Qatar to inaugurate 800-MW solar park in Oct

• Qatar is readied to inaugurate the Al Kharsaah solar complex with a capacity of 800 MW this month, energy minister and president of QatarEnergy, Saad Al-Kaabi, said throughout the Energy Intelligence Discussion Forum in London.

The solar park will certainly satisfy 10% of the neighborhood electricity need, Al-Kaabi stated as mentioned by Qatari newspaper Al-Sharq.

Found on an area of over 1,000 ha concerning 80 kilometres (49.7 miles) west of the capital Doha, Al Kharsaah is the very first utility-scale solar park in Qatar. The center is outfitted with 2 million bifacial solar modules with trackers.

The project was awarded to a consortium of Japan's Marubeni Corp and French energy major TotalEnergies in the country's initial solar tender.

The Marubeni-TotalEnergies tie-up now jointly possesses 40% of the solar complex, while the staying 60% is held by Siraj Energy, a joint venture in between Qatari state-owned entities Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation (Kahramaa) as well as Qatar Petroleum.