Green industrial manufacturing driven by renewable energy has significant potential to hire individuals with low levels of education in urban areas, provided they are able to acquire technical vocational training through an appropriate expansion of Morocco’s training ecosystem in coordination with the needs of the country’s green energy ecosystem.
Within Morocco’s green energy ecosystem, climate-smart and green technologies are emerging as a foundation of its innovation ecosystem of start-up MSMEs and the incubators and accelerators to support them. This innovation ecosystem has formed the leading edge of the opportunity for MSMEs under the growing national focus on sustainable development.
Morocco’s strategic initiative to replace coal power plants with natural gas combined-cycle power plants emerges as a potential solution to enhance power system resilience against water stress. The national plan aims to install an additional 2,400 MW of natural gas power plant capacity by 2030 and completely phase out coal-fired plants by 2050.
For example, Morocco’s largest wind power facility is being developed by Total Eren, a wholly owned subsidiary of French energy giant TotalEnergies, 10 as part of the company’s $10 billion green ammonia mega-project in Morocco’s Guelmim-Oued Nour region.
The European market accounts for 90% of Morocco’s exports, 47 with Europe’s two best-selling car models — the Peugeot 208 and Renault’s Dacia Sandero — made in Morocco. 48 The manufacture of their EV versions on Moroccan soil is a near-term likelihood. 49 Already, Germany’s Opel and Italy’s Fiat have begun the production of EV models in Morocco. 50
Moroccan hydropower plants facing increased aridity under various climate scenarios from 2021 to 2100. Source: International Energy Agency (IEA) . A detailed pre-feasibility analysis conducted for a German fuel and gas distribution company exploring the possibility of importing green hydrogen from Morocco. Source: Alexec Consulting.