Tunisia invites bids for six solar plants
Tunisia, Tunis: Tunisia’s Ministry of Energy invites developers to submit proposals to develop six PV plants under the independent power producer model (IPP).
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Tunisia, Tunis: Tunisia’s Ministry of Energy invites developers to submit proposals to develop six PV plants under the independent power producer model (IPP).
Developers have been invited to submit proposals by 25 March for the PV plants, which will each have a capacity of 10 MW. The tender also includes 10 solar arrays, each with a capacity of up to 1 MW.
The offtaker for the PV plants will be state utility Tunisian Electricity & Gas Company (STEG), which will sign 20-year power purchase agreements with the selected developers.
Norway’s Scatec was awarded contracts to develop three PV solar projects with a total capacity of 360 MW under the IPP renewables programme.
A consortium of China’s TBEA Xinjiang Sunoasis Company and UAE-based Amea Power was awarded the contract to develop the 100 MW Project C for a tariff of $3.44 c/kWh. A consortium of France’s Engie and Morocco’s Nareva Renouvelables was awarded a contract to develop the 100 MW Project D for a tariff of $2.8 c/kWh.
The selected developers will sign power purchase agreements with state energy company STEG for a concession period of 20 years under a build-own-operate model.
Scatec will be the lead equity investor in the projects and will also provide the main engineering, procurement and construction series.
The solar projects are part of Tunisia’s plans to install 4.7 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2030, which is forecasted to account for 30 % of the total installed capacity. The country’s power sector is currently dominated by gas-fired power plants, which account for about 97 % of total electricity production.
Source: Energy & Utilities