Located on the Tunis Lake, the floating solar power station developed by Qair Group was inaugurated on June 25. The floating solar facility, the first in North Africa, has a capacity of 200 kWp, or an annual capacity of 265 MWh. The energy produced will be injected into the STEG (Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company) network.
The facility was inaugurated in the presence of the Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy Neila Nouira Gongi, the Minister of Economy samir saied, the Head of the Regional Economic Service of the French Embassy in Tunisia Fanny Labarthe, the STEG Central Director of Distribution nejib chtourou and Jerome Billerey, the France Managing Director of Qair Group.
Key elements:
– 120 tons of CO2 emissions avoided
– 265 MWh per year of theoretical production
– The equivalent of the consumption of 130 households
– A project developed by Qair, supported by Business France Tunisie and financed by the Fonds d’études et d’Aide au secteur Privé (FASEP) – Direction générale du Trésor (French Treasury)
– A power station connected to the grid and sold to the Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du Gaz (STEG) in the framework of the Franco-Tunisian cooperation