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Masen's big solar farm programme risks blowing a fuse

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Masen CEO Mustapha Bakkoury.
Masen CEO Mustapha Bakkoury. © Dirk Waem/Belga/MaxPPP

Renewable energy agency Masen, which plans to use private investment to develop a number of PV power stations, is having to deal with ill will on the part of national electricity utility ONEE at a time when its chairman Mustapha Bakkoury is out of favour politically.

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