Mohammedia – Morocco continues to feature prominently in Africa’s off-grid renewable energy landscape, with new figures from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) showing sustained deployment across household, agricultural, and public-use technologies, supported by measurable installed capacity and population coverage.
Data from IRENA’s Off-grid Renewable Energy Statistics 2025 indicate that Morocco’s off-grid solar capacity linked to solar lights and solar home systems stood at 10.218 megawatts in 2024, unchanged since 2019 but more than double the 4.581 megawatts recorded between 2015 and 2018.
The increase was consolidated in 2019 and has since been maintained, reflecting continuity in off-grid solar deployment rather than short-term pilot expansion.
Higher-capacity solar home systems also followed the same trajectory. Capacity for solar home systems above 50 watts reached 10.218 megawatts in 2024, compared with 4.581 megawatts between 2015 and 2018.
Over the same period, the number of people using solar home systems above 50 watts rose from 294,000 to 383,000, a level that has remained stable since 2019.
Solar mini-grids remain marginal in capacity terms. Morocco recorded 0.008 megawatts of solar mini-grid capacity from 2019 through 2024, with no population connected to Tier 2 or higher solar mini-grids during that period, according to IRENA’s data.
Productive and public-use applications form a significant component of Morocco’s off-grid solar profile.
Total solar pumping capacity increased from 0.823 megawatts in 2015 to 1.574 megawatts by 2022, where it remained through 2024.
Of this total, solar pumps used in agriculture accounted for 0.607 megawatts, while solar pumps serving public water supply represented 0.058 megawatts.
Other off-grid solar photovoltaic installations showed higher capacity levels earlier in the period before stabilising. Installed capacity peaked at 16.927 megawatts in 2017 and 2018, before declining to 11.198 megawatts from 2021 through 2024.
The entirety of this capacity was recorded under unspecified off-grid solar photovoltaic uses.
Clean cooking solutions also appear in the dataset. Solar cooker capacity stood at 0.093 megawatts throughout the 2015–2024 period, serving an estimated 3,000 people each year.
Beyond solar, Morocco recorded 5.000 megawatts of off-grid wind energy capacity consistently across the entire period covered by the dataset.
The figures show Morocco appearing across a broad range of off-grid renewable technologies tracked by IRENA, spanning household energy access, agricultural use, public water services, and clean cooking, with deployments measured both in installed capacity and population served.
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