L R AS Published on Saturday 10 September 2016 - n° 159 - Categories:Africa
600 Moroccan mosques will be equipped with solar panels by German companies
In Morocco, Germany is to equip 600 mosques with LED lamps, solar panels and solar hot water. This project costs €5m and will be completed in 2019. It aims to awaken Moroccan interest in photovoltaic technology and to create jobs. The Moroccan companies that will install them and assume the financial and technical risks will be remunerated according to the savings made.
If this programme succeeds, it will later be extended to other Moroccan sectors.
In November 2017, Morocco receives COP 22. The country has committed itself to ensuring that by 2020 renewable energies will provide 42% of its energy demand, or 6 GW, and that solar energy alone (including solar thermal power plants) will account for 14% of the total, or 2 GW (one third of renewable energies).
PV Magazine of 9 September
NDLR Is it normal that it is the Germans who get this contract? There can't be many people from Morocco in France, so we must not have gone to Germany to get them!
