Renewable Energy Consumption and Reduction of Air Pollution in Iran
Renewable energy or green power is the one that is produced which is cleaner and less harmful to the environment. Green power comes from wind, solar, geothermal and low-impact hydro resources. These are natural forces that can be harvested without releasing pollutants into the air.
The economy of I.R.Iran is so related to oil that has had many environmental problems especially air pollution in urban areas in recent years. Statistics show that most of the time, the condition of air quality is in crisis level especially during fall and winter seasons. Rapid and high population growth has had large amount of fossil fuels consumption in all sectors including transportation, industry, agriculture, residential and commercial and public services and air pollution and healthy problems.
Iran's abundance of fossil fuel resources has tended to discourage the country's incentive to shift to cleaner alternative energy sources for its energy needs that must be considered in future programming. These are discussed in this paper.
Keywords: Energy, Renewable, Non-renewable, Air, Pollution, Iran