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Abu Dhabi Launch World's Largest Solar Plant by penzino(m): 1:24pm On Mar 18, 2013 |
Oil-rich Abu Dhabi on Sunday officially opened the world’s largest Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant, which cost $600 million to build and will provide electricity to 20,000 homes. The 100-megawatt Shams 1 is “the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant in operation” said Sultan al-Jaber, the head of Abu Dhabi’s Masdar, which oversees the emirate’s plan to generate seven percent of its energy needs by 2020 from renewable sources. “Today, Shams 1 is the largest CSP plant in all terms,” said Santiago Seage, chief executive officer of Abengoa Solar, one of the partners in the project. Several solar plants around the world use photovoltaic technology to harness solar power. Masdar now produces 10 percent of the world’s concentrated solar power, he said during the official inauguration. The solar park features long lines of parabolic mirrors spread over an area equivalent to 285 football pitches in the desert of the Western Region, some 120 kilometres (75 miles) southwest of Abu Dhabi. Masdar owns 60 percent of the project, while France’s Total and Spain’s Abengoa Solar own 20 percent each. Abu Dhabi is the wealthiest of the seven sheikhdoms that make up the federation of the United Arab Emirates.
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Re: Abu Dhabi Launch World's Largest Solar Plant by pat077: 3:03pm On Mar 18, 2013 |
hw can 100 mw supply electricity to 20,000 homes. They no dey use A/C? |
Re: Abu Dhabi Launch World's Largest Solar Plant by OIbhagui(m): 11:13am On Mar 23, 2013 |
Are you a science person? All you need to figure this out is a secondary school physics and maths competency and a practical sense of how people use electricity when they have common sense |
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