The biggest in Africa wind power plant started

The new wind farm, located at Tarfaya in southwestern Morocco, has started generating electricity.

The assurances of the authorities, it will be able to meet the needs in electricity of several hundred thousand people.



Located on 10,000 hectares along the windswept South Atlantic coast, the power plant capacity of 300 megawatts consists of 131 turbines with a height of 80 meters.

As expected, in October of this year, it will produce the electricity that will contribute to the reduction of 900 thousand tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year. Work today so far, only 88 of the 131 wind turbines.

It should be noted that this North African Kingdom does not have its own hydrocarbon reserves, and hopes by 2020 to cover 42 percent of its needs in electricity by using energy from renewable sources. The government plans to produce 4,000 megawatts of energy from solar and wind power.

Last year, Morocco officially launched the construction of a 160-megawatt solar power plant in the desert near the city of Ouarzazate, which is scheduled for completion next year. Work in Tarfaya started in 2013. Carry out the project of construction of a wind farm in Moroccan firm Nareva Holding, together with the French company GDF Suez.

Cost about 500 million euros (690 million dollars), the wind farm will be on the African continent the largest target alternative energy, ahead of the Ethiopian Ashegoda project, with a capacity of 120 MW with 84 wind turbines in the composition.

In the South-West of Morocco is less powerful Akhfennir wind farm 60 wind turbines which are already developing 100 megawatts of electricity.













Source: greenevolution.ru