For six months, a village about 120 km from Casablanca advantage of solar panels and thus electricity. Like most rural households in Morocco, these homes have no running water, but a television, which, hitherto, has been fuelled by generators or batteries truck, harmful to the environment. The project to equip rural homes with solar panels (rural electrification program overall PERG) is the result of collaboration between Temasol and its partners Total and EDF, which equips 16,000 rural households in solar panels on behalf of Moroccan Business (1)


Unfortunately, this energy is still seen as the energy of the poor (often it is too expensive to connect remote homes to the electricity grid by wire), which is a shame, but understandable from the point of view of users. It is the only possibility of feeding habitats: it is photovoltaic energy or anything. Regarding sustainable development it is a huge step forward. Certainly, in its policy Temasol also considers the trunking and generators, but also wind power. In Morocco, yet half of rural households have no electricity.

And it is not the only thing made of sustainable energy in Morocco:
The National Center for Coordination and Planning of Scientific and Technical Research focuses on wind technology. Morocco has the necessary conditions for progress on this approach, which may attract investors strange. So is a park planned to wind Koudia Al Baida in the province of Tetuan and new projects are considered.
Hydropower is another possibility with some 200 potential sites.
The government supports the efforts of renewable energy, too, because it represents a considerable access to houses.

Support by the associations: at the site of http://www.tanmia.ma/, main portal of communication on sustainable development, the organisation ENDA Maghreb launches a questionnaire to better understand the needs of energy players concerned. The initiative has its roots in the African Development Bank (ADB), who wishes to build capacity in sustainable energy.

In terms of supply, Morocco faces major challenges. Only 5% of the energy comes from the country itself: only the hydroelectric power and renewable energy (wind and solar) are produced locally. Another problem is the cost: to satisfy their need for energy overall, the Moroccans spent a sum estimated at 37.7 billion dirhams in 2005, which weighs heavily on the country's economy.

Morocco is largely dependent on oil and coal. At first glance, this dependence seems difficult to manage (it is), but at the same time it has prompted the country to take a different route for supplies. A new industry is being formed, with major economic benefits, social and environmental. The creation of many jobs, reducing the difference in quality of life between rural and urban, and the reduction of pollution, among them. For the moment, Morocco advance slowly, but it has almost everything it needs: wind, solar, hydropower sites. It remains to find investors, and to make the Moroccans they can be proud of their solar panels. Because during the "industrialized" countries are struggling to agree on their approach to environmental issues affecting (admittedly a larger), Morocco advance, little by little, but it beforehand.