AMEA Power to break ground on 100-MW solar project in Tunisia in H1 2023
- Dubai-based AMEA Power LLC will start the building of a 100-MW solar project in Tunisia in the first half of 2023 in the middle of plans for more renewable energy financial investments in the North African nation, the firm's chairman Hussain Al Nowais told Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP).
The solar park will certainly be located in Metbassta, Kairouan Governate, in northern Tunisia's inland desert, and also will certainly can generating nearly 230 GWh annually, sufficient to power around 42,878 regional households. It is anticipated to get to commercial operation in the first half of 2024, according to the company's website.
AMEA Power in consortium with TBEA Xinjiang New Energy Co., Ltd won the project in 2019 in an international tender launched by the Ministry of Industry and also SMEs in Tunisia that awarded an overall of 500 MW of solar capacity.
The building and construction of the solar plant in Metbassta will certainly set you back in between USD 120 million and also USD 140 million (EUR 132.96 m).
Most just recently, AMEA Power reached the financial close for a gigawatt of wind and solar projects in Egypt standing for an investment of USD 1.1 billion as well as inked a framework agreement with the city government to create a 1-GW green hydrogen project in Suez Governorate for the manufacturing as well as export of green ammonia.