Ouarzazate power station
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| Coordinates | 31 ° 1 '10 " N , 6 ° 51' 53" W | ||
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| Type | Solar thermal power plant | ||
| power | 580 MW | ||
| owner | ACWA Power Ouarzazate | ||
| Start of operations | February 2016 | ||
The Ouarzazate power plant (or Noor power plant ) is a solar thermal power plant in Morocco , which is located approximately 10 kilometers northeast of the city of Ouarzazate , Ouarzazate province . The El Mansour Eddahbi reservoir is located approx. 10 kilometers southeast of the power plant.
The power plant is owned by ACWA Power Ouarzazate , a consortium consisting of ACWA Power , Masen Capital ( Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy ) , Aries Ingeniería y Sistemas and TSK Electrónica y Electricidad . It is the first of 5 planned solar power plants in Morocco, which are to be built by 2020 with a total output of 2,000 MW .
General
The location near Ouarzazate was u. a. Chosen because the annual solar irradiation is 2,635 kWh / m² (or 2,500 kWh / m²), one of the highest values worldwide. The sun shines here, with very few exceptions, 365 days a year. Construction of the facility began on May 3, 2013.
In order to be able to operate the power plant during peak load times, which in Morocco is between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., all systems are equipped with thermal storage. The storage systems work with a eutectic salt mixture, consisting of 60% sodium nitrate and 40% potassium nitrate . The entire complex will require between 84,000 and 140,000 tons of this salt mixture.
The entire system requires around 19 t of diesel per day to firstly keep the salt mixture above the solidification temperature of 110 ° C and secondly to keep the temperature of the synthetic oil used as a heat transfer medium above 8 ° C.
The Noor I power plant is water-cooled, Noor II and Noor III are air-cooled. The entire power plant requires 2.5 to 3 million m³ of water annually.
The total area of the facility is 2,500 hectares.
Investments
The power plant should have an installed capacity of 500, 560, 570 and 580 MW in the final stage . The first three systems went into operation in 2016 and 2018, respectively. A fourth plant is planned. The systems are named Noor with the following numbering. Noor stands for the word light in the Arabic , Persian and Urdu languages . The following table gives an overview:
| investment | Max. Power (MW) | Type | Start of operation |
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| Noor I | 160 | Parabolic trough power plant | February 2016 |
| Noor II | 200 | Parabolic trough power plant | January 2018 |
| Noor III | 150 | Solar tower power plant | March 2018 |
| Noor IV | 50 | Solar park ( photovoltaics ) | planned |
Annex Noor I
Plant 1 is a parabolic trough power plant , which was built on an area of 450 ha. The parabolic troughs heat a circulating heat transfer medium from 297 ° C to 393 ° C. The system has a thermal store that can provide full power for three hours.
The parabolic troughs, which were supplied by the German company Flabeg , have a height of 7 m and a width of 3 m. A total of 537,000 parabolic mirrors are arranged in 400 rows of 300 m in length. They are permanently tracked to the position of the sun.
Annex Noor II
Like Noor I, plant 2 is equipped with parabolic troughs and has been built on an area of 750 hectares. The output is 200 MW. The system is equipped with a thermal storage of 2,800 MWh, which enables 5 (or 3) hours of operation at full power. It went into operation in January 2018.
Annex Noor III
Plant 3 is a solar tower power plant with a 240 m high solar tower and heliostats . The temperature generated is 700 ° C. An area of 680 ha was made available. The output is 150 MW (or 134 to 140 MW net). The system is equipped with a thermal storage of 2,730 MWh, which enables seven hours of operation at full power. The plant went into operation in March 2018.
Annex Noor IV
Plant 4 should consist of photovoltaic modules. There are solar panels are set up with a total capacity of 50 to 70 MW.
financing
The World Bank estimates the total cost at USD 2.677 billion (as of 2015). They made a $ 400 million loan to the Moroccan Agency For Solar Energy (MASEN). The costs for plant 1 are given as USD 1 billion (or 633 million or € 1.042 billion). The costs for plants 2 and 3 are estimated at € 1.8 billion. The FAZ speaks of total costs of 1.8 billion euros. The VDI puts the investment costs for plants 1 to 3 at € 2.4 billion.
According to the FAZ, the operators receive € 0.12 per kWh. Other sources quote $ 0.189 per kWh for 25 years. According to VDI, the electricity price is subsidized by the state, since the generation costs of 0.12 € per kWh are higher than with conventional power plants.
Germany provides around 38 percent of this (834 million euros) in the form of low-interest loans. The BMZ and the BMUB provided € 115 million for plant 1 . On behalf of BMUB and BMZ, KfW has granted additional loans totaling € 654 million for facilities 2 and 3. The KfW project partner is MASEN.
In addition, the European Commission, the European Investment Bank , the French Development Bank (Agence Française de Développement), the Clean Technology Fund, the African Development Bank , the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy and a private investor found by tender.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b ACWA Power Ouarzazate. (No longer available online.) ACWA Power , archived from the original on October 26, 2015 ; accessed on August 25, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i P-MA-FF0-002 - Ouarzazate Solar Power Station Project II. (PDF 671 kB, pp. 2–5) African Development Bank , accessed on August 24, 2015 (English).
- ↑ a b c d e f g Solar energy - Morocco. (PDF 130 kB) KfW , accessed on August 25, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Rely on the radiance of the sun. VDI , June 12, 2015, accessed on August 25, 2015 .
- ^ The Launch of Construction at Noor 1 Independent Solar Power Project in the Kingdom of Morocco. (No longer available online.) Acwapower.com, archived from the original on February 4, 2016 ; accessed on February 5, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b Technical Advisory Services for Phase II of the Ouarzazate Solar Complex, Morocco. Lahmeyer International , accessed August 24, 2015 .
- ↑ a b The world's largest solar power plant complex is being built in Morocco with the support of the German government. BMZ , December 22, 2014, accessed on August 25, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d Johannes Pennekamp: Like a fairy tale from a thousand and one nights. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 18, 2015, accessed August 24, 2015 .
- ↑ Only 1: Morocco opens first power plant of the world's largest solar complex. ( Memento from February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Wirtschaftsblatt , February 4, 2016. Retrieved on February 4, 2016.
- ↑ a b c Concentrating Solar Power Projects: NOOR II. NREL , October 18, 2018, accessed on December 14, 2018 (English).
- ↑ a b c d World's second utility-scale 24/7 tower CSP, Noor III commissions solar field. EurekAlert , March 11, 2018, accessed on December 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Concentrating Solar Power Projects: NOOR I. NREL , March 23, 2017, accessed on December 14, 2018 (English).
- ^ The Ouarzazate CSP website takes off. Acciona Engineering, October 17, 2013, accessed on December 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Concentrating Solar Power Projects: NOOR III. NREL , March 23, 2018, accessed December 14, 2018 .
- ^ Ouarzazate Solar Power Plant: Tender for Noor IV launched yesterday. invest.gov.ma, March 20, 2015, accessed August 25, 2015 .
- ^ MA- Noor Ouarzazate Concentrated Solar Power Project. World Bank , accessed August 25, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Concentrating Solar Power Projects. nrel.gov, accessed December 14, 2018 .
