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Morocco and Regional Energy Security
Morocco and Regional Energy Security
satisfy the demands of their rapidly evolving populations in terms of agriculture, industry
and services have put an enormous strain on energy requirements. Many organizations and
entities, including the United Nations, have already stressed the need for new paradigms of
energy transition as an ideal solution to the sustained development issue. In this regard, the
Moroccan Kingdom is considered worldwide, as a pioneering country who embarked early
and steadily in an energy transition strategy aiming to diversify the energetic mix end secure
national needs. In this regard, it would be judicious to wonder about the opportunities that
our country can offer to strengthen energy security at the regional level.
Alongside its solid infrastructure of renewable energy parks and logistics means,
the kingdom of Morocco is able to benefit its regional partners by sharing its notorious
expertise and successful lessons drawn from its pioneering energy transition strategy, and
can serve both as a recipient and provider of investments in clean energy especially in hard
times of conventional energy.
To support this thesis, the opportunities offered by our country in favor of regional
energy security will be underlined in the areas of infrastructure, transfer of expertise and
know-how and lastly in investment possibilities.
The Moroccan kingdom can benefit regional energy security through its solid clean
energy infrastructure. Indeed, the country has achieved enormous strides with the
construction of impressive solar and wind turbine parks in many areas such as Noor and eL
Koudia el Baida projects. These facilities where technology don’t allow yet a sufficient
storage capacities can be put exploited to provide their surplus to interconnections with
neighboring countries. Moreover, the kingdom having interconnection grids with
neighboring countries of Europe and Maghreb can be used as a physical hub for any regional
energy cooperation agreements. Finally, the important potential of Morocco in terms of
logistics, especially its strategic ports in the Mediterranean and Atlantic sea can be of huge
importance to the facilitation of energy importation and exportation.
The kingdom can greatly benefit regional partners through its elaborated expertise
end know-how in the area of clean energy. As a matter of fact, the Moroccan energy
strategy accumulated a myriad of successful enterprises and knowledge since its inception in
2009, which can be of huge interest to African states particularly. In addition, the multiplicity
of meetings and initiatives that Morocco hosted and supervised are great opportunities to
replicate best practices and models that are worldwide proven. Here, the example of “the
coalition for sustainable energy access”, co-chaired with Ethiopia in 2019 is very indicative in
this regard. Finally, the kingdom offers southern european countries a window for a
smoother triangular transfer of technology to the south. In this respect, the recent
cooperation with Germany for the development of Hydrogen energy technology illuminates
the potential of the kingdom in terms of triangular technology cooperation. Thus, the
kingdom offers enormous opportunities for south-south and north-south cooperation
through the sharing of its renowned expertise and know-how.