Tunisia awards remaining 10MW in solar tender

April 25, 2019
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Tunisia has awarded the final 10MW from the 70MW second round of its 'authorisation regime' PV tender.

The first 60MW were divvied out in batches of 10MW earlier this month.

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Tunisia’s Ministry of Energy, Mines and Renewable Energies has now awarded the remaining capacity in batches of 1MW to the following entities:

  • Electro Rapide Global Electric Frikha Abdellatif
  • Sud Oil and Gas
  • Mourad Neji
  • Ouedrni Mohamed
  • Abdelhamid Zribi
  • Mohamed Ben Larbi
  • Ben Ayed Tarek
  • Perenco
  • Birriri Hatem
  • Karim Noureddine Zahmoul

In the first round of the authorisation programme, a total of 64MW out of a possible 70MW was awarded in May last year. 

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