Estimating the Renewable Energy Potential in Morocco: solar energy as a case study

Tazi, G; Jbaihi, Ouafae; Ghennioui, Abdellatif; Merrouni, Ahmed Alami; Bakkali, Mohammed

doi:10.1088/1755-1315/161/1/012015

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“…The development has been uneven across the globe though. In a study by [11], the current status and outlook of RES in Morocco was assessed. Morocco has exceptional good potential for the exploitation of particularly PV, but also good prospects for wind power-two technologies already adopted in the country.…”

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Barriers and Solutions for Increasing the Integration of Solar Photovoltaic in Kenya’s Electricity Mix

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Currently, Kenya depends mainly on oil, geothermal energy and hydro resources for electricity production, however all three have associated issues. Oil-based electricity generation is environmentally harmful, expensive and a burden to the national trade balance. The rivers for hydropower and their tributaries are found in arid and semi-arid areas with erratic rainfall leading to problems of supply security, and geothermal exploitation has cost and risk issues amongst others. Given these problems and the fact that Kenya has a significant yet underexploited potential for photo voltaic (PV)-based power generation, the limited—although growing—exploitation of solar PV in Kenya is explored in this paper as a means of diversifying and stabilising electricity supply. The potential for integration of PV into the Kenyan electricity generation mix is analysed together with the sociotechnical, economic, political, and institutional and policy barriers, which limit PV integration. We argue that these barriers can be overcome with improved and more robust policy regulations, additional investments in research and development, and improved coordination of the use of different renewable energy sources. Most noticeably, storage solutions and other elements of flexibility need to be incorporated to balance the intermittent character of electricity generation based on solar PV.

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Barriers and Solutions for Increasing the Integration of Solar Photovoltaic in Kenya’s Electricity Mix

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“…In North Africa, Morocco is one of the most important investor countries in the CSP. Tazi et al [33] evaluated the potential of Morocco to host solar power plants from CSP and PV technologies. Four criteria (climate, orography, location and water resource) and eight sub-criteria (Direct Normal Irradiation eDNI-, slope, distance from residential, distance from road and railway network, distance from the electricity grid, distance from waterways, distance from dams and distance from underground water) were selected to analyze the problem.…”

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“…Alami-Merrouni et al [32] assessed the suitability of the Eastern Morocco region to install CSP power plants. Criteria similar to Tazi et al [33] were considered to analyze the CSP technology location and the constraints layer was created to find the unsuitable areas. GIS and the MCDM (AHP method) were combined for the evaluation of dry and wet cooling techniques.…”

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“…Aly et al [41]; analyzed the solar (CSP and PV) power potential of Tanzania using GIS and AHP tools. Protected areas, land cover, GIS-AHP PV Malatya, Turkey [20] GIS-AHP PV Brazil [21] GIS-AHP Wind farm Iran [22] GIS-AHP Wind, PV and biomass Malaga, Spain [23] GIS-AHP PV-hydrogen Algeria [24] GIS-AHP PV Southern Morocco [25] GIS-AHP PV Istanbul, Turkey [26] GIS-AHP PV and CSP Unit of Rethymno, Greece [27] GIS-AHP PV Croatia [28] GIS-AHP Wind energy Andalusia, Spain [29] GIS-AHP CSP United Arab Emirates [30] GIS-AHP CSP and PV West Africa [31] GIS-Boolean-Fuzzy Logic Model PV Iran [32] GIS-AHP CSP Eastern Morocco [33] GIS-AHP CSP and PV Morocco [34] GIS-Fuzzy AHP Solar farms (PV) Mekkah, Saudi Arabia [35] GIS-AHP Wind energy Nigeria [36] GIS-AHP and Boolan model Landfill Haryana, India [37] GIS-AHP PV Saudi Arabia [38] GIS-AHP PV and Wind Tehran, Iran [39] GIS-AHP PV and Wind Philippines [40] GIS-(AHP, ELECTRE, TOPSIS and VIKOR) PV Anatolian, Turkey [41] GIS-AHP CSP and PV Tanznia [42] GIS-Weighted Linear Combination and AHP Solar farms (PV) Legionowo District Poland [43] GIS-Boolean logic Wind farm Western Iran [44] GIS-AHP/Weighted Linear Combination Wind farm Silesia, Poland [45] GIS-AHP PV Karapinar, Konya/Turkey [46] GIS-AHP PV Southern Morocco [47] GIS-AHP and TOPSIS PV South-eastern Spain topography, water bodies, urban expansion, and low solar radiation were the integrated criteria to find unsuitable areas. AHP method was applied to calculate the importance of each criterion.…”

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Mapping concentrated solar power site suitability in Algeria

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“…Researches have been conducted to define the potential of Morocco for the introduction of solar systems according to a set of criteria such as Climate, Orography, Water resource and Location [9] and the results showed that Morocco has great potential for two technologies CSP and PV especially in the South region. M. Azeroual et al [2] have even go further in forecasting the solar potential for the year 2030.…”

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Battery Sizing Based on the Energy Lack and Surplus Analysis in a Stand-Alone Photovoltaic System

Andam¹,

Alami²,

Louartassi³

2019

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Innovative Research in Science Engineering and Technology

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The need of electricity in the world is increasing continuously, hence the emergency to resort to the exploitation of renewable energies especially for some countries like Morocco. Despite the different advantages of these energies, these are also characterized by two harmful aspects, particularly the intermittency and the difficulty of storage. In order to avoid such barriers, most researchers and industrials prefer to invest in renewable energy systems connected to the grid or other continuous energy source to meet regularly electrical needs. However, the purpose of this article is to focus on the analysis of a storage system for an off grid photovoltaic system. The goal is then to optimize the storage capacity of the installation by minimizing the oversizing which causes losses and high costs. In our article, we focused on the design of a virtual photovoltaic system located in a rural area of Errachidia in Morocco. We estimated the energy required by the load, also the necessary power of the photovoltaic field, then we estimated the Surplus and the Lack generated throughout the year based on the meteorological data of the site. Analysis of these virtual estimates can allow us to define the real required battery capacity and the appropriated number of autonomy days in order to avoid consequently oversizing.

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Estimating the Renewable Energy Potential in Morocco: solar energy as a case study

Cited by 11 publications

References 5 publications

Barriers and Solutions for Increasing the Integration of Solar Photovoltaic in Kenya’s Electricity Mix

Barriers and Solutions for Increasing the Integration of Solar Photovoltaic in Kenya’s Electricity Mix

Mapping concentrated solar power site suitability in Algeria

Battery Sizing Based on the Energy Lack and Surplus Analysis in a Stand-Alone Photovoltaic System

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