(ANSAmed) – BRUSSELS, APRIL 11 – Morocco has requested greater support from European countries to begin exporting its renewable energy to the EU. The Moroccan energy ministry’s director-general for renewable energy, Abderrahim El Hafidi, stressed this in a European Parliament meeting Thursday on energy.
”We have enormous wind and solar power potential along with an attractive legislative and regulatory framework open to private investors in renewable energy,” said El Hafidi, who asked European countries to make use of the opportunities offered by EU regulations to begin importing renewable energy from North African countries.
El Hafidi noted, however, that ”this requires political support as well, since operability depends on inter-governmental accords”. Moroccans have taken action and the ball is now in the court of EU member states. ”We are working on projects with Spanish, French, German, and Italian friends and we hope that the first export transaction can be carried out as soon as possible”. ”Our aim,” El Hafidi said, ”is to give the EU part of the energy produced in Ouarzazate,” the huge concentrated solar power plant due to be up and running in 2015, for which Morocco expects hefty co-financing from the European Investment Bank.
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