In 2010 the Moroccan state bought over 3000 kilometers of collective land near the city of Ouarzazate to install the largest solar energy plant in the World, Noor. Since 2010 the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (MASEN) built four plants in the same region, utilizing different technologies and implicating global capital, and foreign expertise. During the first phases of construction MASEN proudly employed between 2000 and 5000 people from neighboring villages and from the city of Ouarzazate. In its managing teams’ narratives, MASEN is changing not only the ecological landscape but also the social environment by engaging in development projects, employment, infrastructure, and delivering education and health care services. This paper, however, narrates the story of MASEN from the lens of the lives entangled with it. Those living near the extraction zone, the groups whose land was privatized, the individuals searching for employment, and those targeted by MASEN’s development projects. My goal is to excavate the emotional, raced, classed and gendered layers of the implication of the local population with renewable energy by attending to the affective dimensions of their daily dwelling and struggles in and around the extraction zone. I will use Feminist Affect Theory to account for the dimensions that rarely make it to sociological analyses of renewable energy and bring time and temporality to the center of my analysis.