{"id":13642,"date":"2025-10-24T06:43:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T04:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/morocco-plans-coal-power-phase-out-by-2040\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:31","slug":"morocco-plans-coal-power-phase-out-by-2040","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/morocco-plans-coal-power-phase-out-by-2040\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco plans coal power phase-out by 2040"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-body-separator-line\">\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Morocco plans to abandon coal power entirely by 2040 if it secures international climate finance, the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) said on Thursday.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div>\nMorocco joined the international PPCA, a group of around 60 governments seeking to phase out coal power, in 2023, in a bid to progress natural gas and renewable energy projects.\u00a0Even without international support, Morocco would still aim to phase out coal by the 2040s, the PPCA said in a statement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As of 2024, coal accounted for 59.3% of Morocco&#8217;s electricity mix, down from 70% in 2022, according to official figures. Morocco is targeting 52% of installed capacity to come from renewables by 2030, up from 45% currently.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Morocco has stopped planning for new coal power plants,&#8221; Morocco&#8217;s Energy Minister was quoted as saying in the PPCA statement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The phase-out pledge &#8220;signals intent to manage early plant retirements, contractual reforms, and a just transition backed by accessible international climate finance,&#8221; said Rachid Ennassiri, Head of Independent Climate think tank Imal<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13643,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-13642","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Morocco joined the international PPCA, a group of around 60 governments seeking to phase out coal power","published_date":null,"news_description":"Morocco joined the international PPCA, a group of around 60 governments seeking to phase out coal power","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18672,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13642\/revisions\/18672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}