Iran - Wind atlas used for generating electricity to be drawn up soon

Following the preliminary studies aimed at generating electricity from the wind energy, Iran’s wind atlas will be produced within the next three years, noted managing director of Iran’s Renewable Energies Organization Yusef Armudeli. “Preliminary studies led to the identification of some different geographical locations in the country that are suitable for generating electricity from the wind energy”, he stated adding that, “the Manjil Tunnel (Gilan-Manjil), Takestan, Shahriar, Tehran, Semnan, Khorasan, Neishabur, Sabzevar, Badqais in Khorasan Province, Mashhad all the way down to Khaf, Torbat Heidarieh, as well as the provinces of Ardebil, East and West Azarbaijan, Kordestan, Hamedan, Kermanshah, Ilam, Isfahan, Kerman, Fars and the regions located in the south parts of Sistan and parts of the southern coasts are all capable of producing 6,500 megawatts of electricity generated from wind energy”.

He also commented that currently, two projects have been developed in the Manjil Tunnel and Binalud in Khorasan Province in which 120–megawatts electricity turbines are installed, adding that the first factory manufacturing wind turbines capable of generating 660 kilowatt of electricity has come on stream and five sets of the turbines made by the factory are being installed in Armenia. He also said that if the required funds envisioned in the Fourth Five-Year Development Plan are allocated, the first geothermal power plant capable of producing 20 megawatts of electrical and thermal energy produced from the solar energy would be constructed in Meshkinshahr.