Sila Atlantik is a development-stage, generation-export HVDC interconnector project that aims to transmit utility-scale renewable electricity from large solar and wind installations in Morocco to markets in Germany. The scheme is designed as an undersea high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmis...
By 10 February 2026, Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s largest electricity consumer, had written to the German State Secretary indicating that large quantities of Moroccan solar and wind power delivered via Sila Atlantik would be an attractive supply option and stating its interest in using the project’s electricity as part of its plan to run entirely on renewable energy by 2038.
On 9 February 2026, Germany’s State Secretary for Economic Affairs, Frank Wetzel, sent a letter on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy to Morocco’s Minister of Investment, Karim Zidane, formally expressing the German government’s interest in the Sila Atlantik project, welcoming the initiative, and signalling willingness to continue discussions under the Moroccan‑German Energy Partnership framework.
By 22 September 2025, Xlinks, via its subsidiary Xlinks Germany GmbH, had publicly outlined the Sila Atlantik project as a 4,800 km HVDC submarine cable link from Moroccan solar and wind complexes to Germany, with 3.6 GW transmission capacity, 26 TWh per year of exports by around 2034, and backing from German utilities E.ON and Uniper for a planned €30–40 billion investment.
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On 5 May 2025, the German Patent and Trademark Office approved and registered the Sila Atlantik trademark, giving the Morocco–Germany 4,800 km HVDC interconnector project legally protected branding in Germany.
On 31 January 2025, the Sila Atlantik project team filed a trademark application for the name "Sila Atlantik" with the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), formalising the project’s branding for the planned Morocco–Germany HVDC interconnector.
A dedicated project company, Morocco German Green Electricity Export, was created in Morocco in late December 2024, backed by Xlinks Germany and represented by Christopher Burghardt. The new entity, established with share capital of 300,000 dirhams, is intended to develop, construct and manage energy infrastructure for Sila Atlantik, including the commercialisation and import–export management of electricity flows between Morocco and Germany.
By 2024, the planned Sila Atlantik HVDC links between Morocco and Germany were included in ENTSO‑E’s Ten‑Year Network Development Plan (TYNDP), marking the project’s transmission connections as being considered at an exploratory stage within European electricity network planning and reflecting their potential to carry up to 3.6 GW over ~4,800 km of subsea cable and enable large-scale renewable power exports from Morocco to Germany.
In 2022, the foreign ministers of Germany and Morocco signed a joint declaration that is later cited by Sila Atlantik’s promoters as a political basis for the project, with the Morocco–Germany power link described as being built on this bilateral declaration alongside cooperation within the Climate Club and its subsequent reflection in the 2024 TYNDP.
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