Tunisia

The second International Exhibition of Energy Management will be held from 22 to 24 April 2010 at the Expo Center Medina in Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia. This edition will present the Tunisian policy in saving energy. It will show the interest of large international firms to relocate to Tunisia and conquer the North African markets.

The report is a summary of the workshop on solar water heating (SWH) technology which took place in Cairo in March 2009. The workshop looked into the technical aspects, framework conditions and private sector needs in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Syria and Tunisia.

This report was submitted by the World Energy Council in 2007. It describes the different instruments used to promote the diffusion of solar panels for heating water. The measures include economic incentives, regulations and strategies to improve the quality of equipment and installations through the use of technical standards and quality labels.
The report includes case studies to show as a cross-section of programmes set up in industrialized and developing countries. The case studies include the following countries: Austria, China, India, Mexico, Spain, and Tunisia.

This document from 2008 gives a comprehensive overview of CSP development in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The paper first looks into the key drivers and key inhibitors that impact the growth of CSP. Particular attention is given to the cost factor of CSP such as initial investment costs and the operating & maintenance costs.

This extensive study from 2007 assesses in a detailed way the potential of concentrated solar power (CSP) systems for large scale seawater desalination. The geographical scope of the report focuses on the urban centres in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

The objective of the study is to demonstrate that these large scale CSP processes can be used to provide water supply in a balanced, affordable and secure way and as such helping avoiding a threatening fresh water deficit.

The objective of this paper is to analyse and evaluate international experiences with the promotion of solar water heaters at household level.

During the compilation of this study, it became apparent that responsible organisations did not pay much attention to a distinct monitoring and an explicit evaluation of promotion programmes. The study shows which promotion measures resulted particularly successful, which difficulties occurred during their implementation and how these circumstances possibly could have been avoided.

SOLATERM is a project funded by the EU 6th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP6).

This 2007 report provides a very good overview of the market situations in the 8 participating Mediterranean countries. It is a very useful document for policy-makers wanting an overview of recent legislative frameworks, financial incentives and market potential for growth.

This 2005 report assesses the data that is needed in order for strategic development and to achieve long-term energy and water security in the wide Mediterranean Region. A major part of the study focuses on concentrating solar thermal power generation since it is considered by far the largest available renewable energy resource in the EU-MENA region. 

This 55-page study "International Experiences with the Promotion of Solar Water Heaters on Household-level", published in October 2006, introduces possible promotion mechanisms for solar water heaters on a household-level. Criteria for their assessment are defined in compliance therewith. The main focus of this paper is on describing and evaluating international experiences with promotion mechanisms in Germany, Greece, France, Tunisia, and Barcelona.

Further information: www.gtz.de/en/praxis/12538.htm

The grant programme Prosol II started 2005 in Tunisia and increased the market volume of solar water heaters tenfold within some years. See also news at: http://www.solarthermalworld.org/node/166