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The rate of rural households connected to the national electrical network reached 72% at the end of 2004, said on Jan. 25 the Moroccan National Office of Electricity (NOE). A total of 187,000 new rural homes were connected during 2004 according to a press release of NOE.
The network extension in rural areas is progressing according to plan and an investment program was devised and executed since 1996. NOE's goal is to reach an 81% connection rate of total households in rural areas in 2005. In 2004, NOE connected 3,610 villages to the national network and set up solar-energy compounds in 363 villages.
NOE plans to extend the electrical infrastructure in 2005 for 4,000 rural villages of 200,000 households and set up solar-energy compounds for an additional 22,000 households. Total investments budgeted for the program top €420 million. The program includes the 400 MW combined cycle plant at Tahaddart in the north, which was inaugurated by the Moroccan and Spanish Monarchs Jan. 19. Endesa of Spain has a 32% stake in this project.
Construction work on a 60 MW wind-energy plant sited in Cap Sim, 15 km south of Essaouira, are expected to kick off in 2005. The German bank KFW approved in Dec.2004 a €50 million loan (MAD 550 million) to ONE regarding this project. The overall cost of the plant, which will be built on 200 hectares with an annual production capacity of 210 GWH, is estimated to be at MAD 650 million (€54 million). It is expected to be operational late 2006.
NOE is pondering many other projects among them the solar-energy plant in Ain Beni Mathar, and a tender offer for the construction of a 140 MW wind-energy plant in Tangier.
NOE has devised a MAD 30 billion investment-plan spanning five years (2005-2010). It includes an 800 MW plant in the Al Wahda dam near the city of Ouezzan in the north, and an additional 400 MW extension plant of Tahaddart by 2008. These two plants will be built and operated in line with the prospective liberalization of the electricity industry in Morocco.
© Morocco Times 2005
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