Morocco’s pioneering role in green energy sector highlighted by US news outlet

Morocco’s pioneering role and exemplary record in the sector of green energy have been highlighted by US news website “RealClear Defense” which pointed out that the North African Kingdom has risen to the challenge of green energy at a time when the insidious but ongoing crisis generated by climate change arguably puts the entire globe at risk.

In an an op-ed published under the title “Going Green: Morocco’s Exemplary Record”, Stephen Blank, senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, notes that the Kingdom, which exports significant amounts of green energy to Europe, has every reason to extend its existing investments in those sources of energy to strengthen that relationship, particularly as Europe itself moves away from fossil fuels.

Morocco has taken advantage of its year-round supply of sunlight and its enormous open spaces for investment in infrastructure of all kinds, the pundit points out, adding that the Kingdom plans to build the world’s largest concentrated solar project, the Noor Ouarzazate Solar Complex.

“By 2030 it plans to generate 52% of its own domestic electricity from renewables,” Blank underlines.

“Thanks to these efforts and the corresponding impact of climate change, European observers are coming to realize that Morocco is already playing a pioneering role in providing green energy and that this role will almost certainly expand throughout this decade,” the author of the Op-Ed stresses.

“Furthermore, Morocco’s example can and probably will lead other states, not least in Africa, to emulate its example,” the expert notes, adding that this process and course upon which Morocco is now embarked shows that solutions to the increasingly urgent challenge of climate change must increasingly be seen as requiring regional and trans-regional cooperation through large-scale investments and projects.