Morocco’s first solar power plant opened by King Mohammed VI
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By Enu Afolayan
King Mohammed VI switches on Morocco’s first solar power plant that is set to provide
over a million homes with power.
The edge of the Sahara desert, just 12 miles outside of the city Ouarzazate is now home to
a glittering spectacle that is set to be the world’s largest solar power plant.
After beginning construction on May 10th, 2013 the project has succeeded in completing
stage one of its epic operations.
Covering a spans the size of 35 football fields, the 800
rows of 500,000 crescent-shaped solar mirrors make up Noor I.
This is the first of a
complex of four linked solar power plants that once completed in 2018, will finally occupy
a site larger than the country’s capital, Rabat, which is home to 1.4 million people.
Instead of utilizing the more familiar photovoltaic panels that are now a common sight on
rooftops around the world, ‘the door of the desert’ site uses mirror technology which
despite being less common and more expensive, has the advantage of continuously
producing power even after the sun has gone down.
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