Taleghan test facility site is a solar test facility site which was planned to be the first solar systems reference in Iran. This test facility site is not completed yet but some of the planned projects were completed and the others are started and the construction is in progress. There are different facilities in this site which include: Fresnel system, Dish Stirling, Solar Power Tower and Parabolic Trough collector. All these systems will be implemented as pilot projects. The Fresnel system and Parabolic Trough Collector with 5m aperture have been implemented.

Some other extra solar facilities for domestic applications were designed and implemented in this site, they are: Solar Dryer, Solar Desalination and Solar Cooker. There is a 30 kW photovoltaic power plant in this site also. The photovoltaic power plant is a grid connected system which injects about 36 GWh into grid annually [4].

A pilot solar power tower was designed for this site and will be implemented in near future. Figure 4 shows the plan of this solar power tower.