France and Morocco launched a call for expressions of interest on 16 July, effectively inviting companies to submit proposals for a direct link that would carry renewable electricity generated in Morocco to France, Moroccan news outlet Hespress reported.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced “a call for expressions of interest in an electricity interconnection” at a joint press conference with his Moroccan counterpart, Aziz Akhannouch.

The announcement came at the end of the 15th Morocco–France High-Level Meeting, a periodic gathering of the two governments to sign agreements and advance joint projects. The meeting, the first since 2019, was held in Rabat during Lecornu’s visit on 15 and 16 July.

Interested companies will be asked to propose a route, a technical solution and a financing model. The process does not yet amount to a decision to build the link.

No route agreed

No company has been selected and no target date for the link to enter service has been announced.

Its capacity, cost, timetable and connection points have also not been disclosed. The two governments have not specified the route the link would follow.

Morocco is already connected to Spain by two subsea power cables crossing the Strait of Gibraltar. Commissioned in 1997 and 2006, they have a combined capacity of 1,400 megawatts.

A third Morocco–Spain interconnector was announced in 2019 but has yet to be built. A direct link with France would allow Morocco to sell part of its solar and wind power to another European market.

Two loans for regional rail and water

The meeting also finalised two €100 million loans from the French Development Agency, one for Rabat’s future regional rail network and the other for the water sector.

The regional rail financing had already been signed in February 2026 and announced publicly in the spring. The water agreement extends cooperation launched during Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Morocco in October 2024.

Paris and Rabat also signed agreements covering the Kénitra–Marrakech high-speed rail line, civil aviation, ports, education and research.