Morocco, USA sign energy agreement

Morocco and the United States of America signed in Marrakesh Monday an agreement on cooperation in energy-efficiency and renewable energies.

The document initialed by Moroccan energy minister Mustapha Mansouri and US deputy energy secretary Dan Reicher in a side meeting to the US-Africa conference on the financing of renewable energies, provides for joint projects, quest for funding and trade of experts and researchers.

The five-year convention means also to develop energy planning, set up development strategies and use of basic systems of renewable energy-market and energy-efficiency both diversifying sources while taking into account environmental concerns.

An annex to the document provides for technical-training assistance and a national renewable energy plan catering to development of clean energy, promotion of the rural world and reorganization of the energy department of the ministry of industry, trade, energy and mining.