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Moroccan electricity company Nareva and Italian energy giant Enel will construct a 270MW wind power plant on the Kingdom’s Atlantic coast.
- The project is part of Morocco’s greater Integrated Wind Energy Programme to increase wind energy generation to 1000MW by 2024.
- The project is expected to gulp $314 million and will be financed by the two companies which will operate the plant under a build, operate and manage model.
The kingdom of Morroco is set to construct a new wind farm. Moroccan electricity company Nareva and Italian clean energy company, Enel Green Power, recently signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to supply clean energy to the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) and the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (MASEN).
Nareva and Enel Green Power will jointly construct the wind power plant at Jbel Lahdid, on the Atlantic coast of the country and the farm will have a capacity of 270MW. The new power plant is part of the Kingdom’s Integrated Wind Energy Programme. Under this programme, the country aims to build six wind farms with a cumulative capacity of 1000MW by 2024. The two companies building the plant were awarded the contract to design, finance, build, operate and manage the wind park after successfully bidding following a call for tenders in 2016.
This plant will be Morocco’s third wind project following the commencement of construction on the 180MW Midelt and 300MW Boujdour farms. Development of the Jbel Lahdid wind farm is expected to cost 2.8 billion Moroccan dirhams ($314 million). Construction is expected to be completed by 2023.
The integrated Wind Energy Programme, when completed, will reduce the Kingdom’s carbon emissions by about 2.38 million tonnes annually according to Moroccan authorities.