Construction Week Online
by CW Staff
The quiescent UAE Kharabel has bagged what is a colossal contract for the renewable sector.
The UAE’s Kharabel and Morocco’s Nareva have won a contract to develop a 300MW wind farm in southern Morocco from state power utility ONE, according to Moroccan newspaper Les Echos.
Its generating capacity would make the project Africa’s largest wind farm, on top of Morocco’s impending achievement of the 500MW world’s largest solar project at Quazazarte.
The project kick starts a race with a similar 365-turbine deployment near Lake Turkana is Kenya, which will begin delivering its first kW to the grid by the end of 2013, and is penciled to produce 300MW by the end of 2014.
The estimated value of the project, which is located in the Tarfaya region, is $350m, ONE’s legal advisers, Chadbourne & Parke were quoted as saying.
A spokesperson for ONE was not available to comment the report.
