Wind turbines in El Alia, Tunisia

    Core area “Climate and energy, just transition” Promoting renewable energies, launching an energy transition

    Tunisia has set itself the ambitious goal of generating about a third of its energy demand from renewable sources by the year 2030. Currently, the country’s energy production is almost exclusively derived from fossil fuels, mainly imported from abroad.

    Germany contributes funding to the construction of photovoltaic systems and wind farms and, through its development cooperation, offers technical advice on implementing the transformation of the energy system. It also assists with training experts, for instance technicians capable of installing photovoltaic systems, and supports approaches that seek to increase the energy efficiency in public buildings.

    Germany has provided support to 250 enterprises, making it possible for them to install more than 17,000 photovoltaic systems. These development cooperation activities are to help provide in excess of 350,000 households with electricity from renewable energies and to significantly reduce Tunisia's emissions of harmful Carbon dioxide.

    Green hydrogen as an important resource for the future

    • Image symbolising hydrogen (H2): circles in different sizes, each surrounding the chemical molecular formula of hydrogen, H2

    Green hydrogen and Power-to-X products

    Energy will be playing a bigger role in future in Tunisian-German cooperation. The two countries intend to work together on the manufacture of what is known as 'green hydrogen and of climate-neutral fuels (“Power-to-X products”).

    In December 2020, the BMZ and the Tunisian Ministry of Energy entered into an alliance, the purpose of which is to develop the Power-to-X sector in Tunisia and embark on joint pilot projects in that field.

    As at: 28/03/2023