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  • Final Orders for “Khalladi” Wind Power Farm Confirmed for Construction in Morocco

    MOROCCO, 2017/05/28 ACWA Power Khalladi announced that it has approved final orders to suppliers and contractors for the Khalladi Wind Power Project in the Northern region of Morocco since construction began November 2015, according to a Monday press release. Khalladi is scheduled to begin commercial operation in the fourth quarter of 2016, stated in the ACWA Power website. Proposed project of the 120 MW Wind Power Farm located in Jbel Sendouq – Khalladi, the initial privately funded wind farm in Morocco, was made possible under the newly adopted regulation in March 2010 titled Law 13.09, according to the project’s 2012 Project Design Document. The law allowed opening the market of renewable energy to the private sector as Khalladi will be able to sell their electricity due to high voltage and medium voltage grid to a pool of clients.

  • Algeria's Clean Energy: Huge Potential, Huge Ambition

    ALGERIA, 2017/03/12 Algeria is known for its oil and gas, but take a quick look at a world map, and you’ll see that its mountains and Mediterranean coastline mean huge wind energy potential. Add in its large surface area and desert topography, and the country enjoys huge solar energy potential as well. In fact, Algeria’s wind resources are estimated very large due to the size of the country with an estimated capacity of 35 THW per year, as well the Mediterranean North is characterized by a coastline of 1200 km coastline and a mountainous field with microclimates, what gives the giving the country a high potential of Wind development. In addition, Algeria has the major solar field in the world and the major capacity of all Mediterranean basin, with a territory composed of 86% of the Saharan desert, 2000 hours of average annual sunshine. The energy generated by solar power would represent 5000 times the Algerian consumption of electricity.

  • Algeria's Clean Energy: Huge Potential, Huge Ambition

    ALGERIA, 2017/03/12 Algeria is known for its oil and gas, but take a quick look at a world map, and you’ll see that its mountains and Mediterranean coastline mean huge wind energy potential. Add in its large surface area and desert topography, and the country enjoys huge solar energy potential as well. In fact, Algeria’s wind resources are estimated very large due to the size of the country with an estimated capacity of 35 THW per year, as well the Mediterranean North is characterized by a coastline of 1200 km coastline and a mountainous field with microclimates, what gives the giving the country a high potential of Wind development. In addition, Algeria has the major solar field in the world and the major capacity of all Mediterranean basin, with a territory composed of 86% of the Saharan desert, 2000 hours of average annual sunshine. The energy generated by solar power would represent 5000 times the Algerian consumption of electricity.

  • Solar to strengthen Algeria’s energy outlook

    ALGERIA, 2016/12/26 An agreement for a new solar plant marks the new step in Algeria’s effort to increase renewable electricity generation and reduce domestic gas consumption. The move is a crucial one, given that the country’s rising request for power – much of which is generated from gas feedstock – has constrained the volume of gas available for export, impacting national revenues. According to data from the Ministry of Energy, electricity consumption increased by 7.4% to 68.8 TWh last year.

  • Morocco takes initiative on renewables development

    MOROCCO, 2016/12/24 With power consumption in Morocco steadily increasing, the government has adopted a set of amendments to its renewable energy law to attract investments in a range of solar and wind energy projects. Reforming the segment The energy efficiency goals laid out in Morocco’s National Energy Strategy of 2008 aim to boost the share of renewable electricity generation to 42% by 2020 and 52% by 2030. To help advance this goal, at the end of last year the government amended the kingdom’s renewable energy law, originally promulgated in 2010.

  • Noor solar project leads Morocco’s clean power drive

    MOROCCO, 2016/02/12 The southern Moroccan city of Ouarzazate will any minute at this time be home to Africa’s major solar plant and the world’s biggest concentrating solar power (CSP) facility, with €6bn worth of solar projects currently in the works. The 500-MW Ouarzazate Solar Complex (OSC) – which will occupy an area roughly the size of the capital Rabat – will harness solar power using CSP technology. As opposed to traditional photovoltaic panels, CSP uses mirrors to focus sunlight and convert it into 400°C heat to create steam that will power an energy-generating turbine.

  • Photovoltaic energy a 'growing market in MENA area'

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2014/06/09 Photovoltaic energy is growing in the Middle East and North Africa and is showing great potential someday, according to a study published on Friday by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) analyzing the sector's world perspectives until 2018. If in Europe - next the boom recorded in 2011 with Italy and Germany as protagonists - there has been an inversion in the trend over the last year with fewer new systems, the opposite trend has been registered in MENA nations. Percentages remain low here compared to the Old Continent but the trend is growing, the research noted. The MENA market today makes up for approximately 2-4% of the world market but is expected to grow to 7-10% by 2018.

  • King Mohammed V:construction of the Noor solar complex

    MOROCCO, 2013/05/16 Chairman of the Moroccan Agency For Solar Energy (MASEN), Mustapha Bakkoury, made on the occasion a presentation highlighting the goals of this major project that confirms HM the King's will to optimize the use of Morocco's natural resources, preserve environment, promote sustainable economic and social development and fasten the next of coming generations. This is the prime plant of the kind in the world in terms of production capacity (160 MW). The plant, to cost 7 billion dirhams, will be operational in 28 months. It will help promote local industry, acquire high-level expertise in the field and guarantee an integrated development of the region and the production of clean and renewable electric energy, said Bakkoury.

  • Morocco's solar energy agency MASEN,

    MOROCCO, 2013/05/12 Morocco on Friday officially launched the construction of a 160-megawatt solar power plant near the desert city of Ouarzazate, the prime in a series of vast solar projects planned in the country; The major of its kind in the world, according to Mustapha Bakkoury, the chief of Morocco's solar energy agency MASEN, the thermo-solar plant will cost 7 billion dirhams (630 million euros) and is slated for completion in 2015, the official MAP news agency reported.

  • Study supports renewable energy in Africa

    AFRICA, 2013/04/30 Increased use of renewable energy sources can transform African societies and their economies, a newly launched study revealed. The comprehensive study, conducted by the World Future Council and the Heinrich Boll Foundation with the support of Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland, shows that Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff policies (REFiT) are promising mechanisms to promote renewable energy development in Africa.
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