A large share of the self-generation plants connected at medium voltage in Morocco are set to zero export. As soon as site consumption drops, the inverters clip and the energy is simply not produced.
What is at stake
Clipped energy appears on no bill and in no report: it never existed. That is what makes it invisible — and why nobody puts a figure on it, even though it happens every weekend, every line stoppage and every holiday period.
Law 82-21 opens the sale of the surplus to the network operator, within a limit of 20 % of annual production.
The volume actually clipped over twelve months, hour by hour, by overlaying your load curve and your production curve.
Clipping comes from an inverter setting and a protection chain. Lifting it means reworking both, and justifying it.
Overlaying the two curves also brings out the contracted capacity overruns and the cos φ penalty. That is often the fastest gain.
The engagement
The regime that applies is assessed by the administration and the network operator on the full file.
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Send us twelve months of load curve and the characteristics of your plant. We will tell you what clipping actually costs you.