Morocco is opening up tenders for five wind farm projects totaling some 850 megawatts in the country, the state-run power utility ONE announced on Friday. The operator will receive bids until March 2 for what they said would be the “development, design, financing, construction, operation and maintenance” of the five projects in the North African country. Companies must first pass the preliminary phase and then if they are successful they will be invited to put forward a bid for an international tender to be launched sometime in the second quarter of 2012. “The 850 megawatt wind farm project will be structured under a ‘build, own, operate and transfer' scheme,” ONE said in a statement. Morocco has been pushing forward on its renewable energy sector and has already seen great strides in diversification of its exports to the European Union. ONE also needs to provide for a domestic electricity demand that grows by an annual 6 percent. The project will be realized under a public-private partnership with ONE, the Energy Investments Company and King Hassan Fund, all of which are owned by the state. The tender also includes the separate procurement and maintenance of a 200 megawatt wind farm. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/Cq8zW Tags: Renewable Energy, Wind Farm Section: Going Green, Latest News, Morocco
