A total of three per cent of the electricity is from renewable energy in Tunisia, President of Tunisian Association of Wind Energy (ATEE) Nafaa Bakari said Thursday at an international forum on renewable energy, energy efficiency and investment in energy infrastructure.
Bakari said that Tunisia was able to make the first steps toward energy transition in a carbon-free economy voicing hope to reach 20 per cent by 2020 and 22 percent per cent by2030.
Since 2017, a series of international tenders were launched for the achievement of major energy projects by the production of 1,000 megawatts from renewable energy, including 500 megawatts from solar photovoltaic energy and 500 megawatts from wind energy.
But all the ambitions arise within a non-favourable situation, aggravated by energy deficit in Tunisia that continues to weigh heavily on the country’s trade balance and economy.
From January to November this year, Tunisia’s energy deficit alone accounted for 32.4 percent of the overall deficit of the country’s trade balance, according to the National Institute of Statistics.
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