Abu Dhabi’s $600M Solar Power Plant - Solar Feeds

Abu Dhabi’s $600M Solar Power Plant - Solar Feeds

Abu Dhabi’s $600m solar power plant , The Shams 1 is spread over 2.5 kilometers and is expected to generate 100 MW of power annually. The project is the first utility scale, commercial solar power project for Abu Dhabi and the enclosing region. The outcome of a joint venture between Masdar, Total and Abengoa, the strong technical union has been developed under a 25 year build contract of owning and operating it collectively. The on site location of the solar power plant will consist 768 parabolic trough collectors and they are collectively expected to achieve 7 percent of Abu Dhabi’s target production of renewable energy capacity by 2020. Along with the collectors, there are 285,048 parabolic trough mirrors, 192 solar collector assembly loops and 8 solar collector assemblies for every loop. Also not to forget there will be 27,648 absorber pipes. A new technology has been d...

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