Ouarzazate Solar Panel
In this video learn more about noor ouarzazate in morocco world s largest solar power complex.
Ouarzazate solar panel. 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. The first phase will generate for three hours. 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. Morocco is close to completing the world s largest concentrated solar power farm.
With around 330 days of sunshine a. 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. 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. At 510 mw it is the world s largest concentrated solar power plant.
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. The solar thermal plant at ouarzazate will harness the sun s warmth to melt salt which will hold its heat to power a steam turbine in the evening. Its concentrating solar power csp technology could provide. This technology concentrates radiation within mirrors and onto a focal spot where an oily liquid is heated.
Are there some guided tours. Noor is the arabic word for light. Answer 1 of 8. The collected heat produces steam which is then converted into electricity through a turbine generator.