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Siemens Gamesa maintains its investments in the Sahara. The decision comes in response to questions raised by the NGO Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW), an NGO that supports the Polisario Front, during the German group's last general assembly.
Management has even expressed its willingness to conclude other contracts with the Moroccan authorities. «Siemens Energy and Siemens Gamesa will fulfil their obligations under valid contracts in accordance with the law», the board said.
The agitations of Polisario supporters during these meetings are recurrent. In February 2021, the group ruled out any negotiations with the Polisario regarding its investments in Western Sahara, affirming in response to another question from the same NGO that it only has one interlocutor: Morocco.
For the record, in September 2020, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy received an order to supply wind turbines to the 300-megawatt (MW) wind farm project located in Boujdour, Morocco. An investment worth four billion dollars.
The Polisario threatened, in August 2023, to attack employees of foreign companies established in the Sahara, in particular those participating in the implementation of green energy projects. «These investments will bring nothing to these companies. They will lose their investments and risk the lives of their workers», its representative in Europe said in a press release.
He was reacting, thus, to the announcement of July 25 from the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE), relating to the general commercial operation of the Boujdour wind farm with a capacity of 300 MW. A wind project carried out in partnership with the German group Siemens.
