Morocco’s installed wind capacity has hit 2.39GW, with state power firm ONEE on 11 October announcing the start-up of the 270MW Jbel Lahdid wind farm north of Essaouira on the country’s Atlantic coast.
ONEE says that this takes the country’s total renewables capacity to 5.44GW, a figure that rivals the UAE’s 5.6GW (MEES, 20 September) and Israel’s 6GW (MEES, 31 May) and as regional number two behind Egypt with just shy of 7GW (MEES, 25 October). Speaking in July, energy minister Leila Benali said that Morocco is targeting 7.5GW of renewable energy capacity by 2027. (CONTINUED - 762 WORDS)
