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Stellantis Morocco has launched a solar-powered charging station at its Motor Village Bouskoura headquarters, developed through the group’s Star*Up intrapreneurship program and designed by a Morocco-based Stellantis engineer, La Vie éco reports. The station offers a fully autonomous, off-grid charging and energy-storage system meant to expand access to clean mobility in areas where charging infrastructure […]
OCP Green Energy has switched on a large battery storage system at its mining site in Benguerir, capable of storing electricity for up to five hours to work alongside the site’s existing solar plant, supplying power when solar output drops and during peak-demand hours, 7News Morocco reports. The 25 MW/125 MWh lithium iron phosphate battery […]
Libya generated about $15.2 billion from its oil and gas sector during the first eight months of 2026, according to data released by the Ministry of Oil and Gas. The revenues, covering January 1 to August 31, 2026, included approximately $11.9 billion from crude oil exports and $2.4 billion from oil-related taxes and royalties. Another […]
Zurich-based cleantech company Synhelion has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the government of Morocco for the development of a large-scale commercial synthetic fuel plant in the north African country. The $ 1 billion facility will be located in Morocco’s southern Tan-Tan province and will have an annual capacity of 100,000 tons of renewable […]
A Moroccan delegation will take part in a meeting to be organized by U.S. Trade development Agency in Houston on Sept.24 to discuss natural gas opportunities offered in Morocco which is expanding gas industry investments, including LNG imports, pipeline and storage capacity. These investments are creating opportunities for U.S. companies to supply LNG and natural […]
Libya’s internationally recognised Government of National Unity announced on Sunday that it had dismantled an organised sabotage cell allegedly responsible for suicide drone attacks on oil and electricity facilities in Tripoli and Zawiya. Five Libyan and foreign nationals were arrested during an operation conducted by the Ministry of Defense, according to a statement published on […]
Morocco produces dense, technologically sophisticated research on smart electrical grids, but that academic activity has yet to translate into a structural transformation of the country’s energy system, according to a systematic review by researchers at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), reported by Le Matin daily. Of 291 studies identified across four international scientific databases, 91 […]
A consortium led by renewable energy consultancy OWC has been chosen by the European Investment Bank (EIB) to provide a comprehensive feasibility study for the development of Morocco’s first offshore windfarm. The offshore wind project in question is endorsed by the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (MASEN) and will be assessed with a particular focus […]
Morocco is accelerating investment in data centers and artificial-intelligence infrastructure, but behind the billions of dirhams pledged and the megawatts announced lies a less visible question: where will the electricity come from? The Igoudar Numérique green data center campus in Dakhla is targeting a capacity of 500 megawatts, while an AI-focused facility in Nouaceur aims […]
Spanish courts are once again being tested by Algiers’ relentless pursuit of political opponents abroad, this time targeting Algerian businessman and media figure Ayoub Aissiou. Detained at Barcelona’s El Prat airport since late July 2026 on an Algerian extradition request, Aissiou faces the real prospect of being handed over to a regime notorious for crushing […]