A Solar Thermal Power Plant in Service This Year
8 October 2009
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Morocco launched the construction of the world's largest combined cycle power plant (solar and gas turbines) in 2008. This plant is located in Ain Beni Mathar, in the south-east of the country.
With a capacity of 472 MW, including 20 MW from the solar component, this plant will contribute 8.5% to national production. It will be built on an area of 160 hectares, half of which will be dedicated to the solar field (approximately 88 hectares).
The commissioning of this important project, which is being carried out by the Spanish group "Abengoa", is scheduled for the second half of 2009. It will therefore be ahead of the announced date (2010) when construction work was launched by King Mohammed VI in March 2008.
The gas needed for operation will be Algerian but purchased from the Spanish. This is, in fact, a way to receive the cost of the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline connecting Algeria to Spain in gas, not money.
Madrid approved today a loan of 100 million euros to Morocco to help finance the construction of this plant (with a total cost of nearly 500 million euros). Spain is thus taking care of its "strategic" neighbor and its companies.
It should be recalled that the majority of Spanish investments in Africa are destined for its immediate southern neighbors.
Posted on March 22, 2009
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With a capacity of 472 MW, including 20 MW from the solar component, this plant will contribute 8.5% to national production. It will be built on an area of 160 hectares, half of which will be dedicated to the solar field (approximately 88 hectares).
The commissioning of this important project, which is being carried out by the Spanish group "Abengoa", is scheduled for the second half of 2009. It will therefore be ahead of the announced date (2010) when construction work was launched by King Mohammed VI in March 2008.
The gas needed for operation will be Algerian but purchased from the Spanish. This is, in fact, a way to receive the cost of the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline connecting Algeria to Spain in gas, not money.
Madrid approved today a loan of 100 million euros to Morocco to help finance the construction of this plant (with a total cost of nearly 500 million euros). Spain is thus taking care of its "strategic" neighbor and its companies.
It should be recalled that the majority of Spanish investments in Africa are destined for its immediate southern neighbors.
Posted on March 22, 2009
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