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Interviews & Viewpoints | Moncef Harrabi, CEO, Tunisian Company for Electricity and Gas: Interview from The Report: Tunisia 2019
Articles & Analysis | Renewable sources diversify electricity power generation in Tunisia from The Report: Tunisia 2019
Despite depending heavily on gas-fired electricity production, declining productivity at key fields and rising energy imports from Algeria have prompted Tunisia to turn to renewables. The government has set out objectives to encourage development, including increasing the contribution of renewable energy to 30% of the energy mix by 2030. This...
Interviews & Viewpoints | Slim Feriani, Minister of Industry and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Interview from The Report: Tunisia 2019
Articles & Analysis | As costs decline, renewable sources are seeing an inexorable rise, particularly among developing economies from The Report: Tunisia 2019
Although the world remains largely dependent upon fossil fuels for power generation, a gradual transition towards renewable sources has been taking place since the 1990s, underpinned by multilateral deals such as the Kyoto Protocol, the Doha Amendment and, more recently, the Paris Agreement. Investment and development in renewable technologies...
Articles & Analysis | Energy production in Tunisia gets a boost from new projects and diversification of the upstream energy mix from The Report: Tunisia 2019
Without the vast hydrocarbons riches of its regional neighbours, Tunisia has relied heavily on policy decisions to maintain energy security. Nonetheless the country has been able to profit from its modest oil and gas reserves, especially with regard to the offshore Hasdrubal and Miskar fields in the Gulf of Gabès, which represent 65% of...
Efforts to overhaul the country’s hydrocarbons regulations, however, have been stymied by political instability, while the development of energy projects has been slowed by social unrest across the country. A revised hydrocarbons code has yet to be passed by Parliament and the question of whether to tap into non-traditional oil and gas reservoirs has increasingly become a key issue of debate....