Dii reference projects in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia
The boundaries shown on the map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by Dii.
As a future-oriented industry, the renewable energy sector offers enormous opportunities for the Maghreb countries along with sustained economic growth. The energy requirements of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia will dramatically increase during the next few decades. All three countries have presented ambitious plans for developing renewable energies. Dii welcomes theses plans that lay the foundation stone for a Mediterranean-wide electricity provision and which will help create a renewable energies-based market for electricity as quickly as possible.
In 2011, Dii succeeded in concluding politically supported cooperation agreements (Memoranda of Understanding, MoUs) in these three countries to support the development of renewables. In line with these agreements, Dii is developing country strategies in close collaboration with local partners which contain analyses of the sites, electricity networks, regulatory structure, markets and socio-economic aspects and which will provide the basis for the first joint reference projects. Dii is therefore helping its North African partners to shape their national renewable energy programmes in more detail.
Dii is preparing reference projects in:
These reference projects will total 2.5 gigawatts (GW) in size, whereby 500 megawatts (MW) is currently being planned for Morocco. It is intended to generate the first electricity in these plants in 2014. The plans for Algeria and Tunisia each amount to one gigawatt.
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