The proposed new facility, a solar thermal plant known as Ma’aden Solar 1, will be located in Ras al Khair, a town in Saudi’s Eastern Province. The goal is for it to harness the power of the sun to produce steam. The steam will be used to refine bauxite ore into alumina.
“Ma’aden is leading the way to reduce industrial carbon emissions at scale by replacing fossil fuels with solar power to create heat,” Rod MacGregor, CEO and founder of GlassPoint, said in a media statement. “This facility, when built, will be the largest industrial solar steam plant in the world and the first deployed in both Saudi Arabia and in the aluminum supply chain.”
