This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Heba Press – Rabat
Zuhair Charfi expressed his deep pride in the honorable Mawlawi trust placed in him by King Mohammed VI by appointing him as head of the National Electricity Regulatory Authority and the royal directives aimed at adopting an in-depth reform to expand the missions of the latter and strengthen its regulatory roles in the energy sector.
In his speech at the meeting of the Infrastructure, Energy, Minerals and Environment Committee at the House of Representatives on Wednesday, Al-Sharafi mentioned the main objectives of the energy strategy, the bases of which were posed by His Majesty the King since 2009., which guarantees our country a smooth energy transition towards production and consumption which are mainly based on self-renewable energies instead of imported fossil energies, relying on immense our country’s wind and solar energy reservoir.
The President of the Authority highlighted the central role that green electric energy should play in eliminating or reducing carbon at the level of national industries, particularly those for export, as well as in improving their competitiveness.
Al-Sharafi stressed that our country seeks to carry out seawater desalination projects to fill the shortage resulting from successive years of drought and produce green hydrogen to meet national needs and export the surplus towards Europe.
Charfi did not fail to underline the importance of the natural gas sector as a complement and facilitator of the energy transition in our country. He also noted Morocco’s intention to strengthen its electricity links with Europe and sub-Saharan Africa.
