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Volume 42 Issue 2
Upon a kind invitation from
the Secretary General of the
Arab Union of Electricity (AUE)
Eng Fawzi Kharbat, OAPEC
Secretary General HE Abbas
Ali Al Naqi took part in the 5th
General Conference of the Arab
Union of Electricity held in
Marrakesh, Morocco, on 27 and
28 January 2016. The event is co-
organized by the AUE and ONEE,
under the patronage of HM King
Mohammed VI of Morocco. The
conference was attended by a large
number of officials in charge of
the electricity sector in Arab and
foreign countries. The conference
was held under the slogan
“Balances in the Conventional,
New, and Renewable Energy Mix
in Electrical Systems”.
HE Al Naqi participated as
a keynote speaker at a session
entitled “The Status of Electricity
in the Middle East and North
Africa”.
Morocco’s Energy andMinerals
Minister HE Abdul Qader I’marah
inaugurated the conference with
a speech pointing out to the
importance of energy cooperation
among Arab countries, and the
importance of benefiting from
potential integration aspects to
transform all available cooperation
opportunities into real projects
benefiting all Arab countries
especially in transportation and
electrical interconnection sectors.
The
Minister
considered
electrical interconnection and
establishing an Arab market
for electricity among the most
important concerns of the
Arab joint action in the field
of electricity. He referred to a
study entitled “Comprehensive
Arab Interconnection and the
Assessment of Using Natural Gas
in Exporting Electricity” that has
been prepared in line with the Arab
Electricity Ministerial Council’s
5
th
General Conference of the Arab Union of Electricity
Balances in Conventional, New, and
Renewable Energy Mix in Electrical Systems