UK-based Xlinks is planning to build 10.5 GW of wind and solar in Morocco and sell the power generated by the huge plant in the UK. This should be made possible by a 3,800 km high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission line that would be connected to locations in Wales and Devon. The company’s CEO, Simon Morrish, spoke with pv magazine about the ambitious project, and on how it should become feasible.
read more... 23/04/2021
Moroccan electric and water utility ONEE has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with a consortium formed by Italy’s Enel Green Power and Moroccan energy company Nareva Holding related to the 270-MW Jbel Lahdid wind farm that the duo will build in the North African kingdom.
read more... 06/01/2021
UK-listed upstream junior SDX Energy -- which is focused on mostly gas-producing assets in Egypt and Morocco -- plans to accelerate new drilling at its flagship South Disouq concession onshore Egypt, its CEO Mark Reid said Nov. 19.
read more... 20/11/2020
We still own stakes in coal-fired plants in Indonesia, China, Malaysia and Morocco, but our goal is to make it zero by 2030," Mitsui CEO Tatsuo Yasunaga said in an interview on Friday
read more... 12/10/2020
Russian state development bank VEB signed a deal on Wednesday to build a 2 billion euro ($2.2 billion) oil refinery in Morocco, the north African country’s state news agency MAP said.
read more... 24/10/2019