The NOOR I (Ouarzazate) CSP – Molten Salt Energy Storage System is a 160,000kW energy storage project located in Ouarzazate, Souss-Massa, Morocco.
The thermal energy storage project uses molten salt as its storage technology. The project was commissioned in 2016.
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Description
The NOOR I (Ouarzazate) CSP – Molten Salt Energy Storage System was developed by ACWA Power International, Aries Clean Energy, SENER Grupo de Ingenieria and TSK Group. The project is owned by Acwa Power Ouarzazate (50%) and Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (50%).
The key applications of the project are renewables capacity firming and renewables energy time shift.
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By GlobalDataACWA Power International, Acwa Power Ouarzazate, Aries Clean Energy, Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy, SENER Grupo de Ingenieria and TSK Group have delivered the project.
Additional information
The objective of the Noor-Ouarzazate Concentrated Solar Power Plant Project for Morocco is to increase (a) installed capacity (megawatts) and (b) electricity output (megawatt-hours), especially during peak hours, of the Noor-Ouarzazate Solar Complex. The project consists of two components. (1) Financing the initial investment component consists of (A) development of Noor-Ouarzazate II through the formation of a partnership between Moroccan Solar Energy Agency (MASEN) and a competitively-selected partner; (B) construction of the associated facilities needed for Noor-Ouarzazate II?s operation; (C) development of Noor-Ouarzazate III through the formation of a partnership between MASEN and a competitively-selected partner; and (D) construction of the associated facilities needed for Noor-Ouarzazate operation. Financing for construction of the associated facilities under sub-components (B) and (D) is covered by separate financing from donors to ONEE that has already been committed.
About ACWA Power International
ACWA Power International (ACWA Power) is a power generation company. It is engaged in providing power and desalinated water at low cost efficiently. It also supplies electricity and potable water to its customers. It generates power through coal, oil, gas, thermal, solar and wind technologies. ACWA Power also offers operation and maintenance services to power and water desalination industry through its subsidiary, the First National Operations & Maintenance Company. The company has operations across the Middle East, Africa and Asia. ACWA Power is headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
About Aries Clean Energy
Aries Clean Energy LLC (Aries Clean Energy) develops, designs, and builds innovative proprietary downdraft and fluidized bed gasification systems and projects and focuses on the disposal of biosolids, biomass, and waste, reduction of carbon emissions, production of clean thermal, and electrical energy. Aries Clean Energy is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee, the US.
About SENER Grupo de Ingenieria
SENER Grupo de Ingenieria SA (SENER) is a construction company that offers engineering services. The company’s services include marine infrastructures, environmental projects, hydraulic engineering, architecture and urban planning. It offers turnkey solutions and operates projects on space, aeronauticas and vehicles, defense and security, healthcare and solar energy. SENER provides engineering and systems integration of aerospace, infrastructure and transport, power and process; and marine. The company serves aerospace, infrastructure and transport, power, oil and gas, and marine sectors. It operates through its offices in Colombia, the UAE, the UK, the US, India, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Poland, Brazil, China, Algiers, Portugal, Santiago de Chile, Spain and South Korea. SENER is headquartered in Getxo, Spain.
About TSK Group
TSK Group (TSK) is a construction company. The company operates through its business divisions such as handling and mining, electrical and control infrastructures, power, oil and gas, and industry and environment. Its services include engineering, procurement, and construction, operation and maintenance, project development, installations, design and consulting, project management, commissioning, mechanical and electrical engineering, structural works, and others. TSK offers construction equipment such as vessel loaders and unloaders, rotating cranes, stackers and re claimers, combined rotary blades, and scrapers and hoppers, among others. The company also develops electrical projects in the energy, steel, telecommunications, metalworking, petrochemical, food, paper, cement, and fertilizer sectors. TSK is headquartered in Gijon, Spain.
Methodology
All publicly-announced energy storage projects included in this analysis are drawn from GlobalData’s Power IC. The information regarding the projects are sourced through secondary information sources such as country specific power players, company news and reports, statistical organisations, regulatory body, government planning reports and their publications and is further validated through primary from various stakeholders such as power utility companies, consultants, energy associations of respective countries, government bodies and professionals from leading players in the power sector.
