Desert complex will provide electricity for more than 1 million people when complete, helping African country to supply most of its energy from renewables by 2030
Morocco’s king will switch on the first phase of a concentrated solar power plant on Thursday that will become the world’s largest when completed.
The power station on the edge of the Saharan desert will be the size of the country’s capital city by the time it is finished in 2018, and provide electricity for 1.1 million people.
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