Morocco’s electrical power production rose by 15.5 percent in the second quarter of 2021, after having decreased by 11.7 percent during the same period last year, ending the first half of 2021 with an increase of 7.9 percent, according to the Ministry of Finance’s Department of Economic Studies and Financial Forecast.
The same source attributes this increase to an enhancement in private production by 7.2 percent and the production of the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water by 11.3 percent. In addition to the increase in electricity production from renewable sources related to bill 13-09 by 6.6 percent.
Net energy demand also rose by 6.9 percent at the end of June 2021, after a decrease by 4% a year before that. The ministry also said that the volume of electricity imports decreased by 26.9 percent at the end of June 2021, after an increase of 76,8 percent in the previous year, while the volume of exports increased by 51.3 percent, after having dropped by 68.4 percent last year.
As for energy consumption, it recorded an increase of 16.6 percent in the second quarter of 2021, after a decline of 1 percent in the first quarter, ending the first half of 2021 with an increase of 7.4 percent, compared to a decrease of 4.9 percent last year.
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