- Qair inaugurates a floating solar power plant in Tunis lake.
- The plant will provide 265 MWh of renewable energy to the grid.
The French company Qair has commissioned a floating solar power plant in Tunis lake. The electricity generated from the plant will be fed into the network of the Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company (STEG) annually. The project was inaugurated by Neila Nouira Gongi, Tunisia’s Minister of Industry, Energy and Mines and her counterpart Samir Saied.
According to the Qair group, the plant has a capacity of 200kWp. It is capable of supplying electricity to 130 Tunisian households.
The Qair Group built the floating solar power plant on Tunis lake with the support of Business France, a French public agency of an industrial and commercial nature. The IPP also relied on funding from the Private Sector Study and Support Fund (FASEP), the French Treasury funding mechanism.