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World Largest Solar Power Project Will Start in Morocco

The Noor project has 4 phases when all parts constructed; it will be the biggest in the world. Unless this period someone else build a bigger one. We think next biggest one probably will build in Dubai, they love big stuff.

Owen Castellanos
Owen CastellanosHardware & Gaming Reporter
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World Largest Solar Power Project Will Start in Morocco

The Noor project has 4 phases when all parts constructed; it will be the biggest in the world. Unless this period someone else build a bigger one. We think next biggest one probably will build in Dubai, they love big stuff.

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Solar Power project already started and Morocco already finished the first phase of the solar plant that called Noor-1. The first part has a capacity of 160 megawatts and supposed to reduce the emission of gases significantly. Estimate CO2 drop calculated as 240,000 per year. Noor-2 and Noor-3 will finish in 2016 and following year 2017. After that, they will start building Noor-4. When all the phases are completed, Noor will be covering an area of 11.6 sqm  ( 30 sq km. It can generate 580 megawatts energy and provide electricity to a million house. Morocco wants to raise renewable energy production to %42 of their total energy needs by 2020.
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This project will allow the Morocco less dependable to outside energy resources. The country is the biggest importer of the energy in the North Africa and Middle east. The country will save lots of money in the long term, and they can use this resource to built more project like this. And North Africa is a great place for installing solar panels.
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Owen Castellanos

Owen Castellanos

Hardware & Gaming Reporter

Owen Castellanos is the Hardware & Gaming Reporter at TrendinTech, where he tests graphics cards, processors, consoles and peripherals and follows the games industry, from the major publishers to independent studios. He previously wrote reviews and benchmarks for Tom's Hardware and contributed features to PC Gamer, covering everything from laptop testing to the economics of game development. Owen holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and attends CES in Las Vegas, Computex in Taipei and the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco each year to meet chipmakers and developers. He writes for readers who want to know whether a product is worth the money, and he is not shy about saying when it is not.

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