GDF is go for 300MW Moroccan wind

Tarfaya – which GDF is billing as the largest wind project in Africa – reachedfinancial close at the end of 2012, it says.

The wind farm will sell its power to Morocco’s state utility ONEE under a20-year deal, and will account for 40% of the North African nation's windcapacity, adds GDF.

It expects full operations at the plant, on a coastal site in the southern Moroccan desert, at theend of 2014.