25-megawatt solar plant launched in Oman
By: Times News Service
Muscat: Oman Shell launched the 25-megawatt Qabas solar plant, helping the port and free zone in Sohar to become more sustainable and demonstrating the commercial benefits of solar power for industrial purposes. Owned by Shell, Sohar Solar Qabas is the company’s first utility-scale, photovoltaic (PV) solar project in the Middle East and Oman.
The plant is located on a 50-hectare site within Sohar Freezone, northern Oman, and consists of over 88,000 solar modules. The renewable electricity output from Qabas is supplied to a large ferrochrome production facility, displacing the equivalent gas-fired power generation taken from the grid and avoiding more than 25,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions annually.