The Moroccan Agency for Energy Efficiency (AMEE) organized, on Tuesday in Rabat, in partnership with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), a closing workshop of the support project for solar pumping in agriculture.
The objective of this event is to present the key results and the tools developed within the framework of the project for an appropriate development of solar pumping in the field of agricultural irrigation and to discuss the opportunities for capitalizing on its achievements for future generalization. , says a statement from the AMEE.
After four years of its implementation by the AMEE, in partnership with the UNDP and with the financial support of the GEF, all the activities initially programmed at the level of the various axes and products of the project have been deployed, specifies the press release.
The main target results “have also been achieved and even exceeded, in a particularly difficult context marked by the Covid-19 pandemic” which characterized the last two years of the project, welcomed the AMEE. These four years have been focused on raising awareness of the strategic issues of the solar pumping market in agriculture and the development of the tools necessary for adequate support of this market, through the promotion of the quality of equipment and installations, training and capacity building for stakeholders in the sector as well as tools for monitoring and evaluating the environmental impact of solar pumping, particularly on water resources, notes the press release. The PSIA – GEF/Solar pumping project, which falls within the framework of the national energy transition strategy and is one of the energy efficiency measures proposed for the agricultural sector, has set itself the overall objective of establishment of a framework conducive to the development of the solar pumping market, through three main axes.
