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NOORo I, NOORo II and NOORo III, the three thermoelectric solar plants belonging to the largest solar complex on the planet located in Ouarzazate (Morocco), have been developed turnkey by the SENER engineering and technology group, which also provides proprietary technology . These facilities will play a significant role during the COP22, Conference of Parties, held from 7 to 18 November in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh and where they are expected to hold much of the attention of visitors.
The Moroccan Solar Energy Agency (MASEN), a Moroccan government agency, selected the project led by the Saudi company Acwa Power, in which SENER is part of the consortiums responsible for the construction and commissioning of two NOORo parabolic trough facilities, NOORo I and NOORo II, and a third, NOORo III, equipped with central tower technology with salt receiver.
NOORo I, inaugurated by His Majesty King Mohamed VI at the beginning of 2016, has a power of 160 MWe, employs SENERtrough® parabolic trough collectors and has three hours of thermal storage in the absence of solar radiation.
The second generation SENERtrough®-2 system, also designed and patented by SENER, is being installed in NOORo II of 200 MWe and six hours of storage.
Finally, NOORo III, Concentrated solar power plant with central tower receiver and molten salt heat storage technology that allows it to produce electricity after sundown, covering the 5 hours of peak electricity demand. Part of NOORo (Ouarzazate, Morocco), the largest complex of concentrating solar power (CSP) in the world.
Datasheet:
Tower Height: 250 m
Receiver Thermal Power: 660 MWt
Total Reflective Area: 1,3 Mm²
Surface area of the solar field: 550 Ha
Thermal Storage Capacity: 7.5 h (equivalent hours of Turbine Operation)
With 7,400 Heliostats and 150 MWe of Turbine power capacity, NOORo III is the natural evolution of Gemasolar (Seville), the first commercial plant in the world this type and in which SENER carried out the design, led the construction and was the supplier of the technology, savings 130,000 tons/year of CO2 emission and letting 120,000 households to recieve its Clean and Safe Power. consists of the natural evolution of the emblematic Gemasolar plant (Seville, Spain), only with a size seven times greater and five times more power.
SENER is a leading company in thermoelectric solar energy, both because of the number of projects in portfolio -29 to date, mostly built under the turnkey model and distributed between Spain, USA, South Africa and Morocco- as well as for development And incorporation of technological solutions with their own patents. In total they represent more than 2,000 MWe of installed power and a saving of more than one million tons of CO2 per year. Specifically, these three plants built by SENER in the NOORo complex will avoid the emission of 420,000 CO2 tons per year and are capable of supplying clean and safe energy to around 400,000 households.
As in all of its projects, SENER maintains a strong commitment to the local community since the start of the first phase of NOORo I. Both workers and suppliers in the area are being employed and a national industry development plan has been established. Which includes the manufacture in Morocco of components of high technological content, such as the receiver of molten salts being manufactured in Casablanca.
The COP is the supreme decision-making body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The country is hosting this meeting in a context of firm commitment to environmental policies, giving special visibility to projects of great magnitude aimed at transforming it as renewable energies.
In CSP, SENER is world leader not only in in the number of projects it has under its belt, the majority turnkey projects, but also for the development of proprietary technology applied to these plants, where it is also able to carry out their operation and maintenance.
