Morocco Public Lighting Transformation Program

The World Bank assisted Morocco in improving its energy efficiency, as reflected in the 2014-2017 World Bank Country Partnership Strategy (CPS). The CPS identifies enhancing energy efficiency in Morocco as a strategic objective to ensure that scarce resources are invested more sustainably in the energy sector. This objective is in line with both reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity. The Morocco City Energy Efficiency Technical Assistance assists cities in building local capacity for developing and implementing transformative energy efficiency investments.   The Morocco Public Lighting Transformation Program (the Program) is aimed at encouraging the application of energy efficient practices to public lighting in Morocco, thereby contributing to the shift toward inclusive green growth.

The main objectives of the assignment were to assist the Government of Morocco in designing a sustainable Morocco Public Lighting Transformation Program using a public-private partnership (PPP) approach, such as the ESCO business model.   The main tasks of the assignment were the following:

• Review the current public-lighting sector. Econoler reviewed, analyzed and assessed the national public lighting market size, energy demand, the framework conditions for public lighting projects and implementation models thereof.  
• Design the Morocco Efficient Public Lighting Program. As part of this task, Econoler developed a comprehensive operational package covering the institutional, legal, financial and technical aspects of the Program; this package will be used to implement the Program at both the national and local levels.
• Develop a results-oriented funding scheme for IFI funding. Econoler provided to the World Bank a complete project concept package containing comprehensive economic and financial analyses, and a business plan for the results-oriented financing of the Program.
• Implement outreach activities. As part of this task, Econoler worked with the Government of Morocco to disseminate global, regional and national best practices and lessons learned in the course of this project by holding several workshops with the relevant stakeholders at different stages of the project to provide relevant knowledge and capacity-building.

  Upon completion of this assignment, Econoler had designed a project implementation model in support of the energy efficiency transformation of the Morocco public lighting sector based on Morocco’s current context and international best practices.