VOL. XLV

No 48

2-December-2002

IRAN

Geothermal Plant Under Development In SabalanMountains As Two Wind Farms Planned

Development work on Irans first geothermal power plant has begun in the SabalanMountains in Ardebil province. On 20 November the Iran Daily newspaper quoted Yousef Armodeli, Director of the New Energies Organization in the Ministry of Energy, as saying that work had begun on the drilling of six wells to a depth of 3,500ms. The plant will be built at Meshkinshahr, which lies in an...