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Both the EU Court of
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announced that EEM had selected it to supply 40 onshore wind turbines to power a 200MW extension to the
Aftissat onshore wind farm. The Cypress turbines will be moderated at 5.0MW, and will have rotors with a 158 metres (518 ft) diameter. The project was expected to come into operation in 2023.
302:. It has 56 Siemens wind turbines with nominal power of 3.6MW, and delivers 201.6MW, or 1,000GWh per year. Windhoist was responsible for erecting the turbines. The project cost was estimated as $ 391 million. The project included construction of the 250 kilometres (160 mi) 400kV power line from
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Commercial operations began in
October 2018. The wind farm delivers energy over the national VHV/HV network to large industrial consumers. Customers mentioned in a December 2016 statement by Nareva included LafargeHolcim Maroc, OCP, Ciments du Maroc, Sonasid, Managem, la Snep and Air Liquide Maroc.
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Avtisat has one fish market, 30 stores for fish trading and 204 stores for sailors, as well as a box store and an engine repair workshop. The village has 635 boats for traditional fishing.
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216:6.8/km (18/sq mi)
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200:Population
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80:14°40′59″W
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350:Citations
294:Wind farm
249:coast in
779:Aftissat
728:Boujdour
714:Boujdour
658:, NAREVA
304:Laayoune
255:Boujdour
247:Atlantic
241:Location
223:Aftissat
177:Province
58:Aftissat
23:Aftissat
763:Lemseid
758:Jraifia
493:Sources
269:Origins
263:Jraifia
231:أفتيسات
33:Village
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799:(cape)
308:Dakhla
300:Nareva
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227:Arabic
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