Dubai: The energy giant Shell has gone live with a 25MW solar plant in Sohar, Oman. The project - Shell s first utility scale, photovoltaic (PV) solar project in the Middle East - will help Sohar s port and free zone tap into green energy for its needs.
The Sohar Solar Qabas plant is located on a 50-hectare site within Sohar free zone, and consists of over 88,000 solar modules. The electricity output is supplied to a large ferrochrome production facility, in turn displacing the equivalent gas-fired power generation taken from the grid. It will end up reducing 25,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions annually.