Tunisia
Qualitative Approach for Solar Water Heaters. The Tunisian experience (2009)
This is a presentation delivered by Mr. Noureddine Ketari from the Tunisian Institute Aptitudes during the Regional Workshop on Standardization and Certification of Solar Water Heaters organized by the Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE) in Tunisia.
- Aptitudes - Institute for Renewable Energies
- Certification
- costs
- Domestic Hot Water and Heating
- export
- Finance and Incentives
- GTZ
- installed collector area
- market development
- Policy
- Projet Qualité Solaire de Tunisie
- PROSOL
- Qualisol
- RCREEE
- Renewable Energy Sources
- Solar Keymark
- Standards
- Training and Education
- Tunisia
Tunisian Norms and the SWH Testing Procedures (2009)
This is a presentation delivered by Mr. Rafik Zaiane a Tunisian ministry official, during the Regional Workshop on Standardization and Certification of Solar Water Heaters organized by the Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE) in Tunisia.
- Domestic Hot Water and Heating
- INSITU
- installed collector area
- market development
- performance indicators
- Policy
- RCREEE
- Renewable Energy Sources
- solar thermal system sizing
- Standards
- testing procedures
- thermal performance
- thermal losses
- Tunisia
Les Normes Tunisiennes & Les Procédures des Tests des CES.pdf (13 downloads | 909.43 KB)
Tunisia: PROSOL Subsidises 4,000 m² of Commercial Installations
The “Collective Prosol Programme” in Tunisia is gaining momentum. The National Agency for Energy Conservation (ANME) started the subsidy programme for solar thermal installations in the tertiary sector back in 2008. The application rate was low at first, but 2010 became a good year for the commercial solar thermal market. At the end of that year, ANME counted a total installed and subsidised collector area of 4,000 m2, including four hotel installations with together 480 m2 and around 130 smaller installations under 30 m2. According to ANME, grants for another 1,770 m2 are still in the pipeline. And, a solar programme targeting 18 public swimming pools is also under development. The photo shows the solar installation on the Iberostar Phenicia hotel in Hammamet, at the northeast coast of Tunisia.
Photo: Alcor
- Alcor
- ANME
- Collective Prosol Programme
- Finance and Incentives
- FNME
- German Agency for International Cooperation
- Germany
- GIZ
- hammams
- hotels
- Italy
- multi-family-houses
- National Agency for Energy Conservation
- National Fund for Energy Management
- News
- swimming pool
- tertiary sector
- Tunisia
- UNEP
- United Nations Environment Programme
The Emergence of a Regulatory Framework in the MENA Region. Perspective from the Maghreb Countries (2009)
This presentation was delivered by Mr. Rafik Missaoui, a Tunisian Energy expert, during the “MENA Energized: Regional Challenges to "Green the Power" Sector” event held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. The event was jointly organized by the Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE) and the Euro Mediterranean Energy Market Integration Project (MED-EMIP).
- Algeria
- CSP
- Domestic Hot Water and Heating
- energy generation
- Euro Mediterranean Energy Market Integration Project
- Finance and Incentives
- Hassi R'Mel Project
- installed capacity
- installed collector area
- investment
- Libya
- MED-EMIP
- Morocco
- payback time
- Policy
- PROSOL
- RCREEE
- Renewable Energies
- solar thermal collectors
- Solar Thermal Power
- Tunisia
Solar Thermal Application in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Syria and Tunisia (2009)
This paper is the Cairo workshop report concerning Solar Water Heater (SWH) technologies used in the six Arab countries. The workshop was organized by the Egyptian-German Private Sector Development Programme (PSDP) in cooperation with GIZ (German Society for International Cooperation) and with the support of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. The aim was to compare the use of SWH technologies and to present a SWH market overview of those countries.
- Awareness Raising
- Domestic Hot Water and Heating
- Egypt
- Egyptian-German Private Sector Development Programme
- German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
- German Society for International Cooperation
- GIZ
- Jordan
- Lebanon
- local manufacturers
- local suppliers
- market barriers
- market overview
- Occupied Palestinian Territory
- Policy
- potential
- regional cooperation
- Syria
- Tunisia
ESTEC 2011 in France: Early Bird Registration extended
The early bird registration for the European Solar Thermal Energy Conference (estec 2011) has been extended to 15 July. You can save around EUR 100 if you sign up for the 2-day conference before this date. It will take place in Marseilles, France, on 20 and 21 October 2011. Fees are lower for members of the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation (ESTIF) or the French Solar Association ENERPLAN.
Photo: ESTIF
Cyprus: 4th International Solar Air-Conditioning Conference in Lanarca
Following Bad Staffelstein (Germany, 2005), Terragona (Spain, 2007), and Palermo (Italy, 2009), the 4th International Solar Air Conditioning Conference will now take place in Lanarca, Cyprus, from 12 to 14 October 2011. Over the years, the conference has grown into an important event, at which scientists and industrial researchers, product manufacturers, building designers and planners, contractors, and installers have met to exchange knowledge and experiences. The complete conference schedule is now available for download - and also attached to this news piece.
Photo: Zenith Consulting Engineers
Tunisia: „The solar thermal sector was not much affected by the revolution“
The economic situation in Tunisia two months after former President Ben Ali left the country is back to normal. Material supply is available without delay, the grants of the incentive programme are paid and even the demand for solar water heaters slowed down only a bit. Solarthermalworld.org spoke with Amjed Sibai, Managing Director of Sines Industries, one of the largest collector and tank manufacturers in the country, about the current business situation in Tunisia. Sines was founded in 2005 by him and his brother Ismail Sibai, who transferred the technology from their Greek partner which has been in the solar thermal market since 1976.
Algeria: Roll-out of the first Phase of Subsidy Programme ALSOL
The Algerian solar water heating programme ALSOL went into its first pilot phase. 400 residential systems with a 200 litre storage tank have been subsidised at around 45 % of the investment costs, capped at Algerian Dinar (DZD) 110,000. The licenses for installing the 400 subsidised systems were distributed among 15 solar thermal system suppliers in January. Largely, those thermosiphon systems consist of 1 collector, as can be seen on the photo on the left.
Photo: SCET Energie
Desalination Units Powered by Renewable Energy Systems: Opportunities & Challenges (2005)
This document gathers a series of papers presented during the International Seminar held in Hammamet, Tunisia in 2005. The seminar was organised in the framework of the ADU-RES project (Co-ordination Action for Autonomous Desalination Units based on Renewable Energy Systems). This project received funding from the European Commission from 2004 to 2006 and it remained active ever since, working more like a network of contacts and best practices.


















