RABAT: A consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power International has won a €1.7bn contract to build two solar power plants totalling 350 megawatts in the southern Moroccan city of Ouarzazate, the Moroccan Solar Energy Agency (Masen) said in a statement.
The two plants are the second phase of the 500 MW Ouarzazate project, which is part of a government plan to produce 2 gigawatts of solar power by 2020, equivalent to about 38 percent of Morocco’s current installed generation capacity. ACWA Power is already building a 160 MW plant in the first stage of the project in the Ouarzazate area.
Acwa’s consortium, which includes Spain’s Sener, had priced its offer at 1.36 dirhams per KW for the first 200 MW plant with parabolic mirror technology, while it priced the plant with solar power tower technology at 1.42 dirhams per KW. Reuters
