Green Energy
- Kenya To Build The Largest Solar Plant
Chinese firms have partnered with the Kenyan government to build the largest solar plant ever seen in Kenya. The firms, China Jiangxi Corporation for International Economic & Technical Co, Ltd. (CJIC) and the manufacturers of the Chinese photovoltaic...
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Canadian Solar has supplied solar modules for an 8.5 MW power plant in Lindenhof near Neubrandenburg in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Berlin-based saferay expects to complete the project next month. With this cooperation to build the Lindenhof...
- Biggest Floating Solar Power Plant Built In Hyogo
Article originally published on www.jw.asahi.com, in May 26th, 2015KASAI, Hyogo Prefecture--The world's largest floating solar power plant has been built on Sakasamaike Pond here.A ceremony was held May 24 to mark the completion of the mega...
- Kyocera Tcl Completes Work On Floating Mega-solar Plants
Article originally published in http://www.greentechlead.com/, on april 21st 2015Kyocera TCL Solar has completed construction of two floating mega-solar power plants in Kato city, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.The joint venture company formed by Kyocera...
- City Of Masdar Unveils 100mw Shams I Solar Project In Uae
Article published on http://solar.cleantechnology-business-review.com/news on March, 18th 2013By CTBR staff writer The city of Masdar in the UAE has unveiled the Shams 1 concentrated solar power plant in partnership with its partners, Total...
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Largest Solar power plant
The oil-rich United Arab Emirates (UAE) officially opened the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant “Shams-1”. This is the largest solar power plant in the world with the capacity of 100 MW. The plant includes a huge field of parabolic mirrors located in the desert about 74 miles (120 kilometers) in the south of Abu Dhabi which can serve 20,000 homes. The estimated cost to build this large project is approx. $600 million.
In this concentrated solar power plant, around 258 thousand mirrors are used to concentrate the sun energy for heating the fluid, which produces steam to run the 125 MW turbine of weight 220 tons to make electricity. The plant still requires some natural gas to “superheat” the fluid.
If the plant’s power was produced using fossil fuels, it would involve pumping 175,000 tCo2 into the atmosphere every year. Producing the same amount of power using sunlight is the equivalent of planting 1.5 million trees or taking 15,000 cars off the road.
This Plant was developed by Shams Power Company, a joint venture between Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company (60%), French oil giant Total (20 %) and Spanish energy infrastructure company Abengoa Solar (20%). There are also larger concentrated solar energy projects that are near completion, but aren’t yet plugged into their local grids. Similar to this project, Shams 2 and Shams 3 plants are also in the way.
In this concentrated solar power plant, around 258 thousand mirrors are used to concentrate the sun energy for heating the fluid, which produces steam to run the 125 MW turbine of weight 220 tons to make electricity. The plant still requires some natural gas to “superheat” the fluid.
If the plant’s power was produced using fossil fuels, it would involve pumping 175,000 tCo2 into the atmosphere every year. Producing the same amount of power using sunlight is the equivalent of planting 1.5 million trees or taking 15,000 cars off the road.
This Plant was developed by Shams Power Company, a joint venture between Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company (60%), French oil giant Total (20 %) and Spanish energy infrastructure company Abengoa Solar (20%). There are also larger concentrated solar energy projects that are near completion, but aren’t yet plugged into their local grids. Similar to this project, Shams 2 and Shams 3 plants are also in the way.
- Kenya To Build The Largest Solar Plant
Chinese firms have partnered with the Kenyan government to build the largest solar plant ever seen in Kenya. The firms, China Jiangxi Corporation for International Economic & Technical Co, Ltd. (CJIC) and the manufacturers of the Chinese photovoltaic...
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Canadian Solar has supplied solar modules for an 8.5 MW power plant in Lindenhof near Neubrandenburg in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Berlin-based saferay expects to complete the project next month. With this cooperation to build the Lindenhof...
- Biggest Floating Solar Power Plant Built In Hyogo
Article originally published on www.jw.asahi.com, in May 26th, 2015KASAI, Hyogo Prefecture--The world's largest floating solar power plant has been built on Sakasamaike Pond here.A ceremony was held May 24 to mark the completion of the mega...
- Kyocera Tcl Completes Work On Floating Mega-solar Plants
Article originally published in http://www.greentechlead.com/, on april 21st 2015Kyocera TCL Solar has completed construction of two floating mega-solar power plants in Kato city, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.The joint venture company formed by Kyocera...
- City Of Masdar Unveils 100mw Shams I Solar Project In Uae
Article published on http://solar.cleantechnology-business-review.com/news on March, 18th 2013By CTBR staff writer The city of Masdar in the UAE has unveiled the Shams 1 concentrated solar power plant in partnership with its partners, Total...