Image: Tunisian Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy
The Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy of Tunisia, Fatima al-Thabat Shibb, has approved four solar projects with a combined capacity of 500 MW.
The QAIR International, based in France, will build a 100 MW facility in the Kasr region of the Province Geata and a 200 MW project in the Al-Khabna region of Sidi Bouzid Governorate. The French developer Voltalia will build a 100 MW Zonneboerderij in the province of Gabès. A consortium of Norwegian Scatec and the Japanese Aeolus, a unit of Toyota Tsusho, will develop a 100 MW PV factory near Mazouna in Sidi Bouzid -Gouvernement.
“These projects are expected to come into effect from 2027 and will be able to produce around 1,100 GWh per year, equal to 5% of national electricity production and an economy of approximately 250 thousand tons of natural gas, worth around $ 125 million per year,” the ministry said in a statement.
The projects were selected under a tender of 1.7 GW renewable energy. The ministry said that the lowest rate was $ 0.03183/kWh.
Tunisia promotes the solar scale on solar energy through a series of tenders, including the latest purchasing round launched in January 2023. It completed a 500 MW of solar tendency earlier in December 2019.
In October 2024, Tunisia launched a new tender for 200 MW large-scale solar sun, with submissions on January 15, 2025.
According to the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena), the total solar capacity of Tunisia reached 506 MW towards the end of 2023 towards the end of 2023.
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