Marubeni will build UAE solar power 1.18 GW Bashny.Net

Sino-Japanese company will build in the Eastern part of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi solar power plant that will be one of the largest in the world: its area will be 7.8 km2 and has a capacity of over 1 GW.Solar farm in the UAE Marubeni plans to build and launch by 2019. The total cost of construction of the station is estimated at $868 million, and the Management of the Abu Dhabi electricity and water (ADWEA) will pay 60% of the rent for the land. For the remaining 40% of meet Japan's Marubeni and the Chinese solar panel manufacturer JinkoSolar.





In September last year, Marubeni was offered at auction in the United Arab Emirates the lowest price on energy from the sun of 2.42 cents per kW/h, thus beating the previous record that was set in August at auction in Chile (then energy company SunEdison offered a price of 2.91 cents per 1 kW/h).

The new power plant Marubeni in the UAE will be the second largest in the world after the Chinese solar Park in Nine 2 GW, which builds the company Minsheng New Energy Investment. The construction of the Chinese stations, consisting of 6 million solar panels began in April 2015, and in June last year, the project was already halfway completed.





At the moment the largest solar farm in the world is the solar Park at the reservoir of Lunasa in China: its area is 23 km2 and has a capacity of 850 MW. Second place is a solar power company Adani in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu with a capacity of 648 MW and a total area of 10 km2. published

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Source: hightech.fm/2017/01/30/marubeni-solar-plant