Morocco, which has no conventional energy resources, depends entirely on the international primary energy market to satisfy its growing demand due to its economic growth and demographic progression. The country imports the majority of its energy source supply. Morocco has implemented an important energy strategy that supports the country's transition to renewable energy and energy efficiency that generalizes across all consumer sectors of the economy (housing, transport, industry). To fulfill this energy transition, the liberalization of renewable energy market was adopted and financial mechanisms have been created to stimulate private sector involvement and to facilitate the implementation of the public-private partnership. The government and public institutions that were created to accompany Morocco's energy vision have committed to drive the development of projects in the priority areas of renewable energy and energy efficiency, but the country still needs to deal with many barriers related to the policy, financial, and technical frameworks.

The Moroccan energy strategy has set new targets of reaching 52% of installed renewable energy capacity by 2030, through the development of renewable energy, including solar and wind energy. The massive use of renewables leads the country to deal with its intermittency and improve its integration in the grid. The offset between wind farms generation in different regions is essential for quantifying the reduction of intermittency when we chose wind farms sites. This offset, the smoothing effect, is analyzed deeply in this article to evaluate different compensation zones. Six wind farms with wind power variability and their potential impact on the capacity reserve are presented. The site's power was generated from reel hourly data during 12 months. Results show that energy fluctuation depends on typical wind regimes and the capacity of farms. North wind farms (280 MW) produce 50% of the maximum during 43% of time and south wind farms produce it only 17% of time. The first farm's power consistently spreads more than south farms, but also more smoothed. The average intermittency reduced as farm capacity increased due to the turbine smoothing effect and the reserve requirements increased on average. The behavior of south wind farms is more correlated, then the backup needed will be less.

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