An estimated 2.6 billion kilowatt hours of electricity has been produced from renewable sources since March 2009.
According to Paven, the Energy Ministry's news portal, the output helped save 575 million liters of water in the past eight years, of which 19 million liters were saved between Oct. 22 and Nov. 21 of this year.
Iran's installed power capacity stands at around 79,000 megawatts, of which 660 MW is from renewables, including wind and solar.
Paven said during the eight years, renewables have helped reduce greenhouse emissions by as much as 1.8 million tons.
The electricity generated since 2009 has also helped save 742 million cubic meters of fossil fuel, which are the root cause of air pollution, the news portal added.
Iran has huge potential for the production of renewable energies, including geothermal, solar and wind power, environmentalists and experts say.
Although the share of renewables is a meager 660MW, measures are being taken to increase the volume to 7,500 MW from solar, wind, geothermal and biomass renewable power plants by 2030.
Reportedly, 421MW of new solar power capacity is under construction and has created 42,700 jobs.
According to the state-owned Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization, aka Satba, there are 95 large-scale renewable power stations that became operational at a cost of $816 million over seven years.
Oil- and gas-rich Iran has pledged to do its fair share in helping slow climate change by promoting cleaner energies.
In December 2015, 195 nations, including Iran, signed an agreement at the Paris Climate Conference to gradually move away from fossil fuels with the goal of limiting the rise in average global temperatures to well below 2 degrees Celsius.
At the Paris meeting Iran pledged to curtail greenhouse gas emissions by increasing power production from renewables to 7,500MW by the end of the next decade.
