Renewable Energy in Iran: A Long Way Ahead

The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization—a subsidiary of the Energy Ministry also known as Satba—was founded to help promote green energy but has failed in its mission, said an entrepreneur and founder of the first solar-powered office building in Iran.
"Those in charge of the state-run organization [like most other executive bodies] lack a thorough knowledge of energy issues" and that is why their views are shortsighted and unwise, Saeed Mansour Afshar said in a talk with the Persian-language weekly ‘Tejarat Farda’, a sister publication of the Financial Tribune.
There is a visible lack of seasoned engineers and experts in the organization and those in charge do not have a clear understanding of solar power. That is the reason why they are unable (probably unwilling) to introduce fair tariffs for electricity produced by the private sector, he complained.