“Developing energy cooperation with African countries has always been a strategic choice for Morocco,” said the Minister of Energy and Mining, Amina Benkhadra, at the opening of the second African Forum of Electrical Energy held on Thursday.

Themed "Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energies", the two-day forum brought together some 315 experts and specialists representing some 27 countries.

The event is meant to explore the latest technology advances in terms of energy effectiveness and renewable energies.

Benkhadra stressed, in a speech read on her behalf, that it is only through reinforced regional cooperation that we can generalise access to commercial energies at competitive and affordable costs in Africa.

The minister added that fruitful cooperation will help mobilize Africa's renewable resources and strengthen its energy efficiency.

She also recalled that Morocco has concluded a number of cooperation and partnership agreements with many African countries.

Moroccan companies have carried out important development projects in the energy sector in several African countries.

For his part, managing director of the National Office of Electricity Utility (ONE), Younès Maâmar, underlined that “Africa has enormous potential in renewable energies, which is not very well exploited.”