Unit three of the coal-fired Jorf Lasfar power station in Morocco has begun commercial operation. The fourth unit of the $1.5 billion station is due to start in the fourth quarter of this year when the total capacity will reach 1356 MWe. The plant will generate more than 50 per cent of the country’s total electrical production and its output will be sold to the state electricity board, ONE, under a 30 year power purchase agreement. When complete, the station will be the largest independent power producer in the continent. Its developer, the Jorf Lasfar Energy Company, is owned equally by the CMS subsidiary CMS Generation Co of the USA, and ABB.
