Solar Public Lighting Solutions by Sector, Morocco

Solar public lighting in Morocco is sized on the month of December (2.58 kWh/m²/day in Tanger, 2.99 in Casablanca, 3.46 in Marrakech, 3.97 in Laâyoune — PVGIS-SARAH2 2005-2020, JRC), on an NM EN 13201 lighting class and on an autonomy expressed in Wh, not in marketing watts. LALOGO publishes here, sector by sector, the method we apply to every quotation: who buys, how the class, pole height and spacing are chosen, which LS models fit, which documents go into the tender specification and how the purchase runs — a call for tenders on marchespublics.gov.ma for a commune, a developer or residents' association for an estate, the operator for a farm.

Here we use the vocabulary of tender notices — 'solar public lighting', 'supply and installation of solar street lights', 'solar luminaires', 'solar kits', and on marchespublics.gov.ma the French originals 'éclairage public solaire' and 'candélabre solaire' — so that each sector finds on these pages the terms of its own specification.

Two rules apply to every sector. The pole is Moroccan-made (25 % safeguard duty on imported poles, HS 7308.90.10); the customs classification of the luminaire is confirmed by our forwarder. And the stated autonomy is always 'up to 12 h per night, 3–5 days of reserve at the default profile', because it depends on irradiation (sized on December) and on the dimming profile.