Comments on: Middle East–Africa Solar PV Demand Will Increase 625% This Year

By: Small-Scale CSP Has Potential In Developing Countries -- 63 GW? | CleanTechnica

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:02:43 +0000

[…] // // Getting back to this report, James Rawlins, Associate Director and author of the report commented: ”Small-scale concentrated solar power has major potential for a number of niche markets in developing countries, such as industrial heat. However, to date this potential has not yet been realised bar some interesting developments in India, by far the leading global market. With further demonstration to leverage this Indian experience we believe the technology could play an important role in providing low carbon energy and economic development in Latin America and Africa.” […]

By: ab

ab — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:28:00 +0000

Construction of Ouarzazate Phase I, 160 MW CSP has started…

From http://www.csp-world.com/news/20130124/00723/prequalification-process-second-phase-ouarzazate-csp-complex-launched

The Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (Masen) has announced on
January, 23 the prequalification process for the second phase of the
Ouarzazate CSP complex has kicked off.

The Ouarzazate CSP Next Program, as it’s named by the agency, seeks to develop 300 MW of CSP at the site, where a first phase has begun to be built by the winning consortium comprised by Saudi’s ACWA and Spain’s Aries and TSK. The first phase includes a parabolic trough plant of 160 MW with three hours of solar thermal storage.

By: Folatt

Folatt — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 06:31:00 +0000

Oh sure, you can have 625% growth rate now, but every single other year it won’t be more than 50.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:48:00 +0000

man, too bad i didn’t edit this article — that picture of me at Shams 1 clearly shows the power plant has long past broken ground.

By: Bill_Woods

Bill_Woods — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:15:00 +0000

“Abu Dhabi’s Masdar this past weekend announced that it had broken ground on Shams 1, one of the largest concentrating solar power (CSP) plants in the world. With strong support from the World Bank Group, Morocco is building a 500 MW CSP plant at Ouarzazate, a project that is expected to be completed in 2015.”

Shams 1 hasn’t ‘broken ground’, it’s been completed.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/nation/inside.asp?xfile=/data/nationgeneral/2013/March/nationgeneral_March386.xml&section=nationgeneral

However, the Moroccan plant hasn’t started construction yet. An article I can’t read starts, “An ACWA Power-led consortium is nearing financial close on the $1 billion first stage of the Ouarzazate concentrating solar power (CSP) …”
Project Finance Magazine (subscription)-Mar 1, 2013