Essential infrastructures and relevant policies for renewable energy developments in oil-rich developing countries: Case of Iran

Abstract

It is evident that the impacts of various implemented policies for Renewable Energy (RE) developments are not similar in every country. There are rather the associations of benefits to be gained from specific relevant measures that are to be identified for overcoming various obstacles preventing the REs integration in a specific country. The purpose of the present research is to introduce the critical required infrastructures, both hard and soft ones, and to identify those prevailing policies which are of most relevance for RE developments in oil-rich countries; like Iran as a case study. The essentialities of the introduced infrastructures are approved through expertise critical insights into REs approaches in some developing countries as pattern examples for the contributive diagnostic remedies and problem-solving guidelines presented in this research article; focusing the on oil-rich countries for the first time. The research statistical population consists of 50 people, including senior executives and experts in the Iranian RE sectors. A census sampling method was used and researcher-made questionnaires were used for data collection and SPSS23 and LISREL 8.8 were used for data analysis. The quantitatively obtained data indicate that the government supports to foreign investors, power purchase agreement and current Feed-in-Tariff have positive effects, amounting to 0.74, 0.52 and 0.68 respectively, on REs market in Iran. This research in terms of purpose is practical because it can solve or help to improve REs restructures and services in Iran and rather would be applicable in some other regional states with similar status.