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Morocco is set to bolster the share of renewable energy in its installed capacity to 43% by the end of the year, from 41% currently with a view to increasing its consumption of renewable energies to 52% of the global total by 2030, said head of Morocco’s water and electricity utility Abderrahim El Hafidi. Speaking […]
King Mohammed VI has urged the Government and all stakeholders to speed up the development of renewable energies, especially solar and wind energy, as well as green hydrogen and to endeavor to attract more domestic and foreign investment in the sector. Building on its progress, Morocco should accelerate the deployment of renewable energy in order […]
Morocco and Bahrain have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation in the sector of renewable energy, through exchange of expertise, technology transfer, capacity building and the consolidation of public and private investment in the sector. Under the deal that will support the implementation of several initiatives related to renewable energy, […]
Morocco and Saudi Arabia signed, on Monday in Riyadh, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on renewable energies and a Cooperation Framework Agreement on the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Cooperation between the two countries in the field of renewable energies and peaceful uses of atomic energy aims to meet their needs in terms of developing […]
Morocco has revised upwards its ambitions for renewable energies. The target, set for 2030, will be reached five years earlier, in 2025. The transition to a green economy is firmly underway. “This is undoubtedly one of the most important announcements made by the new Moroccan government,” commented La Vie Éco weekly magazine, deploring that this […]
Many years before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Morocco has adopted an inclusive development model based on renewable energies and a sustainable vision, said Chief of the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (MASEN), Mustapha Bakkoury. In an Op-Ed published by “the Parliament Magazine”, Bakkoury said despite Morocco’s swift and exceptional management of the pandemic, […]
The European Union (EU) announced two major investments in Nigeria in the renewable energy sector. The investments include a €30 million from the Electrification Financing Initiative (ElectriFI) and a €165 million direct loan from the European Union. The announcement was made during the inauguration of a solar tree at the headquarters of the European Union […]
Morocco’s Research Institute for Solar Energy & New Energies (IRESEN) and Sherbrooke University of Canada have sealed lately a partnership aimed at boosting their cooperation in renewable energies and energy efficiency. This partnership will enable Moroccan university students and professors to work with their Canadian peers on joint projects in solar energy, photovoltaic energy production, […]
The African continent’s renewable energies potential is estimated at 310 Giga-Watts (GW), an expert from the African Development Bank (AfDB) said on Tuesday in Dakar, Senegal. Hatem Fellah, Principal Agronomist at the AfDB made the statement during the opening of a sub-regional exchange meeting on domestic and renewable energies in the Sahel region. The meeting […]
Morocco has been classified among developing countries that notably improved their renewable energies sector and policies since 2010. This came in the recently published World Bank report of the 2018 Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy (RISE) that listed 133 countries’ renewable energies improvements. Morocco got a score of 74, according to the report of RISE, […]