floating solar power in iran

barghab reporting : Relying on domestic capacities and expertise, Mahabad Petrochemical company, in West Azarbaijan Province, has put Iran’s first floating solar power plant online

It has taken six months for the company to make the project operational, the CEO of the petrochemical company Abbas Farshbaf said

Located in a 400-square meter of land, the current capacity of this power plant is 200 kWh per day, he added, The figure will be improved to 500 kwh per day after the exploitation of the second phase of the plant

The project has cost 8.5 billion rials (about $37.7 thousand), as he informed

This models of solar power production installation mounted on a structure that floats on a body of water, typically an artificial basin or a lake

Two types of systems can be distinguished: FPV or Floating photovoltaic, that uses photovoltaic panels mounted on the platform, and floating Concentrated solar power, that uses mirrors that redirect the solar power to a tower

American, Danish, French, Italian and Japanese nationals were the first to register patents for floating solar