Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has launched the building of the 70-MWNoor Ouarzazate IV PV plant.This fourth stage of the scheme is the PV portion of the 580-MW Ouarzazate Solar Power Station (OSPS), a CSP-PV solar power complex situated in central Morocco.
The complex involves the 160-MW Noor 1 CSP power stations, which was finished in February 2016, and the Noor 2 CSP and Noor 3 CSP, which are presently under development and will have a capacity of 200 MW and 150 MW..
The Noor Ouarzazate IV PV project is similarly part of the Noor PV 1 program, which contains the construction of a 30-MW PV plant in Laayoune and a 20-MW PV power station situated in Boujdour.
In November, the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (Masen) signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Saudi Arabia’s Acwa Power for the development of the three projects. Acwa Power signed the world’s biggest EPC company, Sterling and Wilson, to build the installations in late November.
