PROJECT DATA

SOLAR POWER PLANT

OUARZAZATE MOROCCO
Country:
As of: November 2018
Morocco

OBJECTIVE AND
Implementing organisation:
ACTIVITIES KfW Entwicklungsbank

The project provided funds for the construction of

the first, 160 MW strong power plant within the Partner institution(s):
Ouarzazate solar complex. The solar complex " Ministry of Energy, Mines, Water and
consists of one photovoltaic and three solar thermal Environment (MEMEE) - Morocco"
power plants with a combined power of 580 MW, Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (MASEN)
and is one of the largest solar power plants. The - Morocco
projects contributed directly to the implementation
of the Moroccan solar plan as well as the Union for BMU grant:
the Mediterranean’s (UfM) solar plan. The plant will € 15,000,000
generate power in an efficient, socially responsible Duration:
and environmentally sound manner, thereby 01/2012 till 12/2017
reducing greenhouse gas emissions and supporting
Website(s):
Morocco’s efforts to mitigate climate change. It
http://www.kfw-entwicklungsbank.de/Internat
aims to generate 370 gigawatts of electricity and
ional-financing/KfW-Development-Bank/Local-
reduce CO2 emissions by 230,000 tonnes annually.
presence/North-Africa-and-Middle-
Through the use of parabolilc and salt storage
East/Morocco/
technologies the project moreover encourages the
commercial launch of a more forward-looking
technology for the protection of the global climate. Fact sheet:
Supporting innovative technologies within the
STATE OF IMPLEMENTATION/RESULTS International Climate Initiative (IKI):
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) (PDF, 482
The solar plant NOORo I was inaugurated on KB)
4th February 2016 in the presence of King
Mohammed VI.
The technical start-up took place in January
2016.
In its first operative year the plant produced
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