Jorf Lasfar power plant
| Jorf Lasfar power plant | |||
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| Coordinates | 33 ° 6 '17 " N , 8 ° 38' 12" W | ||
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 Morocco
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| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | coal | ||
| power | 2,056 MW | ||
| operator | Jorf Lasfar Energy Company (JLEC) | ||
| Start of operations | 1994 | ||
The Jorf Lasfar power plant is a coal-fired power plant and as of 2014 the largest power plant in Morocco . It is located in the Moroccan port city of El Jadida on the Atlantic coast and consists of six power plant blocks with an installed capacity of 2.056 GW . It covers around a third of the total electricity demand in Morocco and around 66% of the base load .
The power plant was put into operation in the mid-1990s, and up to 2001 a total of four units had been built, each unit with around 340 MW nominal output. By 2014, the power plant had been expanded to six units and the total output increased to over 2 GW. The 6 million tons of coal per year required for the operation of the power plant are imported by ship, the coal comes primarily from South Africa . A storage area with a capacity of one million tons is located directly at the power plant. At full load, around 700 tons of coal are burned per hour.
Connected to the power plant is a seawater desalination plant for the production of cooling water and a landfill site for the permanent deposition of combustion residues and ash. The coal-fired power plant is operated by Jorf Lasfar Energy Company (JLEC), a branch of the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA), and employs around 480 people.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Jorf Lasfar power station, Morocco. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 9, 2015 ; Retrieved April 21, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Jorf Lasfar Coal-Fired Power Plant Expansion. Retrieved April 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Jorf Lasfar (JLEC) Thermal Power Plant Morocco. Retrieved April 21, 2015 .