1. 1
Delivering the mitigation work
programme (MWP) - Accelerating action
through existing initiatives (I)
Rachid Ennassiri
Energy transition policy advisor
Climate Emergency Collaboration
Group, Power Breakthrough
20-Sep-2023 Noor Ouarzazate solar plant, source : GIZ
Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG)
Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change

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What we'll cover
1) Morocco’s efforts to implement the Paris Agreement.
2) Overview of Morocco’s energy strategy (objectives, strategic orientations, etc).
3) The Power Breakthrough priority actions : Morocco’s responses (2022-2023)
4) Opportunities: supporting the next phase of Morocco’s energy transition strategy (2022-2030)
5) Opportunities for international collaboration with Morocco

3. Morocco’s efforts to implement the Paris Agreement

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Ligne de base Mesures conditionnelles Mesures inconditionnelles
Gg Eq. CO2
▪ Morocco submitted an enhanced and more
ambitious Nationally Determined Contribution
(NDC) to the UNFCCC (2021), aiming at a
45.5% reduction of its greenhouse gases
emissions by 2030.
▪ The NDC includes mitigation targets for two new
large industrial subsectors: cement and
phosphates.
▪ The National Adaptation Plan (NAP)
complements the NDC, outlining a concerted
and inclusive framework to support adaptation
planning and priority actions over 2020-2030.
Morocco’s updated NDC

5. Morocco will rely on five bets for the future
(2021-2035)
leading country in
competitive and
green energy
regional financial
pole
Digital country
Digital technologies
are fully mobilised
based on their
transformational
and economic
potential
Education and
scientific research
A pole of reference in
the field of higher
education and
scientific research
Made in Morocco
Mark
It is imperative to invest
in projects and suitable
technological choices
with a strong impact on
competitiveness.
competitiveness
and sustainability,
which is a
substantial lever
for deepening our
international
partnerships,
Acquire the status
of Regional
Financial Centre
of reference
Morocco’s New Development Model

6. Towards the implementation of Morocco’s green energy
strategic NMD bet
Quantitative phase pf Morocco’s low carbon
long term strategy 2050 (to be published at
COP28).
Revision process of the 2009
energy strategy (by end of March
2022)
Revision process of the 2017
National Strategy for Sustainable
Development (SNDD)
Preparing Morocco’s offer on green hydrogen
(during 2023)
Reforming the investment landscape
(investment charter, Mohamed VI fund,
CRI, etc)
Critical Minerals vision
Proposal being elaborated by the
Economic, Social and
Environmental Council (CESE)
Ongoing reforms of the institutional and
regulatory frameworks (laws, decrees, etc)

7. Overview of Morocco’s energy transition strategy

8. Morocco’s energy transition strategy
Strategic
orientations
main
objectives
Sustainable
development
Mobilization
of national
resources
Demand
Management
Access to
low-cost
energy
Energy
efficiency
Diversified energy
mix, optimized by
reliable and
competitive
technology
Security of
supply and
availability of
energy
Environment
preservation
Regional
integration
Setting an ambitious strategic
target, raising the share of
renewable energies to more than
52% by 2030.

9. Important natural sources to deploy renewable
energies
25 000 MW
Wind speed: 9.5 to 11 meters per second at
a height of 40 meters
Potential for the valorisation of bioenergy :
20 million MWh per year
Solar radiation of about 6.5 kilowatt-hours
per square meter per day.
3000 hours per year

10. Sources
Operational 830 MW
$2,9 bn
1550 MW
$2.4 bn
1771 MW
*
Development
phase
2063 MW
$2,4 bn
1934 MW
$2,6 bn
581 MW
$869,1
Accumulated investments in the field of
renewable energies
Source: MASEN

11. Three systems to develop renewable energies
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Launch of calls for tenders by the Moroccan
Agency for Sustainable Energy (MASEN) to
develop, finance, design, build, operate and
maintain renewable energies power plants.
Ensuring the purchase of produced electricity
exclusively by the National Office for Electricity
(ONE) within the framework of an agreement.
International bidding framework
for contract production or
finished product (IPP/EPC)
Create a free market for electricity, giving private
producers the opportunity to deploy the
production of electricity from renewable sources.
The right of access to the national electricity grid
for the sale of renewable electricity.
The right to export renewable electricity with the
possibility of authorizing the establishment of
direct transmission lines.
Private production covered by Law No. 13-09
amended and supplemented by Law No. 40.19
The possibility of producing and
storing electricity by natural or
legal persons, with possibility to
inject surplus into the grid
Law 82.21 relating to
electricity self-production
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2023

12. The Power Breakthrough priority actions :
Morocco’s responses

13. Finance and
investment
Social
engagement
Research and
innovation
Infrastructure
Demand
management
The Power Breakthrough priority actions : Morocco’s responses
(2022-2023)

14. From the Power Breakthrough
process
Effective collaboration
system, consolidated at COPs
Involve political decision
makers from the start at COP26
Engage governmental
and non-governmental experts
Being close
to the signatory
countries and
initiatives
Broad
participation creates
broader ownership
Lessons learnt

15. 1.3 GW will be deployed annually during
2023-2027
More than three-fold increase in investment in
renewable energy, from about $392 million per year
between 2009 and 2022 to an annual average of $1.3
billion between 2023 and 2027
Electricity transmission
network 2023-2027
Strengthening and development of the
national electricity transmission network
during the period 2023-2027, with a total
estimated cost of $2.1 billion, to keep
pace with the electricity supply plan,
ensure the supply to various regions of
the kingdom, and enhance the country's
regional integration.
Electrifying villages
Electrifying 627 villages (68,814 households) and
numerous socio-economic facilities during the period
from 2022 to 2025, with a total estimated cost of $47
million. This will enable raising the rural electrification
rate to 99.95% by the year 2025.
New instruments to attract green
investments
Mohamed VI Investment Fund, Investment
charter, etc
PA1: Finance and investment

16. South South cooperation
The mission given to 4C Maroc
“Moreover, the Commission can count on
the Climate Change Competence Center of
Morocco (4C Maroc), particularly in terms of
capacity building for its members”
King Mohammed VI addressed a speech at the 1st
Climate Commission Conference for the Sahel
Region, Niamey - Niger 25 February 2019 Sahel Climate
Commission
Congo Basin Climate
Commission
Small Island
states commission
Centre for Climate Change
Competency
Channel finance and investment to Africa

17. PA2: Social engagement
Utility scale solar
Achieving Morocco’s targets for these technologies
would yield an estimated:
▪ 762 000 net jobs years over the next 30 years,
▪ Equivalent to an average of 25 000 additional new
job opportunities per year.
World Bank, 2022
Utility scale wind
Concentrated Solar
Power
Industrial solar
Rooftop residential solar
Energy efficiency of buildings

18. PA3: Research and innovation
More than 250 million dirhams
to support applied research
and innovation projects in
renewable and new energies
Creating 3 research and
development platforms with an
investment of approximately 780
million dirhams and programming
3 other platforms
37 registered patents
Adoption of a new
program 2021-2030 for
research, development
and innovation
More than 450 scientific
publications
Supporting 22 university
laboratories
Obtaining more than 520 million
dirhams as support within the
framework of international
cooperation and partnership with
industrialists
More than 800 researchers,
including professors,
doctors, engineers, and
master’s and bachelor’s
students

19. Nouadhibou
Nouakchott
Boujdour
Dakhla
Lâayoune
Mauritania
Algeria
Spain
400 kV operational line
400 kV line at project stage
225 kV operational line
225kV line at project stage
Feasibility study
being launched
(1000 MW)
Interconnection with
▪ Commissioned in 1997
▪ Expanded in 2006
▪ Exchange capacity: 1400 MW
▪ Commercial capacity: 850 MW
▪ ONEE : 4th operator in the Spanish electricity
market
▪ 3rd interconnection under study (700 MW)
Interconnection with
• To integrate West African electrical systems to the
European network through the Morocco-Spain
Interconnection
• To valorize the renewable energy resources in the
region
• To promote the creation of a regional electricity
market
Interconnection with
• Commissioned in 1988,
• Expanded to 400 kV in 2008
• Exchange capacity : 1200 MW
PA4: Infrastructure
Morocco: a hub for energy interconnections
Proposed Morocco-UK
interconnector
Marine geophysical, geotechnical
and environmental route
investigation surveys along the
approximately 3,600-kilometre
interconnector route.

20. Decree 2.20.716 on the minimum energy
performance of appliances and equipment offered
for sale on national territory.
PA05: Demand management
▪ Adopted pursuant to article 2 of law 47.09 relating to
energy efficiency, the decree aims to define the
commitments to be honored by stakeholders in the
marketing of energy devices and equipment, in particular
producers, importers and distributors, in terms of
minimum energy performance and energy labeling.

21. Opportunities: supporting the next phase of
Morocco’s energy transition strategy (2022-2030)
Costs : reduce the cost of producing renewable electricity, mechanisms for financing
projects, especially for SMEs.
Governance : improve governance of the energy sector, through the development of
a suitable institutional framework
Continuous improvement of the legislative and regulatory framework for renewable
energies
Electricity grid: rehabilitation of the electricity system to make it capable of absorbing
the growing number of renewable energy projects.
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Built environment: mobilize the building sector to implement renewable energy
projects and rationalize their operation.
Local content: strengthen local industrial integration to increase the socio-economic
impact of renewable energy projects.
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22. Opportunities for international collaboration with
Morocco
Energy regulation
(feed-in-tariff schemes, the regulatory regime
for assessing the TSO and DSOs investment
plans)
Hydrogen value chain
technologies, hydrogen and water desalination,
etc. (regulatory and institutional formworks)
South-south climate cooperation
climate and energy security in neighbouring African
countries – eg through Morocco’s COP22 initiatives
(strategies, investments plans, capacity building, etc)
Decentralized/distributed electricity systems
(Virtual power plants).
Emerging innovative ways of producing, storing
and distributing electricity – vehicle to grid, vehicle
to building, Vehicle to X, etc.
Investment opportunities to Integrate Morocco to
Europe and Africa.
(green manufacturing, interconnectors, etc)
R&D collaboration on green technologies
(storage, e-mobility, CSP, waste to energy, critical minerals,
etc)

23. Climate Emergency Collaboration Group (CECG)
Rachid Ennassiri
F: +212652528614
E: ennassiri.rachid@outlook.com.com
I: https://www.climatecollaboration.org/about
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