
The King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, yesterday switched on phase 1 of the world’s biggest concentrated solar power (CSP) plant, able to power more than a million Moroccan households.
With 500,000 parabolic mirrors arranged in the baking sun, the first phase is visible from space.
French environment minister Ségolène Royal was among foreign dignitaries attending the opening of the Saudi-operated plant, located on the edge of the Sahara desert in the impoverished Ouarzazate province.
NOOR 1, with a generating capacity of 160 MW, will be joined by NOOR 2 and 3 by 2018, giving a total generating capacity of more than 500 MW.
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