he Atlantic blows hard off Essaouira, and the kingdom is at last going to measure what that wind is worth. OWC, of the Norwegian ABL Group, announced on September 3 that it leads the consortium appointed by the European Investment Bank for the feasibility study of Morocco’s first offshore wind farm, a project endorsed by Masen.
The study runs over two years, from site selection and a wind measurement campaign to grid connection.
The calendar says something the announcement does not. The notice published in the Official Journal of the European Union dates the conclusion of the contract to October 14, 2025, for 1,990,158 euros: the decision is nearly a year old, and what has just been announced is the start of the work itself.
Morocco has no legal framework of its own for offshore wind yet, and it will fall to the consultants to draw one up. The Union for the Mediterranean places construction around 2029 and sizes the farm at 1,000 megawatts.
The study is to say whether a wind everyone calls exceptional can carry a farm, and at what price.
Photo: Goldfinchshuffle, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Official Journal of the European Union — contract award notice 601466-2026, OJ S 168/2026, 1 September 2026.
OWC (ABL Group) — press release “OWC is leading a consortium advising Morocco’s first offshore wind development”, 3 September 2026.
Barlamane — « La BEI attribue à OWC l’étude de faisabilité du premier parc éolien maritime marocain de 1 000 MW au large d’Essaouira », 3 September 2026.
