UK-Morocco Renewable Energy Link Plan Gets $10.2 Million Boost

  • Company will use the money to survey potential cable route
  • Xlinks Morocco-UK power project to cost as much as £24 billion

Xlinks’s planned power plant in Morocco will consist of wind turbines, solar panels and batteries.

Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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GE Vernova Inc. invested $10.2 million in Xlinks First Ltd., the UK company planning a massive renewable power project in Morocco and a 4,000-kilometer (2,500 miles) undersea cable to deliver the energy to Britain.

The investment helped close the latest funding round for Xlinks First, capping $110 million raised to date, according to Chief Executive Officer James Humfrey. It’s an incremental step for the company as it advances a project it estimates will cost as much as £24 billion ($30.1 billion) to construct.