Analysis of market development challenges of renewable energy technologies in Iran with structural-interpretive modeling

In recent years, the uncontrolled increase in fossil energy consumption it has had far-reaching environmental and climate change consequences. Renewable energy technology and development the use of renewable energy sources is a sustainable and internationally agreed solution that the formation and development of the market of these technologies is a key issue and one of the bottlenecks in the development and widespread use of renewable energy. In this regard, this article analyzes the challenges of renewable energy technologies market development in Iran. By examining the development history of the market of renewable energy technologies and using the opinion of 11 experts in the fall of 1400, we extracted 20 key challenges of market formation regarding these technologies. Then by structural-interpretive modeling (ISM), the relationships between challenges, and their influence and dependence, are described benefiting from Micmac analysis. Based on our findings, challenges of renewable energy technologies market formation are categorized in 13 levels and their inter-relationship are elaborated. The most influential challenges include low-scale economics and the high risk of developing these technologies. Weaknesses in technology transfer infrastructure, limited advertising activities, poor government interactions with companies are other key challenges in developing the renewable energy technology market. The main policy implication of the findings of this study is the need for integrated attention to the challenges of market development and the level of each challenge and its impact on other challenges.