Morocco Invests 2 Billion Dirhams to Boost Electricity Infrastructure in Southern Regions

This "strategic" project will have a positive impact on the southern regions, in particular by strengthening the security of electricity supply, enhancing the potential of renewable energies, and meeting the growing demand at an affordable cost, rejoices El Hafidi in a statement to the MAP.

"This is a new generation substation, a shielded substation that is built in an aggressive context and in an environment where the external environmental constraints are enormous: sand wind gusts and a marine environment," said the ONEE CEO, stressing that in terms of renewable energies, the southern provinces, which host the major structuring projects for the production of this energy from wind power, have an "enormous potential".

With an additional capacity of 1200 MW, this project launched in El Haggounia will allow the realization of the second 400 kV Agadir-Laâyoune line, at a cost of 2 billion dirhams, requiring, among other things, the extension of the 400 kV part of the El Haggounia Substation.

The existing substation, the source recalls, was commissioned in 2016, as part of the project to evacuate the wind farms in the southern region and to strengthen the electricity supply.