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Ouarzazate Solar Power Complex
Noor Ouarzazate is a solar power complex located 10 kilometers from Ouarzazate city, making it the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant with a production capacity of 510 MW. The entire complex is planned to produce up to 582 MW, with an estimated project cost of around $2.5 billion.
The solar power station is developed with the collaboration of the Spanish consortium TSK-Acciona-Sener and is the first in a series of planned developments at the Ouarzazate Solar Complex by the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (MASEN).
Water consumption for the Ouarzazate Noor complex is estimated at 2.5 to 3 million m³ per year for one wet-cooling project (Noor I) and two dry-cooling projects (Noor II and III), required for regular cleaning of the reflectors.
- urface area: 480 ha
- Installed power: 160 MW
- CO2 avoided: 280,000 t/year
- Commissioned: February 2016
- Price of Kwh: 1.62 DH
- Total investment: Approximately 7 billion MAD
- Technology used: CSP, with thermal storage of about 3 hours
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Morocco in the fast lane with world’s largest concentrated solar farm (CNN)
It’s not just on the track that Morocco is aiming to become a world leader in renewable energy.
As well as a host nation of a Formula ePrix, the country is also home to the world’s largest concentrated solar farm…. read more
