`Noura` is the world's largest solar power plant in Morocco

ArabiaWeather.com- The "Noura" station, inaugurated by the King of Morocco last Thursday in the southeastern city of Ouarzazate, is the first phase of a project that is the largest of its kind in the world to generate solar energy .

Work on the project began on May 10, 2013, on an area of 450 hectares, containing half a million reflective mirrors, and is expected to produce about 160 megawatts of electricity.

The video shows the "Noura" solar power plant, the first phase of the "Noor-Ouarzazate" project, which extends over an area of 3,000 hectares, and aims to produce 580 megawatts of electricity; To supply about one million Moroccan homes with clean energy.

Morocco's ambitions do not depend on "Nour-Ouarzazate", as it is the first of five phases in an ambitious and large energy production project with an investment value of $9 billion, in a number of regions of the Kingdom that import 94% of their energy needs. It aspires to cover 42% of these needs through solar energy production by 2020.