Morocco has allocated 150,000 hectares in the Guelmim-Oued Noun region for a clean energy production project spearheaded by the British company “Xlinks” for a budget of about 250 billion dirhams.
The investment project received the approval of the Regional Committee for Investment in the Guelmim-Oued Noun region, according to a report on public real estate investments attached to the Finance Bill 2022.
“We have acquired an area of about 1,500 square kilometers from the Moroccan government (…) On the ground, we are going to put together a solar farm, a wind farm and batteries that together will produce about 10.5 gigawatts of power,” one of the main project’s planners, Sir Dave Lewis had told Financial Times.
Xlinks plans to connect the energy generated from solar and wind power with an underwater electric cable in the world, stretching 3,800 km between North Africa and Britain.
The company proposes to complete the GBP16 billion cable link between Morocco and the UK by the end of this decade, which will provide enough electricity to power more than 7 million UK homes.
Morocco’s energy minister Aziz Rebbah said a project by British start-up Xlinks, which plans to build an underwater electric cable between Morocco and Britain has received his ministry’s preliminary accord, awaiting in-depth studies.
“A number of international companies obtained initial approval to carry out renewable energy and hydrogen projects, especially in the southern regions, aimed for export,” he told Hespress Eng, without giving further details.
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