Tunisia’s Zarzis Djerba Solar Eco-Village, with a scale model produced by Solar Tech South, is nearing completion.
The solar village will help the country’s employment rates, renewable energy targets, and generate sustainable revenues such as promoting organic farming and desalination techniques.
Earlier in July, Japan and Tunisia announced an agreement to undertake a solar power generation project that would host research by Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization as well as operate as a power generation facility.
Tunisia received a $55-million loan from the World Bank to increase its activity in the renewable energy sector a year ago. The National Energy Control Agency Director General Ben Aissa Ayadi said that Tunisia planned to increase its renewable energy generation from 0.8% in 2009 to 4.3% by 2014. In April 2009, Tunisia launched a four-year energy-saving program to reduce energy demand 20% by 2011. The National Agency of Energy Conservation director Mounir Bahri said the plan aims to reduce energy consumption by 3% each year (Tunisia Launches Energy Saving Program).
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