Morocco: Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Power (ISCCP) Project

WASHINGTON, April 19, 2007 - The following project was approved today by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors:

GEF GRANT: US$ 43.2 million

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The project responds to Morocco’s urgent need for new power generating capacity as the government seeks policies to diversify the power generation mix, to reduce the country’s energy dependence and to integrate into regional and EU markets.

For more information, please call Dina El Naggar at (1-202) 473-3245 or email: Delnaggar@worldbank.org.

For project documents, please visit the project web site.