Green Power Generation Capacity Exceeds 1 GW

A 10-megawatt solar power plant in Damghan County, Semnan Province was inaugurated by Energy Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian on Friday and Iran’s renewable energy output capacity surpassed 1 gigawatt.
“Constructed by the private sector at an estimated cost of about $10 million, the photovoltaic farm is expected to add 18 million kilowatts of power to the national grid per year,” the minister was quoted as saying by the Energy Ministry’s news portal.
The PV farm is equipped with 21,000 solar panels, 84 inverters and five transformers, he noted, adding that the new facility was built on a 200,000- square-meter piece of land.