Tunisia’s Ministry of Trade, Mines and Power has kicked off a brand new procurement train for large-scale photo voltaic.


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Tunisia’s Ministry of Trade, Mines and Power has launched a young for the development of a number of large-scale PV tasks with a mixed capability of 200 MW.

The chosen unbiased energy producers (IPPs) will promote electrical energy to Société tunisienne de l’électricité et du gaz (STEG), the Tunisian state-owned grid operator, underneath long-term energy buy agreements. builders have till Jan. 15 to submit their challenge proposals.

Tunisia is supporting utility-scale photo voltaic by way of a collection of tenders, the most recent of which was launched in January 2023. It additionally finalized a 500 MW photo voltaic tender in December 2019.

The nation’s cumulative put in PV capability stood at simply 506 MW by the top of 2023, in response to the Worldwide Renewable Power Company (IRENA). Final yr, it deployed round 309 MW of recent PV capability.

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