{"id":288997,"date":"2021-02-19T18:54:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T21:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=288997"},"modified":"2021-02-19T18:54:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T21:54:07","slug":"morocco-invests-usd-5-8-billion-in-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/morocco-invests-usd-5-8-billion-in-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco invests USD 5.8 billion in renewable energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Morocco announced that it will invest MAD 52.1 billion (USD 5.8 billion) in renewable energy. Major solar projects are underway in different cities, and the country is looking to meet over 52% of its electricity needs through renewable resources by 2030, as well as to become self-sufficient in the long haul. <em>Pictured above is the world\u2019s biggest solar power plant, in Ouarzazate, Morocco<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco\u2019s minister of Mines and Energy, Aziz Rabbah, said Morocco\u2019s installed capacity from renewable sources is 3,950 megawatts, the equivalent to some 37% of total installed capacity, and enough to meet 20% of the country\u2019s needs, newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moroccoworldnews.com\/2021\/02\/335269\/morocco-invests-nearly-5-8-billion-in-renewable-energy-projects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morocco World News<\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbah said 100 renewable energy projects are underway, including water desalination plantsKey projects include the Ouarzazate solar plant and the Ain Beni Mathar and Foum El Oued stations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-288959\">Michel Gunther\/Biosphoto\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North African country is looking to meet over 52% of its electricity needs through renewable resources by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":288959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[27596,27597,12625,9552,9558,19269],"class_list":{"0":"post-288997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-energia-solar-en-2","9":"tag-energias-renovaveis-en","10":"tag-marrocos-ar","11":"tag-marrocos-en","12":"tag-morocco-en","13":"tag-renewable"},"wps_subtitle":"The North African country is looking to meet over 52% of its electricity needs through renewable resources by 2030.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}