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Location of the plant
Scheme of the plant
In the frame of the new Algerian law on
electricity and public distribution of gas for channeling n ° 02-01 of
February 5, 2002 to satisfy the national demand to reach national goals
for power using renewable energies. To increase the share of renewable
energies to the national power consumption, Abengoa will construct a
150 MW Integrated Solar Combined Cycle power plant.
The plant, located in Hassi R'Mel in
northern Algeria, is composed of a conventional combined cycle and a
solar field with a nominal thermal power of 95 MWth.
The goal of this project is to integrate
the solar thermal technology in a conventional power plant. This
combined use reduces the cost and facilitates the deployment of
renewable energies in new industrializing countries.
This project is being promoted by Solar
Power Plant One (SPP1), an Abener and NEAL joint venture formed for this
purpose, and will operate and exploit the plant for a period of 25
years. The Algerian state society, Sonatrach, will buy all of the power
produced. The plant will be composed of a 25-MW solar field of parabolic
trough technology that will provide complementary thermal energy to a
150‑MW combined cycle.
The reflecting surface of the solar field
will be over 180.000 m2. This innovative project will use the heat
generated in the same steam turbine that makes use of the waste heat
from the gas turbine for electricity. This configuration is doubly
effective. On one hand, it minimizes the investment associated with the
solar field by sharing components with the combined cycle. It also
reduces the CO2 emissions associated with a conventional plant.
The solar field is composed of 216 solar
collectors in 54 loops with an inlet heat transfer fluid temperature of
560 ºF and an outlet temperature of 740 ºF. |
