TotalEnergies and its partners QatarEnergy, and Marubeni have inaugurated the Al Kharsaah solar power plant, which is connected to the national grid.
The power plant has 800 MW of installed solar capacity and 2 million high-efficiency bifacial modules mounted on single-axis trackers. These modules can capture the sun’s direct rays from one side and reflected rays from the ground from the other side.
This power plant, which is spread across a 1,000-hectare terrain, is the first large scale photovoltaic plant in Qatar. It is developed and operated by Siraj 1, jointly owned by the TotalEnergies and Marubeni consortium (40%) and QatarEnergy Renewable Solutions (60%).
A 25-year Power Purchase Agreement has been signed by Siraj 1 and the power grid operator Kahramaa for this project.
It can supply 10% of the peak power demand in the country and avoid 26 million tons of CO2 emissions during the power plant’s lifetime.
“After our recent entry in the giant LNG projects NFE and NFS alongside QatarEnergy, we are proud to announce today the start-up of the Al Kharsaah solar plant. This giant project, which contributed to the sustainability roadmap of Qatar, demonstrates once again TotalEnergies' ability to support producing countries in their energy transition by combining natural gas production and solar energy to meet the growing demand for electricity”, said Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TotalEnergies. “This is another milestone in our long-standing and trustful relationship with QatarEnergy, also bringing us closer to our goal of 35 GW of production capacity by 2025.”
