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Morocco is not exactly rich in rivers.
by AtlasLion 11y ago
Morocco is not exactly rich in rivers.
- IkmoIkmo 11y agoTrue, but you'd be surprised. Morocco has more than two dozen hydro stations, 460MW of pumped storage and there's still some unused capacity for future hydro projects. Hydro obviously isn't the future of electricity for Morocco, indeed there aren't enough rivers, but it's playing a substantial role today as part of the renewable energy mix, e.g. numbers from a few years ago show hydro generated twice as much electricity as all solar/wind. http://www.iea.org/stats/WebGraphs/MOROCCO2.pdf http://www.iea.org/stats/WebGraphs/MOROCCO2.pdf Take the recent solar project, Noor I, that's launching within a month. Its production is about 370GWH per year, hydro currently does something close to 1900 GWH.