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MOROCCO / SOLAR POWER
STORY: MOROCCO / SOLAR POWER
TRT: 2.07
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: JUNE 2010, AIN BENI MATHAR, MOROCCO
1. Zoom out, washing of solar panels
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Noureddine Badaoui, Head, Beni Mathar Solar Plant Project:
“We are combining two kinds of technology for the production of electric energy, concentrated solar thermal and combined cycle gas turbines, and this combination is unique.”
3. Med shot, worker in solar control station
4. Med shot, worker
5. Tilt down, from coolers to worker
6. Wide shot, worker
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Noureddine Badaoui, Head, Beni Mathar Solar Plant Project:
“By integrating thermo solar technology, we avoid annual air emissions of about 33,000 tons of CO two and we save natural gas. Using dry cooling technology also reduces water consumption by 5 million cubic meters per year, meaning water savings of 80%.”
8. Zoom out, solar panels
9. Med shot, plant
10. Zoom out, worker
11. Pan right, plant
12. Zoom out, workers walking
13. Med shot, two workers in plant
14. Zoom out, workers
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Morad Fiqiqi, Solar Plant worker:
“What I learned here can help me work in any other company because I can tell them that that I was involved in the first solar project in Morocco and they will recruit me, because people who work in this field are few.”
16. Pan left, village and mosque
17. Wide shot, road
18. Wide shots, plant
19. Zoom in, electric wires
20. Zoom out, workers walking
21. Pan left, plant
Morocco is setting a trend in renewable energy with the launch of a plant which integrates a solar field with natural gas based power.
SOUNDBITE (French) Noureddine Badaoui, Head, Beni Mathar Solar Plant Project:
“We are combining two kinds of technology for the production of electric energy, concentrated solar thermal and combined cycle gas turbines, and this combination is unique.”
The new power station ‘Beni Mathar Integrated Combined Cycle Thermal Solar Power Plant’ was funded by multiple donors, including the Global Environment Facility through the World Bank.
The 470 megawatt gas solar plant will produce around 3.5 terawatt hours per annum, enough to power a million homes.
SOUNDBITE (French) Noureddine Badaoui, Head, Beni Mathar Solar Plant Project
“By integrating thermo solar technology, we avoid annual air emissions of about 33,000 tons of CO two and we save natural gas. Using dry cooling technology also reduces water consumption by 5 million cubic meters per year, meaning water savings of 80%.”
The solar energy collected from parabolic mirrors boosts the steam flow of the plant’s heat recovery boilers.
This steam is transformed into electricity in the steam turbine.
In addition to providing cleaner and environmentally safe energy, the Integrated Solar Power plant, inaugurated by Morocco’s King, aims at helping economic and social development of the country’s eastern region where the plant is located.
Morad Fiqiqi and his friend Moussa Yassine were among the many labourers hired in building the plant. They say they’ve gained valuable technical skills they can use in finding other jobs.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Morad Fiqiqi, Solar Plant worker:
“What I learned here can help me work in any other company because I can tell them that that I was involved in the first solar project in Morocco and they will recruit me, because people who work in this field are few.”
The nearby village of Beni Mathar was given a new school, new mosque and new roads, as part of the solar plant project’s social dimension.
Ain Beni Mathar’s plant is part of a string of solar projects planned by Morocco to scale up renewable energy in the Kingdom.
These plants will supply power to Morocco, but could eventually even export green electricity to Europe.
Throughout the Middle East and North Africa, countries are now racing ahead to gain a competitive edge in a technology that many think could be a source of future economic growth.
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