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Scatec, Engie and TBEA-AMEA solar projects still overshadowed by government inertia

The investors selected in 2019 to build five large photovoltaic power plants are still waiting to get the final green light from the government. [...] (468 words)

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African Development Bank
Agence française de développement
Akuo Energy
Eco Delta
Engie-Nareva
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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Fédération générale de l'électricité et du gaz
Hichem Mechichi
International Finance Corporation
Kaïs Saïed
Mazarine Energy
Mohamed Bousaïd
Mongi Marzouk
Power
Proparco
Salwa Sghaier
Scatec Solar
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Sofiane Ben Tounes
TBEA-AMEA
TuNur
Union générale tunisienne du travail

EBRD doles out €30m for Scatec's two solar projects

Approximately €15m has been allocated by the bank for each of the two solar power plant projects in the regions of Sidi Bouzid and Tozeur. [...]

TUNISIA Energy Business 21/02/2022

Minister Neila Gonji looks for new lenders to fund major renewable energy projects

Minister of Industry and Energy Neila Gonji is increasing her goals for solar and wind power, with plans to build an additional 1500MW of capacity. She has pitched the project to the Saudi Fund for Development. [...]

TUNISIA Energy Business 21/06/2021

After securing 500 MW solar plans, Tunis is ready for 1200 MW more

After two years of talks, Scatec, Engie and the consortium TBEA-AMEA Power are at last on track to start construction of five solar farms totalling 500 MW, on top of which Mechichi's government wants to already add a further 1200 MW in solar and wind power. [...]

TUNISIA Energy Business 14/06/2021

Employers' body goes back to war over electricity tariffs

With price hikes on the horizon, UTICA wants its members to be able to buy electricity directly from private producers. The energy ministry isn't interested in discussing the politically charged matter. [...]

TUNISIA Energy Business 26/04/2021

Sun finally shines on Engie-Nareva, Scatec and TBEA-AMEA

Tunisia's parliament is expected to soon approve the concession contracts for the construction of five photovoltaic power stations in the south-west of the country worth an estimated $400m. The financial package for the project, which has already got the government green light, has yet to be finalised with international donors. [...]

TUNISIA Business 14/04/2021

Egypt's Elsewedy Electric hooks up with STEG

Elsewedy Electric has been awarded its first contract in Tunisia for the supply, installation, and commissioning of high-voltage lines at a cost of 57m dinars (€17m). The project was ordered by the Société Tunisienne de l'Electricité et du Gaz (STEG). [...]

MOROCCO Energy Business 31/03/2021

Engie deploys Sebastien Arbola to resume talks with Nareva

French giant Engie and Nareva, a subsidiary of Mohammed VI's Al Mada holding company, are expected to relaunch their African renewable energy partnership and find a future at the Safi coal-fired power plant. [...]

Sébastien Arbola, Executive Vice President of Engie.

TUNISIA Infrastructures Business 25/03/2021

TAV Airports escapes financial collapse but heads into political turmoil

Turkey's TAV Airports, which has the operating concession for the Enfidha and Monastir airports, has had several hundred million euros worth of debt cancelled by international institutions and Tunisia but now faces scrutiny by Tunisian deputies. [...]

Enfidha airport seen from the sky, in 2012.

TUNISIA Energy 10/03/2021

ENI, Shell, CNPC, and Kufpec all jump ship as one

With only modest Tunisian reserves to their name and weary of an increasingly difficult political climate, the oil firms have decided to pack their bags and put their assets up for sale. [...]

Mohamed Bousaid, Tunisian trade minister and acting energy minister, must face the likely departures of major companies.

TUNISIA Energy Business 01/10/2020

Salwa Sghaier's solar projects get off to bad start

Tunisia's new energy minister Salwa Sghaier has rather unwittingly launched a new tender for the construction of solar energy plants to provide a total output of 70MW. To revive investors' interest, she may align the approval process with that of concessions. [...]

TUNISIA Energy Business 23/01/2020

Oil junior Mazarine Energy poised to win solar power contracts

Dutch oil junior Mazarine Energy, which is active in oil exploration and production in southern Tunisia, could soon break into [...]

TUNISIA Infrastructures Business 25/07/2019

Scatec takes surprise lead in race for giant solar contract Free

Norway's Scatec Solar should be the major beneficiary of the plan to build five photovoltaic power plants with a combined [...]

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Hichem Mechichi
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