A joint project with France’s TotalEnergies and Japan’s Marubeni, the al Kharsaah plant will be able to provide up to 10 percent of Qatar’s energy supply
of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries for decades, before it left in 2019. More recently, it has been considering the use of solar power to provide energy to the Gulf nation.
It was launched in 2016 in partnership with France's TotalEnergies and Japan's Marubeni as part of a broader push by Qatar –– one of the world's biggest producers of liquified natural gas –– to invest in solar energy. Operational since June, the plant has a capacity of 800 megawatts and will "expand" further in coming years, Kaabi told a press conference.
Organisers of the FIFA World Cup, which begins on November 20, have used the huge solar plant to back claims that Qatar will host the first "net zero" World Cup.
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