Iran’s first solar power plant to become operational in 2010

[jpak]

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=469742

TEHRAN, April 13 (MNA) –- Iran’s first solar thermal electric power plant will become operational in 2010 in central province of Yazd.

Importation of the modern technologies of building solar thermal electric power plants, developing and using clean energies, making optimum use of the energies produced from the regular fuels, boosting the power plants’ output, cutting the environmental pollution, stabilizing the voltages of the region’s electricity, meeting the ever-increasing demands for electricity in the area, and upgrading the electricity production capacity are among the main objectives behind the set up of the plant in Yazd, noted the manager of the national project.

The project, being developed in the desert region of Yazd, will incorporate natural gas, steam, and solar energies, Mohammadreza Modarressi commented, adding that because investment in the power stations employing integrated systems is by far more economical than the regular power plants.

Solar thermal energy is a technology for harnessing solar power for practical applications from solar heating to electrical power generation. Solar thermal collectors, such as solar hot water panels, are commonly used to generate solar hot water for domestic and light industrial applications.

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edit: I guarantee this won't be on ChimpCo's target list...

[Javaman]

1. Oh no! can't have them making solar bombs!!! nt