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The 150 MW Noor Ouarzazate III solar tower power plant with storage system accomplished the first synchronization

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Ouarzazate (Morocco), 26 September 2018 –The engineering and technology group SENER is about to start the final tests at Noor Ouarzazate III, after completing, last August, the first synchronization of the 150 MW Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant to the Moroccan grid. With these milestones, SENER starts the last phase before the plant’s commercial operation and final delivery to the client.

This plant is the second unit designed and built by SENER using its own central receiver tower and molten salt heat storage technology, and one of the first ones in the world to apply this configuration on a commercial scale.

The high performance of this technology – the molten salt reaches higher temperatures than other CSP technologies, which maximizes thermodynamic efficiency – allows to manage the solar energy in absence of solar radiation and respond to the grid’s demand.

This is a unique characteristic of CSP that radically changes the role of renewable sources in the global power supply. Further information.

 

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