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The African Finance Corporation is taking a huge step towards achieving sustainability goals on the African continent, through a huge project linking Morocco to the United Kingdom via submarine cables to transmit solar and wind energy.
This ambitious project represents a qualitative leap in Africa’s journey towards transforming it into a global center for renewable energy, and contributes significantly to achieving its climate goals and its commitment to reducing carbon emissions.
The project has a production capacity of 10.5 gigawatts of solar and wind energy, with storage batteries that can accommodate half of this capacity. Which makes it one of the largest renewable energy projects in the world.
The project extends along 3,800 kilometers of submarine cables. It arrives from Morocco to the United Kingdom, on a historic journey that paves the way for the transfer of clean energy across continents.
The total cost of the project is approximately $20 billion, and X-Links is leading this giant project, in cooperation with prominent global partners such as Total Energy, General Electric, and TAQA (Abu Dhabi).
The project contributes to enhancing the energy security of the United Kingdom by providing a clean and sustainable energy source. This reduces its dependence on fossil fuels, and the project also plays an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, combating climate change, and protecting the environment from pollution.
On the economic side, this project stimulates economic growth in Africa in general and in Morocco in particular by creating new job opportunities, attracting foreign investments, and developing infrastructure. It also helps strengthen international cooperation between Africa and the United Kingdom, and constitutes a role model for cooperation in the field of renewable energy.
Africa is a continent rich in natural resources and has enormous potential for renewable energy generation, with capacity reaching 110 gigawatts of wind power and 250 gigawatts of solar power.
This enormous potential can be exploited to provide energy not only for domestic consumption, but also for export to other countries, such as the United Kingdom. This helps achieve sustainable development goals on the continent and advance the faltering development wheel in this region.
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