Construction of Iran's first CSP project started

    Mohsen Tarztalab, managing director of Iran’s Thermal Power Plant Holding Company (TPPH), announced in November 2021 that Iran will complete the country’s first solar thermal power generation Solar Energy Roof  project in March 2023.

    Tarztalab claimed that the new concentrated solar thermal power generation project located near the central city of Yazd in central Iran will generate 17MW of clean energy. The project covers an area of about 40 hectares and is being constructed next to the Yazd combined cycle power plant, and will be integrated with the combined cycle power plant into an integrated solar combined cycle (ISCC) power plant (ISCC power plants use hybrid technology, including solar thermal power generation systems It is integrated in a combined cycle power plant. In the ISCC plant, solar energy is used as an auxiliary heat source to support the steam cycle, thereby increasing power generation capacity or reducing the use of fossil fuels).