Morocco’s troubled 150MW Noor III concentrated solar power (CSP) plant at Ouarzazate in the south of the country remains offline almost a year after a “forced outage” due to a leak in the hot molten salts tank (MEES, 29 March 2024). In its 2024 results on 25 February Saudi operator Acwa Power says it expects the outage “to last till the end of the first quarter of 2025,” adding that the Acwa-led project company impaired SAR191.6mn ($51.1mn) for 2024 due to the outage. Morocco appears to have shelved planned further CSP additions amid these repeated technical problems (MEES, 29 March).