Ouarzazate Solar Panel

Next month i will visit quarzazate and i wonder if it is possible to visit maroccos ambitious solar park noor power station aka centrale solaire thermosynamique noor.

Ouarzazate solar panel.

This technology concentrates radiation within mirrors and onto a focal spot where an oily liquid is heated. Morocco is close to completing the world s largest concentrated solar power farm. Noor 1 the first phase built at ouarzazate provides 160 mw of the ultimate 580 mw capacity and has already reduced morocco s carbon emissions by hundreds of thousands of tonnes a year its designers say. In this video learn more about noor ouarzazate in morocco world s largest solar power complex.

The collected heat produces steam which is then converted into electricity through a turbine generator. The first phase will generate for three hours. With around 330 days of sunshine a. Are there some guided tours.

At 510 mw it is the world s largest concentrated solar power plant. The technology chosen for the ouarzazate solar plant is the concentrated thermal solar power csp with parabolic troughs. October 2018 ouarzazate solar power station osps also called noor power station نور arabic for light is a solar power complex located in the drâa tafilalet region in morocco 10 kilometres 6 2 mi from ouarzazate town in ghessat rural council area. Noor is the arabic word for light.

Its concentrating solar power csp technology could provide. The first phase of the 9 billion project was launched in 2013 while the second and third phases were launched in 2016. The massive complex sits on a sun blasted site at the foot of the high atlas mountains 10km 6 miles from ouarzazate a city nicknamed the door to the desert. Download full report noor ouarzazate i a 160 mw concentrated solar power csp plant is a path breaking largescale csp project one of the first to be delivered in the middle east and north africa mena region taking advantage of the region s abundant solar resources.