Shanghai Electric reveals progress with 700-MW CSP project in Dubai

• China's Shanghai Electric Group Co (SHA:601727) has announced it has actually accomplished numerous crucial milestones in construction of the 700-MW Noor Energy I tower and trough concentrated solar energy (CSP) project in Dubai.

The Chinese company is the design, procurement and construction (EPC) professional for Noor Energy I, which will also feature a 250-MW solar PV section alongside a 100-MW CSP tower and three 200-MW parabolic trough plants.

The initial molten salt container hydro examination for the Parabolic Trough Plant-II (PT2) was carried out on May 9, followed by a finalised molten salt pipeline installment inside the CSP tower, Shanghai Electric said.

The PT2 will have 8 tanks to store nitrate, the warm storage space medium for the plant. Each storage tank gauges 45 metres (147.6 feet) in diameter and 25,000 cubic metres (882,867 cubic feet) in ability.

On-site teams functioned under severe desert problems, which itself was a challenge to the test, and under-staffed due to labour lacks throughout Ramadan. However, the examination was completed promptly with the help of water trucks, which transferred and unloaded the water to provisional water containers through which the water was pumped right into the molten salt tanks, Shanghai Electric stated.

" [The] exceptional performance [of on-site employees] likewise assured the smooth progress of the CSP central tower pipe installation, which is the core and one of the most integral parts of the framework. The room in the tower is extremely tiny, provided the total length of the central tower interior pipes mores than 500 meters", said Zhao Hui, Project Manager of Dubai CSP Project of Shanghai Electric Power Generation Engineering Co

The 950-MW Noor Energy I project, named after the consortium promoting it, is the 4th phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. Noor Energy I financiers consist of ACWA Power, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and China's Silk Road Fund.

Shanghai Electric was additionally picked to give EPC services for the 900-MW fifth stage of the huge Mohammed container Rashid Al Maktoum solar development in Dubai.