Morocco’s partnership with Spain for gas supply is continuing its growth, as statistics delivered by Spanish operator Enagás for the first three months of 2023 reveal a steady growth.
Since the Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline (GME) resumed service in reverse flow on June 28, last year, the quantities of gas shipments previously purchased by the kingdom in international markets and unloaded in Spanish regasification plants have increased exponentially.
Morocco imported 536 gigawatt hours (GWh) in January, 680 GWh in February and 820 GWh in March, reports Spanish media.
Since June 2022, gas transfers through the GME have shown an upward trend, with 60 GWh in July, 172 GWh in August and 123 GWh in September.
From October onwards, exports soared considerably, recording 328 GWh, 553 GWh in November and 527 GWh in December.
Morocco imported a total of 1,430 gigawatt-hours from its northern neighbor throughout 2022, compared to 179 gigawatt-hours exported from Morocco to Spain in 2021, according to Spanish data.
In June 2022, the transmission lines transferred 205 gigawatt-hours of electricity produced in Spain in the direction of Morocco, after it had not exceeded 38 gigawatt-hours in May of the same year, and 23 gigawatt-hours in April.
August 2022 also witnessed the peak of high-voltage electrical exchanges between the two countries, with 292 gigawatt-hours supplied to Morocco from Spain, before continuing in a high trend with an electric energy volume of 243 gigawatt-hours in September of last year, and 247 gigawatt-hours in September.
The regasification of quantities of gas purchased by Morocco is expected to bring Spain 2 million euros annually, revealed the government in a recent response to a written question by members of the Popular Party in Spanish Parliament.
The activation in reverse flow of the GME has allowed the revival of the activities of two power plants in both Tahaddart and Ain Beni Mathar, which had halted activity for over a year following Algeria’s decision to close the Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline on October 31, 2021.
The pace of electricity consumption has increased rapidly in Morocco on an annual basis, given that demand for energy doubles every ten years, as confirmed by the ministry overseeing the management of the sector earlier, stating that per capita consumption of energy has increased two and a half times in the last two decades.
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