(MENAFN- Morocco World News) A technical and economic feasibility study of the interconnection project between Morocco and Portugal will be officially launched on Wednesday 8 June in Lisbon, Ministry of Energy, Mining, water and the Environment announced in a statement.

The study, which will be officially launched by Moroccan Minister of Energy, Mining, Water and the Environment, Abdelkader Amara, and Portuguese Economy Minister, Luis Miguel Morais Leitao, reflects the two countries’ firm belief in the importance of the first interconnection for the development of economic relations, the statement said.

The launch of the study was decided following the signing of a protocol agreement on the interconnection between the two countries at the 12th Moroccan-Portuguese High Level Meeting, chaired by the heads of the two governments on April 20, 2015. The Meeting was also an opportunity to set up a roadmap aiming at the implementation of the power interconnection project, the statement added.