International prize for new energy technologies awaded to Morocco

The Moroccan National Electricity Office (ONE) was awarded recently in California an International prize in recognition for its contribution in developing thermal-solar energy technologies and supporting clean and sustainable energy.

The international recognition comes to reward ONE's efforts to develop a thermal-solar energy plant project in Ain Beni Mathar (Eastern Morocco) using "Integrated Solar Combined Cycle (ISCC)" technologies, a mixture of solar energy and natural gas, and generating 220 MW power, said ONE's release.

The prize was extended to ONE director general, Ahmed Nakkouch, by the European Association of thermal-solar production industries and the American Solar Energy Industries Association on the fringes of the international conference on solar energy market expansion.