Potentiometry and Prioritizing of Renewable Energies Exploitation Case Study in Ardabil Province of Iran

Due to the needs of the modern societies to provide their energy, fully or partially, from the renewable energy sources and its necessity as a main principle of sustainable development, it is necessary to assess and evaluate a renewable energy and its integration for utilizing a part of the consumed energy for the societies from a cheap energy resource and solving the ecological and social problems. Despite the great potentials of the Ardabil province in agriculture, water streams, climatic precipitation, and climatic conditions, the necessity of appropriate investments to better exploite these capabilities (renewable energies) increases. The goal of this research work is to exploite renewable energies (solar, wind, biomass and bio-energy, water) based on farming, improvement of policy-making for developing renewable energies, developing atlas of renewable energies based on farming, and improving policy-making of developing renewable energies in the Ardabil province. According to the results obtained from this work, the most talented town of the Ardabil province in terms of renewable energies is Meshgin-shahr. The solar energy of 3/449 kW h/m2/y, hydropower of 270/34 Gw h/y, and geothermal of 76/11kw h/y rank Meshgin-shah as the first among all the cities of the Ardabil province; the lowest is the Sarein city.