The worlds largest and show sha might be another trick to get votes:
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/08/africa/ouarzazate-morocco-solar-plant/
Here are the facts:
Paksitan:
capacity to generate 1,000 MW
a cost of about $131 million
14 to 15 US cents per kWh
Morocco:
2,000 megawatts
$573.8bn - have a power cable link to
Europe
electricity produced for $0.19/kW·h
So it isnt the largest ... Unless they mean largest in size? That I dont know much about...Morocco is using different cells hence the expense but still costly though!
I guess it was, under plans, until Morocco decided to go bigger. But thats not the point here. People are getting something out of it and thats good.
Some facts for you:
Solar Park producing 12pc more power than target’
LAHORE: The Quaid-i-Azam Solar Park, Bahawalpur, the first ever DC installation in Pakistan, is currently producing up to 12pc more power than the energy production requirements set by the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra).
The first phase of the plant was completed in March last when it started producing 100 megawatt.
“The plant is giving an average yield of 169 gigawatt hour against the annual target of 153GW hour to meet 153 million units production requirement,” says Najam Ahmed Shah, the chief executive officer of the Quaid-i-Azam Solar Power (pvt) Limited.
Speaking to Lahore-based reporters at the site for the QASP on Tuesday, Shah said extra profits coming from the first phase of 100MW plant would be shared with the distribution companies and people under Nepra rules.
Responding to a question about controversies over the project, he said 1,000MW solar park only required capital expenditure in the form of financial loans as its production didn’t require any fuel while its maintenance cost was negligible. “The solar energy can be the cheapest mode of power in Pakistan if commercial loans are available on easy terms.”
Shah told a questioner that the solar panels spread across 500 acre produced maximum energy when sun rays were maximum and produced less power in high temperatures. He said the comparison of solar radiation and temperature in Pakistan with Germany suggested that panels in Pakistan would produce 33pc more power than Germany.
Dr Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan, focal person for QASP, told reporters that in first phase 100MW power had already been connected with the power distribution system while 300MW power plants were at final stage and expected to produce solar power by the end of December.
He said the remaining 600MW power plants would be set up in third phase starting in January 2016.
Dr Khan said the QASP would be able to get claim for carbon credit as the Clean Development Mechanism Additionality (CDMA) had also conducted analysis through on-site survey for our claim. He said the carbon claim was only linked with solar power generation as 70pc thermal generation in Pakistan was emitting high levels of carbon dioxide in atmosphere.
About solar power tariff controversy, Dr Khan said the present tariff was 14.15 cents which was expected to drop to single digit next year keeping in view the increasing trend of solar installations and production globally.
Earlier, briefing the journalists on capacity factor and energy production comparison, the CEO said the average efficiency of 100MW plant over the years was 80pc with average 20pc plant losses. He said the DC plant would suffer 20pc losses because of conversion into AC.
The monthly revenue (including tax) reached its peak of over Rs320 million in September from Rs3.548 million in March this year; 67.8 million units were exported against feasibility target of 64.9 million units and 62.2 million units Nepra target during cumulative energy production comparison for invoiced months. He said the cost of 100 MW solar plant is $131.15 million.
Comparing few countries for installed solar power and potential for solar in various countries, Shah said irradiation for 100 MW installed plant in Pakistan was 1,920 KWh/m compared to India’s 1,900 against 4GW installed capacity, China 1,700 (28GW), and Germany 1,100 (38GW).
The solar energy fits very well into Pakistan’s energy situation (fuel imports, land curve) while the country is a good location for solar energy (e.g better than Germany, Spain or China).
The visit to the site showed that the 100 MW solar power plant was injecting power into national grid through a centralised monitoring system while Chinese company Zonergy was currently raising PV plant and substations at three 100 MW plants each. A 220 KV grid station is being installed for producing and transmitting 600 MW next year.
The QASP is being guarded by 700 security officials of the Special Protection Unit headed by an SP rank officer. The SPU is giving outer and internal cover to 675 Chinese workers and few other foreigners.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1217587/
Ceremony in Morocco marks progress on 500MW solar park
Morocco held a three-in-one ceremony on Thursday for the first two phases of what will be one of the world’s largest solar parks at over 500 megawatts of capacity.
A ceremony was held in Ouarzazate to officially inaugurate Noor 1 and break ground on the second phase, which includes the Noor 2 and 3 projects.
The Noor 1 phase, totalling 160MW of capacity, was scheduled to be officially launched before the end of last year, but the ceremony was postponed by Moroccan officials.
Paddy Padmanathan, chief executive of Saudi Arabia’s Acwa Power and the lead developer of the project, said that only the ceremony had been delayed, but that the plant had come online as scheduled in 2015.
Acwa and its technical partner Sener of Spain signed the public private partnership agreement with the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (Masen) for Noor 1 in 2013. The Saudi firm has gone on to successfully bid for the Noor 2 and 3 phase, totalling 200MW and 150MW, respectively, with a total investment of about US$3 billion.
“We’re very comfortable in Morocco as an investment destination,” Mr Padmanathan said. “We will continue to investment more.”
Morocco, unlike its North African neighbours, has few hydrocarbon assets such as oil and gas and has a high import bill because it is forced to tap sources abroad to meet more than 90 per cent of its energy needs.
Therefore, the country has set out an ambitious target to have renewable energy make up 42 per cent of its power generation mix by 2020, which will then increase to 50 per cent by 2030.
And Morocco is poised to do just that, particularly as it showcases some of the lowest solar pricing yet for concentrated solar power (CSP) technology, which typically costs more compared with photovoltaic applications because it has storage capabilities.
According to the Abu Dhabi-based International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena), the average cost of electricity generated from CSP ranges between 22 US cents and 25 cents per kilowatt hour.
Yet, as is typically the case when Acwa bids for a project, such as in Dubai last year, in Morocco the company came in with rates that beat the average price by about 30 per cent.
For Noor 2, the bid came in at 15.67 US cents per kilowatt hour while offering a tariff for the Noor 3 of 16.31 cents.
Morocco’s energy minister, Abdelkader Amara, said at the Paris climate summit in December that the Ouarzazate solar programme has already given the country significant savings on energy costs in its first year.
and some people have the audacity to question a new govt in KPK in its 1st round as a govt, of a very much ignored province....kind of shows how much you think of Noon - their 3 decades of experience in 1 place is = to 1st round govt in an underdeveloped province 
