Morocco’s sustainable energy transition and the role of financing costs: a participatory electricity system modeling approach

Table 2 Four electricity scenarios for 2050 co-developed in a stakeholder workshop

	Scenario 1		Scenario 2		Scenario 3		Scenario 4
	Capacity	Production	Capacity	Production	Capacity	Production	Capacity	Production
	[MW]	[TWh]	[MW]	[TWh]	[MW]	[TWh]	[MW]	[TWh]
Technologies
Wind	35,000	111	45,000	142	10,000	32	40,000	126
Solar PV	15,000	23	30,000	45	50,000	75	10,000	15
Reservoir hydro	3100	0	3100	0	3100	0	3100	0
Biomass	3000	18	5000	16	0	0	3000	16
CSP	2000	4	2000	2	1300	3	1500	2
Hard coal	5000	20	0	0	4937	35	6000	21
Oil	741	2	0	0	741	4	741	1
Natural gas	5500	9	0	0	6172	35	6172	7
Nuclear	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	69,341	185	85,100	205	76,250	184	70,513	189
Pumped-hydro storage
Capacity [GWh]	702		2000		2000		702
Pump capacity [GW]	9.0		10.0		10.0		8.1
Turbine capacity [GW]	7.3		16.0		12.9		5.9
Thereof (in %)…^a
Intermittent	65%	71%	74%	93%	67%	58%	66%	74%
Partially variable	7%	3%	5%	1%	5%	4%	6%	3%
Variable	28%	26%	21%	13%	28%	47%	28%	24%
Renewables	76%	84%	84%	102%	72%	62%	76%	85%

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