Section: ENERGY TRANSITION · December 26, 2025 · No comments | Tags: Energy Transistion, feature, featured
Tunisia has commissioned the first solar power plant to exceed 100 megawatts of installed capacity.
The 120MWp Kairouan solar power plant, located in the Kairouan Governorate in the inland desert in the north of the country, is also the first to inject renewable electricity into the 225-kilovolt high-voltage grid of the Societe Tunisienne de l’Electricite et du Gaz (STEG).
The power station is a ground-mounted solar project sitting on 200 hectares (490 acres). It comprises 220,416 modules, each with capacity of 545W, capable of generating 120 megawatts at maximum output. It is expected that 16 inverters will be required to energize the station.
The plant will produce 222 gigawatt-hours of clean electricity to supply nearly 43,000 households, also averting around 117,000 tonnes of CO₂ emissions each year.
Developed by a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) comprised of Amea Power of the United Arab Emirates (50%) and Xinjiang New Energy of China(50%) the plant’s design and construction were funded from loans, chiefly from International Finance Corporation ($86Million) and Africa Development Bank, which contributed approximately $25Million, drawing on its own resources and those of the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), a multi-donor special fund managed by the Bank Group.
A power purchase agreement (PPA) has been signed by the SPV company and the off-taker, (STEG). The 20-year PPA governs the sale and purchase of 100 MW of electricity at $0.028 per 1kWh.
The plant was construted by a joint venture between China Energy Engineering Group, Tianjin Electric Power Construction and Northwest Electric Power Design Institute.
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