Morocco to build solar power station
Morocco, Economics, 11/9/2001

Morocco will build a 2,000 MW capacity solar power station whose production will be partly exported to Europe.

The station will be built under a convention that was signed in Marrakesh Thursday between the Moroccan center for the promotion of renewable energies (CDER), a European consortium "SOLRAMUNDO" and a Kuwaiti promoter, Adnan Al-Hamoud.

The station-produced electricity will consolidate Morocco's electricity assets and will be used in sea water desalination projects. The convention, that falls in the frame of incentives to clean energy, also provides for the transfer of know-how to Moroccan local industries.

The job-generating project opens the Moroccan electricity market to private investors and will be a source of sustained development.

The convention was initialed by CDER general manager, Abdelhanine Benallou, SOLARMUNDO chairman, Miguel Sureda, and the Kuwaiti promoter, Adnan Al-Hamoud.

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