capacities.
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a) Some of the implemented projects
4- Installation of 77000 m2 Solar water heaters
Solar water heaters are installed in urban and
remote areas
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a) Some of the implemented projects

• 5- Small hydropower plants in different locations
  with total capacity of around 60 MW

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Installed Capacity
Up to the present time the total capacities of
the installed RE systems exceeds 110 MW as stated
in the following table
Year Source Year Source 1996 (kW) 1999 (kW) 2002 (kW) mid 2006 (kW)
Solar Photovoltaic 5 47 170 175
Solar Water Heater - - 119 5000
Wind Energy Wind Energy 1100 10100 11800 47320
Small Hydropower Small Hydropower 4940 7740 9694 58464
Total Renewable Energy Total Renewable Energy 6045 17887 21783 110959
In addition, up to now, large hydro power plants
with total capacity of about 6000 MW have also
been installed in the country.
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b) Some of the ongoing projects

• 1- Two parabolic trough solar thermal power
  plants with the total capacity of 17.25 MW

This project consists of a 250 kW parabolic
trough solar thermal power plant which has been
designed and is under construction and an
integrated solar combined cycle with the solar
share of 17 MW.
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1- Continue
b) Some of the ongoing projects

• Recently the first loop of the solar collectors
  of the 250 kW power plant has been tested
  successfully.

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b) Some of the ongoing projects

• 2- Geothermal power plant with final capacity of
  55 MW

This power plant is going to be installed near
Mount Sabalan in the north-west of Iran
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b) Some of the ongoing projects
3- 398 MW Wind farm in five different locations
1st location 55.68 MW Manjil Wind Farm
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b) Some of the ongoing projects
3- Continue
2nd location Binalood Wind Farm in the north-
east of Iran total capacity
17 MW
These projects consist of 660 kW turbines where
some parts including turbine blades are
manufactured in Iran.
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b) Some of the ongoing projects
3- Continue
3rd location Jarandaq Wind Farm 100
MW 4th location Binalood Wind Farm
100 MW 5th location Siapush Wind Farm
125 MW
For these three sites private investors have
completed their feasibility studies and are in
the final stage of contract agreement. The power
purchase agreements of these projects are
available and had been presented to the investors
together with the available wind data.
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b) Some of the ongoing projects
4- 90 MW Small hydro power plants in different
regions
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5- 26.5 MW Biomass Municipal Solid Waste power
plants
b) Some of the ongoing projects
a) With public investment 10 MW
(under study) b) Private power plants
1- City of Mashad , landfill technology
0.4 MW (PPA preparing) 2- City
of Sari , plasma technology 15 MW
(under way) 3- City of Shiraz ,
landfill technology 1.1 MW
(under way)
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b) Some of the ongoing projects

• 6- PV systems for 40 isolated village households

In this project 40 off-grid PV systems each with
the capacity of 1.1 kW would be installed and
tested in different village households in order
to pave the way for installation of about 12000
of those systems in the isolated and remote areas
of the country with total installed capacity of
13 MW.
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Main Achievements

• Enabling Iranian enterprises for RE systems
  design and also manufacturing of wind turbines,
  hydro power plant equipments, solar water
  heaters, parabolic trough concentrators, PV
  cells, panels and systems
• Experiencing geothermal drilling in harsh climate
  areas
• Building confidence in private sector investors
  for producing electricity, especially through
  wind farms
• Considerable up bringing of the knowledge of
  universities in RE fields

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Conclusion

• Due to capital intensive nature of renewable
  systems its large scale application is a burden
  to the national economy and therefore a
  supportive international financing mechanism is
  required.
• RE technologies are mostly immature and need
  improvement as well as breakthrough which is only
  possible through regional and international
  research cooperation and assistance.
• We must work harder to prepare ground for private
  sector effective investment in the field of
  renewables which is a key factor in making RE
  cost-effective and competitive as well as bring
  about innovation, creativity and dynamism.

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