REGION I OPPORTUNITY
This project was the first step in the Desertec plan and is now well on the way to ensuring they have the best team of solar professionals on board to ensure the farm is completed by 2015,when it is expected that the site could feed 340 MW of power each day
region, Allen & York are seeing an increased demand for renewable energy professionals to support the development of solar farms and solar thermal power plant.
Onshore & Offshore Wind Power Wind Energy within the MENA region grew 38% in 2009 according to The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and there are encouraging signs for wind power development in the MENA region in the coming years. Masdar intends to build a 20- 30MW wind farm on Sir Bani Yas Island off the western coast of Abu Dhabi. In North Africa, the expansion of wind power continues in Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia; Egypt not only saw the largest addition of new capacity in 2010 (120 MW), bringing the total up to 550 MW, but also continues to lead the region with the government setting ambitious targets of 20% of total electricity produced from renewable energy sources by 2020.
Combined Cycle Power
Another primary clean energy source for the MENA region is Combined Cycle Power (CCP); in fact the world’s first integrated renewable energy combined cycle power plant (CCPP) is being built in Turkey, by General Electric and eSolar. The design of the power plant integrates a traditional combined cycle plant with wind and solar energy, allowing it to generate electricity with much greater efficiency. The Karaman plant, due to start running in 2015, will have a capacity of approximately 530 megawatts which is enough to power over 600,000 Turkish homes.
In 2009 Morocco unveiled a US $9 billion plan to build five solar plants that would produce 2,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to power Morocco’s largest city, Casablanca. Furthermore (according to the Moroccan government) these solar farms could produce more than a third of the nation’s capacity by 2020.
This project was the first step in the Desertec plan and is now well on the way to ensuring they have the best team of solar professionals on board to ensure the farm is completed by 2015, when it is expected that the site could feed 340 MW each day to Spain.
Furthermore, the combination of all the planned Desertec projects could generate up to 15% of Europe’s electricity by 2050. With the increase of such solar projects in the MENA
The CCP Plant in Turkey will convert 69% of all the natural gas it consumes into electricity compared with most natural gas plants that convert no more than 50%. Following in Turkey’s footsteps is Saudi Arabia, which has announced plans to construct the world’s largest CCPP, which will provide enough energy to meet approximately one tenth of the country’s current power demand.
Renewable Energy Career Opportunities As we can see, the region’s fast-growing power demand is being increasingly met with the aid of advanced technologies within the renewable energy portfolio; Solar, Wind and CCPP power plants are enabling the Middle East to realise a more sustainable energy production model for the future.
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