Algeria's 1-GW solar project to produce very first power at end-2023

• The initial electrical power from Algeria's 1-GW Solar 1,000 scheme is expected to be produced at the end of 2023, the director-general of Shaems, the state-owned business overseeing the large-scale project, said on Sunday.

A 30-MW solar park that is to be built in Beni Ounif in the Bechar district as part of the 1-GW initiave could begin generating power at the end of next year or the beginning of 2024 at the most up to date, Ismail Mougari told state-owned news agency Algeria Press Service.

The clean power created by the Beni Ounif solar farm will be sold exclusively as well as completely to state-owned electrical power and also gas representative Sonelgaz for a duration of 25 years, Mougari claimed.

The call for tenders for the deployment of 1 GW of solar photovoltaic or pv (PV) capacity throughout Algeria opened in December. The target date for submitting proposals was set for June 15 but was once again prolonged following a request by neighborhood and global capitalists who need more time to perform in-depth economic as well as technical researches.

In the public auction, the state will certainly allocate the total capacity in great deals of between 50 MW and also 300 MW. As several as 11 sites have actually already been selected for the solar plants.

The ambitious scheme sustains Algeria's renewable resource programme aimed at the setup of about 15 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2035.