Tunisia promotes tender for building and construction of 60MWp solar energy plants

• The federal government of Tunisia has introduced a call for tenders for the building of solar power plants with a total ability of 60MWp. According to the North African country Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mines, the solar power stations will be built each with a capacity of in between 1 and also 10 MWp.

Independent power manufacturers (IPP) interested in the project have until the 9th of February following year to send their propositions.

Implementation of the project

After the bidding procedure is over, the chosen financiers will certainly create the projects under the Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) version whereby they will finance, construct, possess, keep and also run the projects for a set duration of 20 years, during which they will certainly offer the electricity produced from the solar power terminals to the Tunisian Electricity and also Gas Company (Steg), in conformity the problems and also procedures set by the federal government for the application of projects, the manufacturing, and also sale of power from renewable energy resources.

When the 20 years' period elapses, the control of the project will be moved to the government of the North African nation.

Tunisia's fourth tender of this kind

This tender is the fourth of its kind introduced by the Tunisian government in the room of 3 years, following the 70 MW tender won in June this year by a loads of nationwide and also foreign firms including the French business Akuo Energy which has actually signed up with pressures with HBG Hedi Bouchammaoui Group Holding as well as Nour Energy to install a 10 MWp solar farm in Gabès in the south-east of the country.

All of these tenders or other projects are a part of the Tunisian federal government's power policy, whose purpose is to raise the share of renewable energies in the electricity mix to 30% by 2030.