Sahara Wind Energy Development Company

Presentation:

The Public Diplomacy Division Collaborative Programmes Section of NATO in charge of the “Science for Peace and Security” Program finances research projects which address Partner Mediterranean Dialogue priority areas. The Sahara Wind Energy Development Company based in Rabat, Morocco is coordinating this applied research program on a regional base aimed at co-developing New Energy Technology solutions in Morocco and Mauritania via industrial synergies.

Project brief description:

The “Sahara Trade Winds to Hydrogen: Applied Research for Sustainable Energy Systems" Project whose kick-off meeting has been held in Rabat on the 29-30th of November 2007 regroups several of Morocco and Mauritania’s education and research institutions associated to their local energy consuming industries around this joint applied research project.

This Project officially started on June 20th 2007 and the latest follow-up meeting has taken place at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, on February 12-13 2009. The NATO SfP-982620 Project is an integral part of the mechanisms made available by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to its Mediterranean Dialogue Partner Countries.

Presentations made during the NATO SfP-982620 kick-off meeting:

• Presentation, objectives and introduction NATO SfP-982620 Day1
• Presentation and fonctionning NATO SfP-982620
• Presentation of Sahara Wind PPD NATO SfP-982620

Presentations from the NATO SfP-982620 follow-up meeting:

Presentations of the NATO SfP-982620 Project at the 12th IPHE SC/ILC meeting in Washington DC (USA):

• Regional Hydrogen Roadmap - Project Development Framework for the Sahara Wind Project

Publications on the NATO Science for Peace SfP-982620 Project: 

• WWEC 2022 - North Africa’s assets in the green-hydrogen energy transition, Rimini, Italy June 2022
• ICEMAEP 2018 - Sahara Winds Inclusive, Proprietary Project Concept, Constantine, Algeria April 2018
• WWEC 2017 - Upgrading North Africa's Phosphates into Carbon-free Fertilizers, Malmö, Sweden June 2017
• WWEC 2016 - Paving the way to large-scale wind: Morocco's pre-COP22 policies, Tokyo, Japan Nov 2016
• Energy in Transition: The Sahara Wind Power Project, Journal of Energy Security, May 2014
• WWEC 2014 - Resource-backed inclusive wind-energy driven economies, Shanghai, China, April 2014
• EHEC 2014 - Hydrogen from the trade winds in North Africa’s energy transition, Seville, Spain March 2014
• WWEC 2013 - Integrated Access to North Africa’s Trade Wind Resources, Havana, Cuba, June 2013
• Projet Sahara Wind - Power Day 2 Ecole Mohammedia d'Ingenieurs, Rabat, Morocco Feb 2012
• Connecting Wind and Water - The Sahara Wind Project. Article on Revolve-Magazine, Jan 2012
• IPWE 2012 Production of Drinking Water in Arid Regions using Renewable Energies, Marrakech, Jan 2012
• Jobs & Wind Energy in Morocco by 2020: Summary presentation by Morocco’s Ministry of Energy, Feb 2011
• WWEC 2011 Integrating North Africa’s Trade Winds into the Euro-Mediterranean Grid Cairo, Egypt Nov 2011
• Sahara Wind: A Regionally Integrated, Market-Based Project of Strategic Importance, Morocco July 2011
• World Hydrogen Demonstration Project by Int'l Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy IPHE, March 2011
• MENA RE Summit -Sahara Wind Project: A Regional Catalyst for Renewables. Marrakech, Morocco, Nov 2010
• WHEC2010 - Regional Hydrogen Roadmap for Sahara Wind Project. Essen, Germany, May 2010
• IPHE 2009 - 12th Joint Meeting NATO SfP-982620 Sahara Trade Winds to Hydrogen. Washington DC, Dec. 2009
• MENA RE Summit - Energy Security in the Euro-Mediterranean context. Cairo, Egypt, October 2009
• NATO ARW - Energy Options Impact on Regional Security. Split, Croatia, June 2009
• WWEC 2009 - Regional Industry/Academia Technology Deployment Program. Jeju, South Korea, June 2009
• WREC 2008 - Intl Cooperation on Research EU-Sustainable Energy Perspectives. Glasgow, UK, July 2008
• HTDW - Development of Large Scale Integrated Sustainable Energy Systems. Moscow, Russia, April 2008
• WWEC 2007 - Wind Energy as Catalyst for Regional Development. Mar Del Plata, Argentina, October 2007
• IEA Publication "Building the Hydrogen Economy Part II: Sharing the European Vision", IEA Paris, July 2007
• NATO ARW - Capacity Building for Sustainable Energy Access in the Sahel Region. Naples, Italy July 2007
• WWEC2006 - Integrating Wind Power in Africa Case Studies of Morocco & Egypt. New Delhi, India 11.2006
• Article sur Windtech international N°7 du 10.2006
• Publication for International Seminar on Hydrogen for Sustainable Dvt + IPHE Reykjavik Iceland 09.2006
• NATO ARW - Hydrogen Fuelling Sustainability and Regional Development. Istanbul, Turkey August 2006

Partner country Project Director (PPD):
Khalid Benhamou, Partner country Project Director (PPD) NATO Science for Peace - SfP 982620

Contacts:

Sahara Wind Inc.

https://www.saharawind.com/contact