News - Tunisia

		North African and Middle East Countries Poised to Upgrade Concentrated Solar Power Use with AfDB, World Bank, and CIF Support
		2013/04/11 The workshop presented an important opportunity for the five countries to discuss ways to deepen their effective use of CSP as a means to transform their national and regional energy paths.

		Tunisia Ready to Join Desertec
		2012/11/17 DESERTEC demonstrates a way to provide climate protection, energy security and development by generating sustainable power from the sites where renewable sources of energy are at their most abundant.

		Solar Power Initiative Could Make Tunisia Power Source for Europe
		2012/10/27 TuNur, a joint-venture company between NurEnergie, a solar power plant developer based in England, and a collection of Tunisian investors, has seized upon the unmet export market of solar energy from Tunisia to Europe.

		MENA Concentrating Solar Power Scale-Up Initiative
		2012/06/28 Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia have joined together to expedite the deployment of concentrated solar power (CSP) and exploit the region's vast solar energy resources.

		TunNur wants to make Tunisia major CSP exporter
		2012/06/26 Tunisian Sahara will allow Tunisia to be the largest exporter of concentrating solar power in the world by 2016.

		A 2,000 MW concentrated solar power plant proposed for Tunisia
		2012/04/26 British investors have proposed the construction of this solar energy facility in Rjim Maaatoug in southwest Tunisia, which will be directly connected to the European electric grid.

		Tunisia to build concentrated solar power plant
		2012/04/12 Tunisia to build 2,000 megawatts concentrating solar thermal power station. British investors have proposed the construction of a 2,000- megawatt solar energy station in Rjim Maaatoug.

		Tunisian concentrated solar power project
		2012/02/03 The DESERTEC Foundation is endorsing TuNur and believes that it can serve as a blueprint for the development of further wind and solar projects in the Sahara.

		Tunisia Plans to Spend $2 Billion to Sell Concentrated Solar Power in Europe
		2011/07/11 Tunisia plans to invest $2 billion in solar projects to generate power for Europe, the minister of planning and international cooperation said.

		Nur Energie's Solar Export Project From Tunisia to Europe Achieves Major Milestone
		2011/06/02 Solar project developer Nur Energie Ltd. announced the acceptance of the technical terms for the connection of its "TuNur" utility-scale solar export project from Tunisia into the Italian power network.

		Japan grants Tunisia 50-mln-dinar loan for concentrated solar energy plant
		2011/05/05 This is a contribution to the achievement of the first stage of the solar thermal power plant in the El Borma region, Tunisia's far south.

		Desertec gets boots in Tunisia
		2011/04/15 Representatives of the Desertec project, an industrial initiative that plans to build giant solar and wind power plants in North Africa, last week met with officials from the interim Tunisian government.

		Tunisia-Japan sign MOU in Concentrating Solar Power
		2010/12/14 Tunisia and Japan penned, on Saturday, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU ) for the construction of a 5 Megawatt concentrated solar energy plant connected to a 40 Megawatt-combined cycle power plant.

		Mitsui Engineering Plans Tunisia Concentrating Solar Power
		2010/12/10 Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co plans to build a concentrated solar energy plant in Tunisia, joining a global race to develop clean energy in the deserts of North Africa.