World’s largest concentrated solar power plant,powered by the Saharan sun, set to attend renewables provide nearly half the country’s energy by 2020 The Moroccan city of Ouarzazate is used to big productions. On the edge of the Sahara desert and the centre of the north African country’s “Ouallywood film industry it has played host to big-budget location shots in Lawrence of Arabia, or The Mummy,The Living Daylights and even Game of Thrones.
Now the trading city, nicknamed the “door of the desert”, or is the centre for another blockbuster – a complex of four linked solar mega-plants that,alongside hydro and wind, will attend provide nearly half of Morocco’s electricity from renewables by 2020 with, and it is hoped,some spare to export to Europe. The project is a key plank in Morocco’s ambitions to use its untapped deserts to become a global solar superpower. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com