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Sonatrach cannot consider coronavirus as an acceptable basis for Spanish gas buyer Naturgy Energy Group to lower prices and declare force majeure on its imports from Algeria, energy minister Mohamed Arkab told parliament’s finance and budget committee on 17 June. The official Algérie Presse Service quoted Arkab as saying the global health crisis was not a reason to invoke force majeure, as nowhere had the lockdown stopped power stations from operating.

Algeria | Tunisia
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Following concessions on the pricing of Algerian gas taken by Tunisia through the Trans-Mediterranean Gas Pipeline, Sonatrach and Société Tunisienne d’Electricité et de Gaz (Steg) have agreed to renew their offtake agreement through to 2027, with a possible extension of the contract to 2029. Unlike recent agreements with European clients, which have involved lower liftings, Sonatrach on 17 June said the draft agreement anticipated a 20% rise in the contracted volumes to be taken from 2025, “with a view to securing the expected increase in consumption in this strategic market”.

Algeria | Tunisia
Issue 409 - 14 February 2020

Tunisia’s Nawara gas starts up

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The Nawara gas field in southern Tunisia started production on 5 February. Prime Minister Youssef Chahed said it was the country’s largest project with an investment value of 3.5bn dinars ($1.2bn).He said the 2.7mcm/d scheme represented a 50% increase in national gas production, which would reduce Tunisia’s energy deficit by 20% and cut the trade deficit by 7%. “Personally, it was one of the biggest challenges that we have worked on in the last three years,” he said.

Tunisia
Issue 407 - 16 January 2020

Tunisia: More solar projects awarded

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The Ministry of Industry and SMEs has awarded a 100MW solar project in Kairouan to a consortium of TBEA Xinjiang New Energy Company and AMEA Power. The project forms part of an international tender launched by the ministry in 2018, which has seen 500MW of solar projects awarded.

Tunisia
Issue 406 - 19 December 2019

Tunisia: Eni inaugurates solar plant

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Eni Tunisia inaugurated a new 5MWp off-grid solar PV plant at the Adam oil concession in Tataouine governorate on 11 December. The plant, built under a cooperation agreement with Entreprise Tunisienne d’Activités Pétrolières, includes a 2.2MWp/1.5MWh storage battery system that will facilitate integration with existing gas turbines. Work is also under way under the cooperation agreement to build a 10MWp PV plant in Tataouine city, which will supply the grid.

Tunisia
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Scatec Solar announced on 17 December the award of two 60MW solar projects at Tozeur and Sidi Bouzid and a 240MW project at Tataouine. Scatec will be the lead equity investor and engineering, procurement and construction contractor, and will provide operation, maintenance and asset management services. Power will be sold to Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du Gaz under a 20-year power purchase agreement. The projects are part of a 500MW solar tender launched in May 2018 by the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Renewable Energy.

Tunisia
Issue 405 - 05 December 2019

Tunisia: New boss for Steg ER

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In a continuing reshuffle of parastatal heads and other senior posts by the outgoing prime minister, Youssef Chahed, his Tahya Tounès party ally Leila Ouled Ali Bahri is to become head of Steg Energies Renouvelables (ER), the renewables affiliate of state utility Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du Gaz. Created in 2010 to promote solar projects, Steg ER has public and a few private sector shareholders, not all of whom are said to be happy with Chahed’s last-minute ‘political’ appointment.

Tunisia
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The African Development Bank board approved on 9 October €138m ($155m) of financing to Société Tunisienne d’Electricité et Gaz (Steg) for a transmission project. The package includes a €108m loan from the AfDB and €30m from the Fund for Agriculture in Africa. The €290m project is also being funded by the Islamic Development Bank (€121m) and Steg (€31m). The project will fund the purchase of high and medium-voltage transformers and construction of around 250km of transmission lines to support the development of renewable power projects in the country.

Tunisia
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Former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s death on 19 September did not grip the majority of Tunisians as much as the presidential election earlier that week, which has left two populist outsiders competing to replace the late Béji Caïd Essebsi in a second round of voting, expected in October. Ben Ali seized power in November 1987 from president-for-life Habib Bourguiba, a genuine giant of post-colonial politics who had become incapable of ruling.

Tunisia
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Tunisia is pushing forward with its multi-part renewables procurement strategy. On 20 July, shortlisted companies submitted bids in the largest of its ongoing bid rounds for 500MW of solar and 200MW of wind. On 11 July, the Ministry of Industry and Small and Medium Enterprises issued a tender for 70MW of solar photovoltaic power under a build-own-operate framework. It has invited bids by 26 November for the construction of six 10MW and ten 1MW solar plants in the third round of small-scale solar procurement.

Tunisia
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is has invited expressions of interest from consultants to carry out environmental and social impact assessments (ESIAs) for two large wind power projects in Tunisia. The EBRD has been providing technical support to the Ministry of Industry and Small and Mid-Size Enterprises in Tunisia for the development of renewable energy projects.

Tunisia
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Eni has begun the construction of a 5MW solar photovoltaic plant at the Adam oil concession in the Tataouine governorate. The energy produced will be used on site, reducing gas consumption and avoiding around 6.500 t/yr of CO2 equivalent emissions. The solar plant is expected to be completed by the end of 2019 as part of a cooperation agreement with Entreprise Tunisienne d’Activités Pétrolières. The project aims to establish a hybrid electricity production system with battery storage devices to integrate with the existing turbines.

Tunisia
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s announcement that he will not seek a fifth term as Algerian president has once again raised questions of gerontocracy and failed governance in Africa. Tunisian head of state Béji Caïd Essebsi benefits from a degree of popular legitimacy but many citizens are concerned that the spry ‘BCE’ at 92 is too old to stand again when presidential elections are held in December. Before that, his fractured Nidaa Tounès (NT) will come under a strong challenge from the Islamist Ennahda party, now the two major parties’ alliance has broken down, and from other rivals, when parliamentary elections are held in October.

Tunisia
Issue 387 - 28 February 2019

Tunisia: Steg confronts liquidity crisis

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Société Tunisienne d’Electricité et du Gaz (Steg) is determined to retain its central role in power generation despite its financial weakness and government efforts to promote independent solar projects and the liberalisation of the sector. It is seeking a capital injection and is looking at ways of increasing revenue to resolve a severe liquidity crisis.

Tunisia
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Tunisia’s Ministry of Industry and Small and Medium Enterprises has awarded licences to four onshore projects totalling 120MW under its wind energy procurement programme. The projects represent a combined investment of TND400m ($134.5m), according to Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP). The successful bidders will build wind farms of 30MW each.

Tunisia