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Incorrect power/energy units

Wind power in Iran contains a sentence with incorrect units:

In 2008, Iran's wind power plants in Manjil (in Gilan province) and Binaloud (in Khorasan Razavi province) produce 128,000 megawatts of electricity per year.

Megawatt is a unit of power, which is energy per unit time. Thus it does not make sense to say "megawatts ... per year". When describing the annual output of an electrical generating plant, the customary units are kilowatt hours per year (or megawatt hours per year). Unfortunately, the article contains no source for this claim so I cannot check the original figures. I will search the Web and try to find statistics for Iran's annual wind energy output. It would also be interesting to compare Iran's wind energy output to its annual extraction of petroleum, using the barrel of oil equivalent of 1.70 MWh per 1 barrel of oil. --Teratornis (talk) 20:06, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This source gives Iran's annual energy production for wind and solar combined from 2002 to 2005:

"Energy, Economic, and Electricity Information". International Atomic Energy Agency, Islamic Republic of Iran, Power Ministry. 2007. Retrieved 2008-11-03. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

This source goes into more detail about Iran's early wind power industry and history, but it is not recent:

Karegar, H. Kazemi (2002). "Wind and Solar Energy Developments in Iran" (PDF). Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference. Retrieved 2008-11-03. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

Here are some search links for more references with {{Google scholar cite}} and {{Google}}:

--Teratornis (talk) 21:19, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Iran, sole producer of wind turbine in Middle East"

That's not truth. The source of this information is IRNA. The Islamic Republic News Agency is government-funded and controlled under the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. This is not an independent source. Turkey is also producing wind turbines. Several German companies like Siemens, Wind Technik Nord, Nordex etc. are producing in Turkey.

I delete that sentence.

79.217.14.195 (talk) 04:06, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]