New wind farms to be built throughout Tunisia by 2009, national production should reach 175 MW by 2010.
Tunis , February16, 2008 (TunisiaOnline)--Three wind farms with a total capacity of 120 megawatts of electricity will be built by 2009 in Bizerta, Jendouba and Beja.
Tunisia's wind power energy strategy aims at increasing the total electricity production resulting from this non polluting form of energy to 175 MW by 2010, thus amounting to some 4,2% of the electricity production in the country.
Results from preliminary studies indicate that Tunisia is capable of producing 1000 MW of electricity from wind power energy.
Owing to the fact that wind power projects can only be initially launched thanks to state subsidies, the Tunisian government has so far pledged some 18 million dollars of funds for setting up the project.
On its part, German technical cooperation GTZ, will contribute to a height of 1,26 million euros in order to prepare the industrial sector to build aero-generators, electrical material and civil engineering tasks.
Throughout the world, the growth of the sector has reached 46% these last years. China has moved from 10 th place to 5 th in the world after the United States , Germany , India and Spain . Africa lags behind with only 0,5 % of the world's capacity.
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