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Publication date: 2017, July
Author: IFC
Description: Tunisia intends to develop RE, in particular wind and PV in order to reach the goal of an integration rate of RE: 12% by 2020 and 30% by 2030 (of total TWh produced).
Publication date: 2017, July
Author: BENNANI & ASSOCIES
Description: The history of regulatory framework for the renewables sector in Tunisia dates to the creation of the country’s national electric company, La Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du Gaz (STEG), by decree law in 1962, and later to the creation of L’Agence Nationale pour la Maîtrise de l’Energie (ANME) in 1985.
Publication date: 2017, April
Author: EIU
Description: Tunisia will continue to face social and economic challenges throughout theforecast period. This, coupled with a fragmented political landscape, will seecoalition governments periodically break up and re-form.
Publication date: 2016, November
Author: RES4MED
Description: Tunisia is a country of North Africa, sharing 965 kilometers of boundaries with Algeria to the west, 459 kilometers with Libya on the southeast and a border with the Mediterranean Sea on the north and the east. The Tunisian capital, Tunis, is located in the north-east of the country. The total area of the country is about 164,000 kilometers, with 50% of the land used for agriculture (8.7 millions of hectares). The Sahara desert represents more than 30% of the country, while the remaining lands are composed of mountains and plains with fertile soil. In 2015, the population of Tunisia reached 11,107,800, following an annual growth rate of 1%. About 63% of the population lives in urban settlements. The proportion of men and women in Tunisia is stable and balanced, but the young generation (between 0-14years old) represents only 23% of the overall population.
Publication date: 2016, October
Author: KAS
Description: This article aims at highlighting development opportunities for renewable energies (RE) in Tunisia. It covers five RE sectors and their utilization possibilities: (1) overview about the situation and RE utilization perspectives across the world; (2) estimate of RE national potential; (3) evaluation of possibilities to substitute conventional energies by RE in Tunisia for different utilization areas; (4) review of the regulatory and institutional framework of RE in Tunisia, and (5) conditions for the success of an RE development policy.
Publication date: 2016
Author: ENEL
Description: Tunisia Renewable energy Framework - An IPP standpoint
Publication date: 2015, May
Author: UNDP / WB
Description: The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the author(s) and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, or its affiliated organizations, or to members of its Board of Executive Directors or the countries they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this publication and accepts no responsibility whatsoever for any consequence of their use.
Publication date: 2015, May
Author: Tunisia Gov
Description: Law n° 2015-12 dated 11 May 2015 relating to the electricity generation from renewable energies.
Publication date: 2014, December
Author: UNDP / gef
Description: In support of the Tunisian Solar Plan, this report sets out the results of a modelling analysis of the costeffectiveness of public derisking measures to promote private sector investment in large-scale wind energy and solar photovoltaic energy (solar PV) in Tunisia. The modelling performs a detailed quantification of the financing costs and risk environment for wind energy and solar PV in Tunisia today.
Publication date: 2014, January
Author: EU
Description: Content:
Publication date: 2013, May
Author: GSE
Description: The Tunisian energy mix is mainly based on traditional fossil sources, as for the most of MENA Countries. Tunisia produced an average of 68.3 thousand barrels of crude oil per day in 2012. The total primary energy supply in 2009 was 9 200 ktoe, with natural gas and oil accounting, respectively, 46% and about 40% of the total.
Publication date: 2013
Author: NRS-EVS
Description: Energy transition in Arab countries is usually addressed as an economic and technological issue. This analysis of Tunisian policies on renewable energy argues that it must be understood from a political and geographical perspective. Energy policy in Tunisia is dominated by STEG, the national utility for electricity and gas, which has held a monopoly since independence and enjoys strong historical legitimacy for its achievements.
Publication date: 2013
Author: RCREEEE
Description: Tunisia does not have a policy of providing financial guarantees to private investors to ensure payment under power purchase agreements. According to tax legislations, all RE equipment and components that do not have locally manufactured substitutes are fully-exempted from customs import duty and internal taxes.
Publication date: 2012, December
Author: GIZ / GTZ
Description: According to the Tunisian Solar Plan and other sources, renewable energy (RE) and energy efficiency increases in Tunisia will generate additional employment for between 7,000 and 20,000 people until the year 2030. Total investment will be TND 1 8.28 billion on renewable energy and TND 1.5 billion on energy efficiency measures. Total RE capacity installed for electricity generation will be 4,045 MW and additional capacity from solar water heaters will be 700 MW. The total energy savings by 2030 will be 120,000 GWh.
Publication date: 2012, September
Author: Global Data
Description: Solar and wind power generation have substantial potential in the country. The north of the country faces the Mediterranean Sea, and receives high wind velocities favoring wind power generation. The country’s first wind farm has already been generating power here since 2000, and more are expected to follow. High solar irradiance in the country, because of its tropical location, also favors solar power development. A number of solar power facilities are planned as part of Tunisia’s Solar Power Plan. These projects are expected to increase the share of renewable power in the country. Another notable future energy source in Tunisia is nuclear power; the country has plans to have built its first nuclear plant by 2020.
Publication date: 2009, June
Author: STEG
Description: Origins of the Program:
1962: Creation of Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du Gaz (STEG);
1973 – 1976: Technico-economic Studies advocating low cost technique of three phases/mono phase MALT.
Publication date: 2009, April
Author: AfDB
Description: The Electricity Distribution Networks Rehabilitation and Restructuring Project is an energy-efficiency project aimed especially at improving service quality, preserving the environment, cutting costs and ensuring the safety of workers and third parties. It covers the whole country. The main activities of the project area are industry, tourism, handicrafts, trading and services. The overall project cost is estimated at TND 111.66 million (UA 52.41 million), net of taxes.
Publication date: 2004, February
Author: EMSB
Description: The Government of Tunisia has strongly supported rural electrification since the early 1970s. Although the program has done many things right to accomplish the country’s goal of universal electricity access, one unique feature of the program has been the extensive consultation with other agencies and reliance on funds from rural development programs. The country’s leaders understood from the start of the program that electricity by itself will not have the development impact of a program that is integrated into a broader strategy of rural development.
Publication date: 1996, August
Author: AfDB
Description: The rural electrification project (Electricity IV), is part of a series of actions launched in 1976 by the Tunisian Government and STEG; on the basis of an agreement between the two parties, the Government included in its successive development prograrnmes (Vth and VIth Plans), as a priority, the integrated electrification of the country.
Publication date: 1991, December
Author: AfDB
Description: The rural electrification project in'the Medenine, Gabès, Gafsa and Tozeur Governorates is in keeping with the social and land use planning policy of the Tunisian Government. Rural electrification is indeed one of the priorities of the 5th national development plan whose overriding objective is the improvement of the people's living conditions through the attainment of food self-sufficiency, job creation in the industrial sector and the availability of electricity in the rural areas. The Tunisian authorities meant thereby to highlight their resolve to consolidate the favourable trends of the economy and ensure a fair geographic and social distribution of the fruits of growth.
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