Capacity Building in the Field of Wind Energy, Stage II 29 March - 2 April, 2010

1. Wind Energy in Morocco
Presented by
M. Mustapha ENZILI
Responsible of Wind Department
Renewable Energy Development Center (CDER - Morocco)
RECREE Wind Energy Building Capacity Program
Rabat-Tangier, Morocco
29 March - 2 April, 2010

2. Summary
• Wind Energy Potential in Morocco
• Wind Resources Map of Morocco
• Wind atlas of Morocco
• Feasibility studies of windfarms
• Wind measurement stations
• Calibration of anemometers
• Operation & maintenance of wind measurement stations
• Follow up of wind measurement stations
• Softwares for micrositing
• Conclusion

3. Wind Energy Potantial in
Morocco

4. Wind Energy Potential in Morocco
Morocco has an excellent wind potential mainly in the North
& in the South :
- Essaouira, Tangier & Tetouan with an annual average
between 9.5 & 11 m/s at 40 meters.
- Tarfaya, Taza & Dakhla with an annual average
between 7.5 m/s & 9.5 m/s at 40 meters.
Wind Potential of Morocco :
• Total Potential : 7936 TWh/year (2645 GW)
• Technical Potential : 4896 TWh/year (1632 GW)
• Wind Atlas of Morocco published in 1986, 1995 and
updated in 2008.
• More than 50 measurements stations installed by CDER
between 1990 & 2009

5. Wind Energy Potential of Morocco
(Results of study CDER/GTZ - July 2007)
Total Technical Estimated Estimated Estimated
Potential Potential capacity capacity capacity
to install to install to install
in 2010 in 2012 in 2020
2,645,310 1,632,030 563 1,065 3,258
MW MW MW MW MW
7,936 TWh 4,896 TWh 1.9 TWh 3.4 TWh 9.9 TWh
Potential estimated to be installed :
- until 2012 : 1000 MW to 2000 MW
- until 2020 : 4000 MW to 7000 MW

6. Wind Resource Map of Morocco

7. New Wind Atlas of Morocco
• An international call of tenders will be launched in the next
few months for preparation of a new wind atlas of Morocco
with a high resolution
• In two years, possibility to access to the new wind atlas of
Morocco directly via the web
• We can zoom on different regions of Morocco
• We can change some parameters

8. Feasibility studies of Wind Farms
in Morocco

9. Steps of feasibility studies
• Choice of sites
• Wind measurement (minimum one year)
• Micro-siting (Configuration of windturbines in site) : with
Wasp, Windpro, WindFarm softwares or others
• Production estimation
• Economic & Financial feasibility
• Civil Work study
• Grid integration study
• Impact Environmental (Impact of the project around the
site, visual impact, Noise, Photomontage & Carbon Credit)

10. Wind measurement station
near Tangier

11. Equipments of wind measurement stations
• Measurement station of 60 meters :
- 3 or 4 positions of anemometers
- 2 positions of windvane
• GSM system for transmission of data
• Equipments of wind measurement stations :
- Anemometers
- Pressure, temperature & humidity
- Dataloggers with a capacity of one year of data
• Measurement of data for one year minimum

12. Equipments of wind measurement stations

13. Equipments of wind measurement stations

14. Complex terrain in the north of Morocco

15. Desert terrain in the south of Morocco

16. Calibration of anemometers

17. Calibration of anemometers
• Calibration of anemometers before installation by institutes
specialized
• Calibration with measnet procedures
• Measnet : Measuring Network of Wind Energy Institutes

18. Measnet anemometer Calibration procedure
• The MEASNET procedure is considered to be the most
internationally accepted procedure.
• The MEASNET Quality Evaluation Program is based on the
objective of continuously improving quality in
measurements.
• The “Reference Measurement Procedure” on which
MEASNET Measurement Procedure is based is :
IEC 61400-12-1:2005(E)

19. The Members of Measnet
• CENER - Centro Nacional de Energias Renovables, Spain
• CRES - Centre for Renewable Energy Sources, Greece
• DEWI - Deutsches Windenergie-Institut GmbH, Germany
• ECN - Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland,
The Netherlands
• RISØ - National Laboratory, Denmark
• TRIPOD Wind Energy ApS - TRIPOD Wind Energy ApS,
Denmark
• WindGuard - Deutsche WindGuard Wind Tunnel Services
GmbH, Germany
• WINDTEST - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog GmbH, Germany

20. The Members of Measnet
• WINDTEST - Grevenbroich GmbH, Germany
• Barlovento - Barlovento Recursos Naturales S.L., Spain
• NREL - National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA

21. Certificate of calibration
(Anemometer Informations)

22. Certificate of calibration

23. Certificate of calibration
(Calibration Results)

24. Certificate of calibration
(Wind tunnel)

25. Before installation of dataloggers
• Before installation of anemometers, make sure that you
introduce slope & offset of each anemometer in the
datalogger configuration
• If you change an anemometer, you should introduce the
new Slope & Offset.

26. Datalogger configuration

27. Operation & maintenance of
measurement stations

28. Operation & maintenance of wind measurement
stations
• Triangular masts :
 Easy installation of masts & equipements
 Easy operation & maintenance of Anemometers,
Windvanes, cables, etc….

29. Operation & maintenance of wind measurement
stations
• Tubular masts :
 Need ‘’tire-fort’’ for installation of the mast
 Need to disassemble the mast to repair or change the
measuring instruments

30. Follow up of measurement stations
Company
Wind Farm
Country
Province
Site
Station
Localisation
Coordinate system
Y
X
Coordinate system
Y
X
Elevation (m)
Date installation
Last data

31. Informations about datalogger
Data Logger
Type & Serial Number installation date Disassembly date

32. Informations about anemometers,
windvane, etc…
Anemometers
Type & Calibration
installation
Height Serial Disassembly date Slope( Offset Comments
date
Number m/s) (m/s)
60
50
30
Windvanes
Type &
installation Disassembly
Height Serial Offset (º) Comments
date date
Number
54
48

33. Informations about data
Files
Date Date Date Date Date Date
Date
Name Files reception reception reception reception reception reception
data
data data data data data data
Row
Sta
Report (problems)
Date of
Date Description of Incident
repair

34. Follow up of measurement stations
Summary Data
Date Report collection
Names Summary Chang.
technicians Report GSM or PC Log. Next visit Comments

35. Assessment data

36. Wind Softwares
• Assessment data with specialized softwares :
- Alwin (Dewi Institute, Germany)
- Wasp (Risoe Institute, Denmark)
- WindPro (EMD Institute, Denmark)
- WindFarm (Garrad Hassan, Great Britain)
- or others softwares
• Micro-siting (Configuration of windturbines in site)
• Production estimation of windfarms

37. Frequency Distribution

38. Direction Distribution

39. Simulation by WASP Software
.

40. Wind Farms in Morocco

41. Wind Farm of 50 MW
(El Koudia El Baida -Tetouan)
 Power : 50 MW (84 Vestas 600 kW)
 Start production : 8/2000
 Production : 200 GWh/year (Average)
 Wind measurement : CDER
 Operator : CED (EDF-Paribas-Germa/France)
(selled to Theolia in december 2007)
BOT for 20 years
 Average wind speed : - 10 m/s (at 40 meters)
- 11 m/s (at 40 meters)
in the best location in the site

42. Wind Farm 50 MW
(El Koudia El Baida -Tetouan)

43. Wind Farm 60 MW
Cap SIM (Essaouira)
 Power : 60 MW
 Windturbines : 71 Gamesa (G52-850 kW)
 Start production : 04/2007
 Production estimated : 210 GWh/year
 Avearage wind speed (40 m) : 9.45 m/s
 Wind measurements : CDER
 Operator : ONE
 Project Cost : 800 millions DH
(72 Millions Euro)

44. Wind Farm 60 MW
Cap SIM (Essaouira)

45. Wind Farm 140 MW
Tangier
 Power : 140 MW
 Windturbines : 165 Gamesa (850 kW)
 Start production : 04/2009 (107 MW)
 Production estimated : 526,5 GWh/year
 Average wind speed (40 m) : 9 m/s
 Wind measurements : CDER
 Operator : ONE
 Project Cost : 2875 millions DH
(250 Millions Euro)

46. Wind Farm 140 MW
Tangier

47. Wind Farm 32 MW
Lafarge (Cements Factory of Tetouan)
 Power : 32 MW
- 10 MW (12 * 850 kW in 09/2005)
- 10 MW (5 * 2 MW in 09/2008)
- 12 MW (6 * 2 MW in 06/2009)
 Start production : 9/2005
 Production estimated : 115 GWh/year (2009)
 Wind energy Production : - For use in the neigbouring
cement factory in Tetouan
- To transmit any electricity not
consumed there to its other
productions sites elsewhere in
the country (Casablanca), via
the ONE grid
- Extra energy selled to ONE-grid
 Project Cost : 496 millions DH (44 MEuro)

48. Wind Farm 32 MW
Lafarge (Cements Factory of Tetouan)

49. Wind Farms Programmed (2010-2012)
Objective of the Government : Production of 18 % of
electricity from Renewable
Energy (included Hydro) in 2012
Wind Farms Programmed : 1333 MW until 2012
Wind Farms installed : 253 MW
Projects programmed :
- Wind Farm 140 MW (Tangier) : - Start production of 107 MW
in April 2009
- In construction 33 MW
(April 2010)
- Wind Farm 300 MW (Tarfaya) : BOT (Call of tenders,
selection before 12/2009)
- 200 MW (September 2011)
- 100 MW (October 2012)
- Self-producers projects : 1000 MW (2010-2012)

50. Conclusion
• Operation & maintenance of wind measurement stations is
very important to have a good data because an increase of
50-75% of wind speed, increases of 300-500% the power
PV = 0,37 V3
(PV : Power of wind in W/m2 V : Wind speed in m/s)
• Necessary to follow up wind measurement stations by
GSM systems
• Each month, it’s necessary to visit measurement stations
& verification of anemometers, windvanes, cables of
masts, etc….
• After collection of data, it’s necessary to make verification
of all anemometers data to detect a possible any default

51. Renewable Energy Development Center (CDER)
Thank you for your Attention
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enzili@hotmail.com
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