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North Africa: New sources of energy
The solar energy represents a real alternative within the framework of the sustainable development today, and “Desertec” project fits well within the current optics. Big European energy companies believe in it.Ministers of Energy from Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria reviewed the actions introduced since 2007 and adopted the declaration of Algiers which fixes new actions for the period 2010-2015.
It is also within the framework of the project called ” the progressive Integration of the markets of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, to the electricity market of the European Union “, that already prefigures the very ambitious project of supplying Europe with electricity from solar power plants implanted in the Maghreb. This energy will be transported to Europe via submarine cables.
Upstream, the three countries came down with the decision to construct an electric Grid capable of interconnecting the major power plants and “improve the exchanges”. The Moroccan Minister of Energy, Amina Benkhadra, approached the recent changes arisen in the electric system from the Maghreb which were translated by the interconnections of the 400 KV between Morocco and Algeria. “That will boost the intensification of the capacities of interconnection between the two counties”. She also reminded that “the inter-Maghreb connections and their interconnections with Europe, via the cable Morocco-Spain, has been working for several years… “
The integration and the emergence of an electricity power market will contribute to the creation of a free trade space between the Mediterranean countries and the EU which will constitute, in the long term, a bridge between the northern and southern neighbouring countries of the Mediterranean Sea “.