VOL. XLV

No 7

18-February-2002

MOROCCO

Morocco Launches New Phase OfEnergy Deregulation

Morocco has launched the latestphase of its energy deregulation program with plans to upgrade refineries, increaserural electrification to 30,000 villages to allow all rural communities to beconnected to the national grid by 2006, boost the use of natural gas for powerand industry and raise renewable energy痴 contribution to the overall nationalmix to 10% by 2010, Prime Minister Abderrahmane Youssoufi and...