Morocco and the United Arab Emirates have signed a $14 billion investment agreement focusing on renewable energy, water security, and advanced infrastructure. The agreement’s key stakeholders include Morocco’s ONEE, the Mohammed VI Investment Fund, TAQA Morocco (part of Abu Dhabi’s TAQA Group), and Nareva. The agreement comprises a 1,400-km high-voltage direct current transmission line to link Dakhla in the south with Casablanca and major northern cities. It will transmit up to 3,000 MW of renewable energy from 1,200 MW of new solar and wind projects. The agreement also includes four major desalination plants, with capacities of 50 million m³/year in Tanger, 300 million m³ in Nador, 350 million m³ in Tiznit, and one plant in Tan-Tan to support the southern regions.

Swedish company Metcon secured a €1.82 million (~$2.06 million) contract to deliver a 1 MW pressurized alkaline electrolysis plant to one of Morocco’s leading renewable energy investors, which manages around 2,000 MW of wind assets. The containerized, turnkey solution will be installed on-site. This pilot project will test the direct coupling of wind turbines with electrolyzers to produce hydrogen off-grid.

TAQA Energy Services and United Arab Emirates University completed the third phase of a 9,000 kW solar project at the university’s Al Ain campus. Featuring 14,400 solar panels spanning 84,000 m², the system generates 18.7 million kWh of energy annually, meeting approximately 30% of the university’s electricity demand. The project’s initial phase achieved a 27% decline in energy consumption through retrofitting the solar systems on select university buildings. The subsequent phases extended these systems to more buildings within the campus.

Egypt’s Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy has issued qualification certificates to four privately financed renewable energy projects, totaling 400 MW of capacity and worth $388 million. The projects are developed under the new private-to-private framework, where generators sell power directly to industrial users without state guarantees. The projects include solar and hybrid solar-wind plants.