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Iran’s solar steps

Iranian PV: In 2014 Iran announced an ambitious 5 GW renewables goal, but progress proved slow, primarily due to the difficulty many foreign firms have investing in the country. Since the lifting of UN sanctions last year, however, the situation on the ground has been slowly changing – and European solar firms have already begun moving in, as pv magazine discovered.

By

Ian Clover

04 Oct 2017

Tehran is poised to finalize economic guarantees to Saga Energy, which will soon embark on the construction of 2 GW of solar capacity in Iran. | Image: Ian Clover/pv magazine

It takes just four hours to fly from Vienna to Tehran, Iran’s capital. Four hours separating the city ranked number 1 in Mercer’s Quality of Living ranking, and a city ranked 203 (out of 230 leading world cities). Iran certainly puts the ‘Middle’ in the Middle East. It sits at the heart of this tumultuous …

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