VOL. XLIII

No. 32

7-August-2000

MOROCCO

CMS Starts Operation of Unit 3 at Jorf Lasfar Power Plant

Michigan-based CMS Generation announced on 1 August the start of commercial operations at Unit 3 of its $1.5bn coal-fueled Jorf Lasfar facility, located 130km southwest of Casablanca on the Atlantic coast. The 348mw generator began supplying power to the Moroccan national utility Office Nationale de lElectricite (ONE) on 9 June. Under the terms of a 30-year purchase agreement, all power generated at...