Total Dependence on Thermal Power a Cause for Concern

Policymakers’ shortsightedness and the existence of a mafia-like syndicate that controls thermal power plants has caused Iran to remain fully dependent on fossil fuel-based power, a lecturer at Sharif University of Technology said.
“Despite the huge potentials of harnessing renewables, including geothermal, solar and wind power, the development of renewable energy projects is seriously impeded,” Barq News also quoted Hashem Oraee as saying. 
“The installed capacity of renewable energy should have reached 5,000 megawatts by 2021, but shockingly it is still less than 1,000 megawatts and nobody dares to explain why,” Oraee said.
“It is regrettable that energy officials have almost done nothing to promote solar and wind energies over the past 25 years while billions of dollars have been invested in building thermal power stations in the country.”