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Iran: Catching Up With Global Energy Transition

Iran: Catching Up With Global Energy Transition
Iran: Catching Up With Global Energy Transition

The world is going through tectonic change in the energy sector and the renewables revolution is compelling the energy industry to evolve, managing director of the Oil Industries Engineering and Construction Company (OIEC) said.
“Such changes bring development opportunities on condition that we should be willing and able to reduce our reliance on conventional forms of energy like fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas),” Gholamreza Manouchehri was quoted as saying by the Oil Ministry’s news portal.
The Industrial Revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries gave impetus to the coal and oil industries, but in the 21st century (especially the second half) things will change and reliance on fossil fuels and inefficient coal/gas-fired power plants are gradually becoming a thing of the past, he added.

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