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Country with No Oil or Gas Reserves Plans $9 Billion in Solar Energy Systems Investment

Morocco, which plans to invest $9 billion to build five solar power stations, had opted for solar thermal technology for the first unit, to be set up in the southern Ourzazate area, its solar energy agency chief said. The North African country’s government had previously not revealed which solar technology it would choose, with officials [...]

Oct 4 2010 | Posted in Africa,Projects and Installations,Solar Investment,Technology,Utility Scale Solar Thermal | Read More »

Solar Thermal in Abu Dhabi – Plans for the World’s Largest Concentratred Solar Power Plant

The first of its kind and the largest Solar Thermal Energy plant is being planned for construction in the Middle East. Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s multi-faceted initiative advancing the development, commercialisation and deployment of renewable and alternative energy technologies and solutions, has appointed the bidding consortium of Total and Abengoa Solar as a partner to own, [...]

Jun 9 2010 | Posted in Concentrated Solar Power,Projects and Installations,Solar Thermal Industry News,U.A.E. | Read More »

Solutia Inc to Provide Heat Transfer Fluid to Solar Thermal Hybrid Plants

Solutia Inc. announced today that it will be supplying Therminol VP-1 synthetic heat transfer fluid to a new 470 MW hybrid solar plant in Ain-Ben-Mathar, Morocco and a 170 MW hybrid solar plant in Hassi R’Mel, Algeria. Both plants have 20 MW each of power output capacity from solar thermal oil-based parabolic trough collector fields [...]

Aug 21 2009 | Posted in Solar Hybrid,Solar Thermal Industry News | Read More »

Country with No Oil or Gas Reserves Plans $9 Billion in Solar Energy Systems Investment

Solar Thermal in Abu Dhabi – Plans for the World’s Largest Concentratred Solar Power Plant

Solutia Inc to Provide Heat Transfer Fluid to Solar Thermal Hybrid Plants

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