Morocco Setting Up World¡¯s Biggest Solar Plant, But Our Madhya Pradesh Will Still Produce More Electricity!

Until last year, the world's biggest solar plant was coming up in Madhya Pradesh, but Morocco¡¯s ¡®Noor 1¡¯ took that title. In February this year, Morocco¡¯s first solar power plant was switched on, inaugurated edge of the Sahara desert, around 20km outside Ouarzazate.

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500 megawatts of electricity

With an electricity production capacity of 160 megawatts, Noor 1 is supposed to allow Morocco to significantly reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. The project¡¯s next phases ¨C Noor 2 and Noor 3 ¨C are to follow this year.

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It will be, in full capacity, ¡°the largest concentrated solar power plant in the world¡± and produce 500 megawatts of electricity, providing power to more than one million Moroccans by 2018, its developers said, and reduce Morocco¡¯s carbon emissions by 760,000 tons per year.

At 750 MW, our Madhya Pradesh plant will still beats Morocco

However, the upcoming solar plant in Madhya Pradesh, thought to be the world¡¯s biggest (till now), will produce 750 mw of electricity - 250 MW more than Morocco! The plant will start generating solar energy by March 2017. The project -- Rewa Ultra Mega Solar -- is a joint venture of Solar Energy Corporation of India and MP Urja Vikas Nigam, where in both parties have 50 % stake. In February 2015, Narendra Modi, as BJP's prime ministerial candidate, inaugurated Asia's largest solar power project at Neemuch.

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Morocco launched construction of Noor 1 in 2013 at a cost of $660 million and involving roughly 1,000 workers. Spread over an area equivalent to more than 600 football pitches, the plant¡¯s half a million metal mirrors follow the sun as it moves across the sky.

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