- A local manufacturing plant for solar heaters will be operational in Morocco by June 2023.
- The facility under construction in the Aïn Johra industrial park in the town of Tiflet is in line with the Moroccan authorities’ vision of promoting energy efficiency.
The authorities of Morroco recently participated in the launch of construction work on a solar water heating production plant in Tiflet in the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region. The installation, called “MySol CES”, is being implemented by the Moroccan company Green Innov Industry Investment (Gi3), which is also financing the first phase of the work to the tune of 60 million Moroccan dirhams, or 5.4 million euros.
According to the Moroccan Minister of Industry and Trade, who presided over the ceremony, the new factory, which will produce 40,000 units of solar water heaters per year, will create 880 jobs by the second half of 2023.
In the meantime, the executive chairman of Gi3 has concluded a “scientific and technological partnership” with the Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdallah University in Fez, 180 kilometres from the capital Rabat.
The solar water heaters, which will also be exported to Europe and the Middle East, will enable Moroccan households and public institutions to optimise their energy consumption and thus reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the Kingdom. At the same time, Gi3 plans to build “Mysol PV”, a photovoltaic station with a capacity of 1,000 MWh per year.