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Multilaterals lined up to voice support for Masen’s ground-breaking CSP scheme at Ouarzazate, ahead of the global climate conference in Durban. With other solar schemes also reporting progress, Morocco’s aspirations to become a leading renewables producer are moving ahead, writes Jon Marks

Using equipment and management from Spanish giant Gamesa, the local subsidiary of Italy’s Italcementi Group

The grouping of the local ONA Group’s Nareva subsidiary and International Power (IP) have emerged as low bidder in the second attempt by state utility Office National de l’Electricité to award a contact for the 660MW coal-fired independent power plant at Safi.

State utility Office National de l’Electricité (ONE) has invited expressions of interest by 1 February 2012 from engineering, procurement and construction contractors to build a 350MW coal-fired power plant, part of its $13.2bn investment programme for the 2011-16 period

State utility Office National de l’Electricité (ONE) has invited expressions of interest by 1 February 2012 from engineering, procurement and construction contractors to

There has been an upsurge of interest in Morocco’s underexplored acreage, with Vancouver-based East West Petroleum Corporation the latest company to sign an agreement with the Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (Onhym).

French group Vinci has set up a new facilities management joint venture in Morocco, working through its Cegelec Maroc and Vinci Facilities subsidiaries.

Office National de l’Electricité (ONE) has issued a tender (SP 465 985) for the turnkey installation of a new coal storage area at Jorf Lasfar, where Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa)-owned Jorf Lasfar Energy Company 5&6 is expanding the coal-fired generation complex.

The long-awaited merger of the kingdom’s two major utilities, Office National de l’Electricité (ONE) and Office National de l’Eau Potable (Onep) into a single public sector company called Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau (Onee) has finally been approved by the Chamber of Counsellors.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is considering E300m ($410m) of financing for the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy’s planned 500MW solar power plant

Perth-based Tangiers Petroleum plans to list on London’s Alternative Investment Market in late November or early December as it seeks to line up partners for its offshore Morocco project. The Australian minnow believes its offshore Tarfaya Block has billion

There are signs of movement, at last, on bidding for flagship solar and other renewables projects, to be installed at either end of the continent. 

Progress has been reported at last in bidding to build the first phase of Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (Masen)’s planned 500MW solar power plant at Ouarzazate (AE 201/10, 196/6, 174/8). 

Kpong hydro rehabilitation; Power sector reform; AFD backs solar power; New units for Kainji

The ‘Arab Spring’, which offered such hope of radical change across North Africa, has entered a long hot summer of doubts and fears, as the Libyan conflict drags on and populations from Morocco to Egypt wait to see if promised political reforms will deliver the hoped for dividends of more open decision-making, fairer legal systems and equitable economic opportunities that will help reduce levels of poverty and give real jobs to the region’s disaffected youth