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Tunisian prime minister Youssef Chahed has officially commissioned the country’s first large-scale solar park, the 10 MW Tozeur I solar facility. The project is owned by Tunisian state-owned utility Société tunisienne de l’électricité et du gaz (STEG), and is located near Tozeur, in the south of the country. STEG kicked off the tender for the project in 2014. Italian solar developer Ternienergia, won the €12.5 million EPC contract for the project in March 2017. The €16 million project was financed by German development bank KFW, under Tunisia’s Plan Solaire Tunisien (PST) program. KFW provided a €12 million low-interest rate loan for the plant’s construction, and a further €0.5 million for additional services related to the project. A twin project is coming STEG is also currently developing another 10 MW solar park in the area, the Centrale Photovoltaique Tozeur II. The tender for this project was issued by the company in December 2017. Both Tozeur projects are the only large-scale solar plants being developed in the country outside of the government’s tender mechanism, which includes two separate 70 MW tenders for projects up to 10 MW, and a unique tender for 500 MW of larger solar parks. Preliminary results of this tender indicate surprisingly low bids, the lowest coming in at $0.0244/kWh. Projects selected in all of these auctions are expected to sell power to STEG under a long-term PPA. Under its renewable energy strategy, Tunisia aims at achieving 4.7 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2030.

Tunisia’s Ministry of Energy, Mines and Renewable Energies has kicked-off a third tender for the development and construction of several solar power plants not exceeding 10 MW in size. Through this third procurement exercise, the Tunisian government is seeking to build six solar power plants with an installed power capacity of 10 MW each and ten 1 MW small solar parks. The deadline to submit project proposals is November 26 and plants will have to be constructed under the Build Own Operate (BOO) mode. Selected projects will sell electricity to Tunisia’s state-owned utility, Société Tunisienne de l’électricité et du gaz (STEG) under a long-term PPA. The tender is part of a series planned by the Tunisian government, which aims to install around 1 GW of renewable energy capacity in the period 2017-2020. Through a first tender of the same kind, which was launched in May 2017, the Tunisian government contracted seven 10 MW projects from domestic companies and Tunisian-international consortia. Construction the first project started in May. A second tender for another 70 MW of solar was launched last year. In this process, the Tunisian authorities decided on six 10 MW projects proposed by Tunisian and international developers. The ministry is also preparing to tender another 500 MW of solar for larger projects. So far, it has released a list of 16 prequalified developers. The round will facilitate the construction of a 200 MW solar plant in Tataouine, in the Sahara Desert; two 100 MW PV facilities in Kairouan and Gafsa; and two 50 MW solar parks in Sidi Bouzid and Tozeur. Under its renewable energy strategy, Tunisia aims to deploy around 4.7 GW of clean energy capacity by 2030.  

park will certainly be located in Metbassta, Kairouan Governate, in northern Tunisia's inland desert, and also will certainly can generating nearly 230 GWh

with state-owned energy Societe Tunisienne de l'electricite et du gaz (STEG). Tunisia aims to mount 1.25 GW of renewables in 2021-2030 in accordance with a 30%

executives at Snam SpA, plans to build renewable energy plants in Algeria and Tunisia, exporting the energy to Italy via subsea lines. The project has received

has started at Eni's solar plant in Tataouine, southerly Tunisia, following its connection to the national grid. The 10MW plant will supply over 20GWh

to co-finance the building of the 100 MW Kairouan solar energy plant in Tunisia. The new financial aid covers $10 million and one more EUR10 million from the

EUR10m loan package to co-finance a AMEA Power's 100MW solar farm in Kairouan, Tunisia. The project involves the layout, building and construction, and also

an investment decision being made. A similar project is being built by Eni in Tunisia with state-owned oil company Entreprise Tunisienne d’Activités

reward for such investments throughout the Maghreb region. " Algeria, Tunisia as well as Morocco, each have a wealth of solar energy sources as well as

establishes energy projects in Africa with a concentrate on Libya, Algeria, Tunisia as well as Nigeria. At a meeting on January 23, PIB and also the state-owned

actually launched plants in Spain, Portugal, France, South Africa, Mozambique, Tunisia, Colombia and Mexico, among other

monetary close "imminently" on 1.2 GW of wind and solar projects in Egypt, Tunisia, Ivory Coast and also Burkina

construction by 2027, with projects such as the 130-MW Gafsa solar project in Tunisia and 550 MW of storage in Uzbekistan. This expansion reflects the company's

which creates energy projects in Africa with a focus on Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Nigeria, obtained authorisation to set up a solar plant in the Ghadames