Noor Solar Power Plant: Soukanina El Idrissi Faouzi and her Work in the Plant

Soukanina El Idrissi Faouzi is a performance engineer of the Noor solar power plant: “Morocco aims to produce 52% of its energy from renewables by 2030,” says Soukaina El Idrissi Faouzi, performance engineer at the world’s largest solar complex, the Noor plant, near the city of Ouarzazate. ⁠
⁠The plant uses concentrated solar power technologies: large parabolic mirrors direct sunlight onto tubes filled with oil. As the oil warms, it exchanges energy with water, which is converted to steam and drives a turbine to generate electricity. ⁠
⁠There are 3,300 collectors at Noor’s two concentrated-solar sites and they need to be inspected daily. She also tracks the plant’s performance data alongside the weather.

On assignment for Nature, for the section Where I Work.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00548-0