Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Leila Benali. Credit: MAP
In the House of Representatives, Leila Benali stressed that in the middle of the term, the government authorized clean energy projects with a capacity of 2,000 megawatts.
The capacity of energy projects currently in operation reaches around 4,600 megawatts, announced on Monday in Rabat the Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Leila Benali.
In his response to an oral question on “the universalization of the use of clean energy”, Presented by the Istiqlalian Unity and Egalitarianism group in the House of Representatives, Benali stressed that mid-term, the government authorized clean energy projects with a capacity of 2,000 megawatts.
He added that a set of procedures and measures have been taken to accelerate the generalization of the use of clean energy, stressing in this regard the increase in annual investments from 4 to 15 billion dirhams by 2027.
Among the measures that have been taken, according to the minister, are: “the removal of the main obstacle to the generalization of clean energy, namely, the network”noting that “investments exceeding 30 billion dirhams have been mobilized”, noting that investments did not exceed 1 billion dirhams per year during the period from 2009 to 2022.
In relation to legislative reforms, Benali indicated that legal texts have been adopted with the aim of developing “decentralized production of clean energy”emphasizing that these efforts have notably enabled “the publication of tariffs for access to and use of the electricity network and electricity system services for the first time on January 31, 2024”.
