Dubai and Saudi Arabia Are Investing Advanced Solar Power Systems

Dubai and Saudi Arabia are reportedly developing solar power systems as a solution to variegate the energy sector in the two nations in the next ten years.

The Arab News has recently reported the major purpose Saudi Arabia is planning to invest the new plan of solar power is to help the nation to avoid depending much on oil as it has been for many decades.

In the promising plan, both nations will focus on concentrated solar power or CSP – the technology of solar power has attracted a lot of attention from the world in recent years. However, the difference between the advanced technology and other technologies including photovoltaic cells is that it has clearly got less attention from the press.

If other technologies like photovoltaic panels use photons collected from sunlight to turn these photons into some kinds of direct current, the system of concentrated solar power makes use of heat from sunlight to change water to water vapour. This kind of heat helps to rotate turbines and produce electricity.

The CSP system arranges a chain of mirrors to create suitable angles that will reflect sunlight to a special receiver at the tower’s peak. The amount of water inside the receiver will be piped from below to higher and then turned into vapour. In the next stage, the vapour will rotate a turbine, re-changed into the water, and return the tower to start a new process.

Meanwhile, Dubai is constructing a CSP project with a 260-meter-high solar tower. The power energy created by a renewable resource all hours per day is expectedly enough for 320,000 people and will reduce 16 lakhs tons of carbon emitted into the atmosphere each year. Along with the completion of the project, we can limit the carbon emissions by over 65 lakh tons per year.