HIBAPRESS – Abdellatif Baraka
Morocco is moving towards strengthening its energy strategy by investing in energy storage and developing an infrastructure capable of keeping pace with the rapid transition towards renewable energies.
This trend comes within the framework of the Kingdom's endeavor to ensure the stability of the national electricity grid and reduce dependence on fossil fuels, especially in light of the significant expansion of solar and wind energy projects. Morocco is betting on storage technologies to ensure a stable supply of electricity during peak periods or when the production of renewable energies declines, which opens the door to promising industrial and technological investments in the field of the green economy. In the same context, the Kingdom is working to employ its new port infrastructure to support this strategy, by converting some ports into strategic platforms for storing energy and energy materials. In this framework, the port project of Nador West Med stands out, which is expected to be put into operation during the year 2026, where it will house the first liquefied natural gas station in Morocco with a capacity of up to about five billion cubic meters annually, in addition to advanced facilities for storing and processing energy and its derivatives within an integrated industrial-energy pole. It is also expected that several Moroccan ports will, in the future, turn into logistics centers linked to energy, whether through the storage of natural gas or supporting green hydrogen projects and exporting clean energies to international markets, within the framework of a strategic vision that aims to make Morocco a regional energy platform that connects Europe and Africa. These projects fall within a national plan aimed at raising the share of renewable energies in the electrical capacity to more than 52 percent by the year 2030, which enhances the Kingdom's energy security.
