Masdar City
Masdar City
Masdar City
PRESENTED BY
KARTHIK KRISHNA 2K15/EN/027
KUMAR SOURABH 2K15/EN/028
Masdar City
Masdar is planned to
be a zero carbon,
zero waste city.
A city with
sustainable
transport,
sustainable
materials,
sustainable food,
sustainable water.
Masdar City
Photovoltaic Cells
Parabolic Reflectors
Masdar City Solar
Photovoltaic Plant
The facility produces about 17,500
megawatt-hours of clean electricity annually
and offsets 15,000 tonnes of carbon
emissions per year.
Quick Facts
Facility area: 210,000 square metres
Equipment: 87,777 modules (18,228 by
Suntech, 69,489 by First Solar)
Installed capacity: 10-megawatt peak
Energy generation: 17,564 megawatt-hours
annually
Emission reductions: 15,000 tonnes
annually
Consists of a
number of rows of
parallel transparent
glass tubes
connected to a
header pipe.
These glass tubes
are cylindrical in
shape.
Evacuated tube
collectors are
particularly useful
In addition to Power Generation:
This is aimed to
encourage modes of
commute like cycling
and pedestrians.
Masdar City has terracotta walls built in a
traditional arabesque pattern to beat the
scorching heat of the desert.
TEMPERATURE DROP ACHIEVED
The
temperature in
the streets is
generally 15 to
20 °C (27 to
36 °F) cooler
than the
surrounding
desert.
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
The initial design banned automobiles.
Travel will be accomplished via public mass transit and
personal rapid transit (PRT) systems
The absence of motor vehicles coupled with Masdar's
perimeter wall, has kept the temperature down.
BEACON OF CLEAN ENERGY OR GHOST TOWN IN THE MAKING??
Masdar City was supposed to represent the future of sustainable energy and, for
a while, it did that. More than a decade in development, the planned community
on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi is falling well short of its original goals. Now, what
might have been the sparkling gem of the United Arab Emirates is on its way to
becoming the world’s first green ghost town.
Due to the impact of the global financial crisis, the initial 1,000,000 square
metres (0.39 sq mi) was estimated for completion in 2015; final completion was
pushed back to between 2020 and 2030.
These days, Masdar City is inhabited solely by students of the
Institute of Science and Technology – around 300 or so of them.