Morocco embarks on a solar mega project

Source：Ringier Metalworking Release Date：2015-11-17 151

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Morocco has opened the first phase of its new solar plant. When finished, it is expected to cover an area even larger than the country’s capital city of Rabat.

THE first stage of the solar power plant at Ouarzazate, known as Noor 1 contains 500,000 crescent-shaped solar mirrors that follow the sun during the day to capture sunlight. The mirrors are all 12m high and focus on heating up a steel pipeline carrying a “synthetic thermal oil solution” - which can be heated to 393 centigrade and mixed with water to create steam and turn the turbines to make electricity.

When complete Noor 1, along with Noor 2 and 3 (which are due to open in 2017) will generate 580MW of power — enough for a million homes. The project will be welcome not just for environmental reasons, but for security reasons too. Apparently the motivation behind the $9 billion project is the fact that Morocco currently imports the overwhelming majority of its energy needs as fossil fuels from abroad.

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