Iran 16th largest electricity producer in the world
Iran has been recognized as the sixteenth largest electricity producer in the world, however, this country generated over 66 percent of its electricity by natural gas in the past year and the share of renewable energies in Iran’s electricity production was less than one percent.
According to the International Energy Agency’s report in 2013, Iran produced 263400 GWh electricity and reached the world’s sixteenth place in production of electrical power.