Friday 28 March 2008

Moroccan airports go green



Morocco property aims to develop green environment-friendly airports by using clean energy, particularly the wind power, CEO of the Moroccan Office of Airports (ONDA) said.

To meet this challenge, Mr. Abdelhanin Benallou said ONDA is in the process of finalizing a "very important" project, worth some USD 39.4Mn, to supply airports property with wind power, noting that, by virtue of this project, the totality of airport's electricity supply will be generated in southern Morocco property - probably in Essaouira - and transmitted to ONDA's network which will supply all Morocco's airports.

The project, which supply for creating a wind plant with a production capacity of 10 to 20 MW, will let the ONDA to reduce the energy prices by generating electricity from clean energy instead of coal and oil.

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