Noor 1 – intended to follow Masdar’s 100MW Shams 1 parabolic-trough CSP plant completed last year in Abu Dhabi – has faced a number of unexplained delays since it was first unveiled in 2011.
Several months after the project was announced, however, the whole of the Masdar organisation appeared to hit a speed bump, including a slimming of its staff and a reining-in of its near-term ambitions.
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