KEY MESSAGES
- Description: Integrated model enabling energy and cost savings for farms by substituting fuel with an olive-derived clean and renewable energy source. The project scope encompasses planting of olive trees, olive crushing and production of olive mill pomace to investment in biomass boilers.
- Specificity: Integrated approach that enabled meeting 60% of fuel needs
- Impact: 24,000 tons CO2 reduction
HOW IT WORKS
Ashes
> Biomass energy production covers 60% of current energy needs
Planting of olive trees
Olive crushing unit
> Olive mill pomace is obtained as a by-product of olive crushing process
Biomass energy production
> Olive pomace oil extraction leaves in turn a by-product fuel the biomass boiler
Olive mill pomace
> Olive mill pomace is then dried to cut water content from 40% to 12%
SCOPE
MOROCCO
BUDGET
DH50M
IMPACTS
Agricultural productivity
Fuel savings for farms exceeding
Dh35M between 2009 and 2015
Climate change
Greenhouse gas emission reductions
Project registered as part of clean development mechanisms
Sustainable dev. goals
60% of energy needs met with biomass
Helping Morocco meet 2050 target of 50% clean energy
NEXT STEPS
Target: production of 100 % of biomass-based steam
