Spanish Renewable Energy Firm Prodiel Exits Moroccan Market

This decision follows the lightning success that Prodiel has experienced in Morocco, in contrast to many other Spanish companies operating in the renewable energy sector, such as AdiWatt which has sold its services to many Moroccan industrialists in their self-production projects. electricity based on solar energy. This was enough for the Seville-based group, present in a dozen other countries with more than 4,000 employees, to decide to lock up shop in Morocco, reports Challenge.

Another reason that also contributed to this hasty departure of Prodiel is, in addition to the delay of the authorities of the kingdom in promulgating the texts, the implementation measures of the production of electricity based on solar energy by independent producers (within the framework of Law 13-09 supplemented and amended in 2015 by law n°58-15). In terms of solar energy (unlike other green energy sources), these laws had excluded certain geographical areas (the Ouarzazate basin which today houses the famous Noor I, Noor II and Noor III stations) from the liberalization of the sector, reserving them exclusively for the MASEN agency, the armed wing of the Moroccan state in renewable energies, thus reducing the field of exploitation of private operators. The latter have decided to withdraw.