Does Tunisia have a solar power plant?

First utility-scale photovoltaic plant (10 MW, in Tozeur) was commissioned in 2019 on German money. Tunisia aims to generate 30% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030. The country currently gets only 3% to 6% of its electricity from renewable sources, mostly from wind and hydro. Solar energy capacity is at 35 megawatts (MW).

Who produces electricity in Tunisia?

State power utility company STEG controls 92.1% of the country’s installed power production capacity and produces 83.5% of the electricity. The remainder is imported from Algeria and Libya as well as produced by Tunisia’s only independent power producer (IPP) Carthage Power Company (CPC), a 471-MW combined-cycle power plant.

What is solar water heating in Tunisia?

Figure 26. Sources: ANME (2019). The solar water heating (SWH) sector in Tunisia was initiated in the 1980s through the creation, in 1982, of the first manufacturing unit for solar water heaters and the establishment of a specific consumer credit system.

How many solar collectors are installed in Tunisia?

From the commercialisation of SWH systems in 1982 until the end of 2018, the cumulative total area of solar collectors installed in Tunisia is estimated at 1 040 000 m2, as shown in Figure 28.