The Xlinks Power Generation Project in Morocco, Tan-Tan Project, is a large Renewable Energy Power Plant, that has the aim to carry solar and wind-generated electricity from Morocco to the United Kingdom with the following infrastructures:
This is a a large Renewable Energy Power Plant to export electricity from Morocco to UK:
• Installed Solar PV Capacity: 7 GW.
• Installed Wind Farm Capacity: 3.5 GW in the form of around 614 wind turbines.
• Battery Energy Storage System: 5GW / 20 GWh.
• HV Connection of 225 kV (Morocco output power / UK input power): 4.1 GW / 3.6 GW
The services carried out for this large project included:
- Socio-economic survey and elaboration of a Community Development Plan for the power generation site.
- Stakeholders Engagement Plan, SEP. It shall include the FPIC process and the Grievance Mechanism as well as a Communication Plan.
- Archaeological assessment for the power generation site.
- International Environmental and Social Impact Assessment, ESIA.
- Environmental and Social Management Plan, ESMP.
- Standalone Non-Technical Summary.
- National ESIA, including the submission to the authorities and the support to the client during the clarifications period
- Birds and Bats, Critical Habitats, Noise and Shadow Flicker as well as Landscape and Visual Impacts Assessment.
