AIT BAHA Project
Concentrating Solar Power Plant
Morocco
Ait Baha, Morocco
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Project rationale
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Strategic
Guidelines
▶ Enlarging the installed generation capacity
▶ Balancing the sources mix from RE
▶ Pioneering new Business Models
▶ Spreading Sustainable Development culture
Ait Baha project consists in the realization of a concentrated solar power (CSP) plant having
the aim of validating the expected performance and checking the potential for additional and
new applications inside the Group.
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Contents
CSP plants overview
Project description
Final remarks
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Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants generate
electricity utilizing the solar energy
CSP plants consist of two main
parts:
▶ one that concentrate (focus) the
sunlight using mirrors and
convert it into high-temperature
heat and
▶ another that converts the heat
energy into electricity.
All CSP technological approaches require large areas for solar radiation collection.
Source: Technology Roadmap CSP IEA 2010
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Concentrating solar technologies exist in four common forms
Parabolic troughs
Fresnel reflectors
Linear parabolic
concentrators where
sunlight is concentrated
onto a receiver placed in
the trough’s focal line.
Parallel rows of mirrors
flat or slightly curved to
reflect the sun’s rays
onto a downward facing
linear receiver.
Concentrate the sunlight
on a receiver placed in
the focal point above the
centre of the dish.
Use thousands of small
reflectors to concentrate
the sunlight on a central
receiver placed at the top
of a fixed tower.
Parabolic dishes
Solar towers
Source: Energy Week - MIP - F. Frattini
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We are installing a solution completely different from the traditional...
TRADITIONAL
TECHNOLOGY
Mirrors
Structure Frame
Heat Transfer Fluid
Heat Storage
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Flexible pneumatic
Rigid
Precast fiber reinforced concrete
Metal
Air
Synthetic oil, molten salt
Gravel of basalt
Molten salt
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…with the scope to validate the performance of each single component
Mirrors
▶ concentrate more sun light
▶ easy to manufacture, transport and install
Structure Frame
▶ guarantee the right mirror shape
▶ predominant use of local available materials
Heat Transfer Fluid
▶ temperatures well above 600°C
▶ air is non-toxic and for free
▶ no dangerous or flammable fluids used
Heat Storage
▶ higher flexibility of power modulation
Higher
thermodynamic
efficiency
Lower
generation cost
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Contents
CSP plants overview
Project description
Final remarks
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First, we identified the most suitable location and dimensioned the
plant…
 Among ITC Group available sites, we have identified Ait Baha (Morocco) as the best
opportunity in terms of land availability, solar irradiation and already existing infrastructures.
 The pilot plant consists of 3 solar modules and a new heat exchanger integrated in the
existing cogeneration system.
K.P.I.
Project
Main Data
▶ 2.5 hectares of occupied land
▶ Land optimization (MWh/m2)
▶ 3 solar modules (216 x 11 meters)
▶ Maintenance (€/MWh)
▶ 6,055 m2 of total reflecting surface
(less than a football field)
▶ Efficiency (%)
▶ 6,400 MWh of net thermal production
▶ 1,000 MWh of gross electric production
▶ Less than 1 m3/day of water consumption
(300 m3/year)
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▶ Dispatchability level (heq/y)
▶ Production (MWh/y)
▶ Water Consumption (m3/y)
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The heat captured through the solar modules will be added to the
one recovered by the thermal oil circulating in close contact with the
waste heat of the kiln hot gases.
Existing
Cogeneration
System
New
CSP plant
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Overview of the factory with the solar field
Solar
collectors
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Solar modules view from west
Hot air
pipeline
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Solar
collectors
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CSP modules and hot air pipelines
Hot air
pipeline
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Existing generator building and new heat exchanger
Turbogenerator
building
Heat
exchanger
Hot air
pipeline
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Thermal
oil pipeline
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Contents
CSP plants overview
Project description
Final remarks
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Final Remarks
Next year Italgen will add to its portfolio the first CSP pilot plant, being in the position to record
data and make comparisons with technologies already exploited.
Technological Maturity
Wind
▶ CapEx (M€/MW):
1.1-1.8
▶ Capacity Factor (h/y):
1,300-3,000
▶ LCOE (€/MWh):
60-100
▶ Profitability (IRR%):
10 - 20
Hydro
CSP
▶ CapEx (M€/MW):
4.0-5.0
▶ Capacity Factor (h/y):
1,800-8,000
▶ LCOE (€/MWh):
150-315
▶ Profitability (IRR%):
n.a.
▶ CapEx (M€/MW):
2.5-3.5
▶ Capacity Factor (h/y):
3,000-5,000
▶ LCOE (€/MWh):
60-65
▶ Profitability (IRR%):
10 - 15
PV
▶ CapEx (M€/MW):
1.5-2.5
▶ Capacity Factor (h/y):
1,000-2,000
▶ LCOE (€/MWh):
125-230
▶ Profitability (IRR%):
up to incentive scheme
Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance
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LCOE: Levelized Cost of Energy
Timing
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