THE FUTURE OF CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER PLANTS

Ain Beni Mathar, Morocco
Ain Beni Mathar
challenge
spx solution
customer benefits
scope of supply spx Cooling Technologies air-cooled
condensers (11)
owner l’Offi ce National de l’Electricité (ONE)
operated by Abengoa
capacity 172 MW steam turbine, 2 × 150 MW gas
turbine / 20 MW solar cycle
commissioning 2010
turbines Alstom GT13 E2
Integrated solar combined cycle power station comprising
a parabolic trough concentrating solar power array and a
combined cycle gas turbine plant, for a total power output
of 472 MW (including 20 MW solar)
Minimal water consuming spx air-cooled condensers
Lowest investment cost, minimum water and power
consumption and maximum availability
general
information
SPX Selected Solar References
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Covering an area of 1,600,000 m2 of
which 880,000 m2 for solar fi eld.
Currently the largest integrated solar
combined cycle plant in the world. It
operates 470 MW and produces more
than 3,800 GW/h of electricity annually.
The main novelty of the project is
the hybrid technology. It consists of a
solar fi eld of parabolic trough collectors
of which the useful refl ective area is
over 183,000 m2 . It has the capacity to
generate 20 MW. The rest comes from
the combined cycle technology, made
up of two gas turbines, 150 MW each, a
170 MW steam turbine (150 MW come
from the combined cycle with the
20 MW already mentioned from the
solar fi eld), recovery boilers and an
aero-condenser operate as the main
equipment.