Observations about the “privatization of profits and nationalization of losses” associated with foreign investment and PPPs in Morocco resonate with concerns in Tunisia about European financial and technical assistance for renewable energies.
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Regulatory Reform and Financial Aid – Germany on Growing Tunisia’s Renewable Energy Sector
Two recent reports—Bardolet’s May 2014 overview for Dii and Cessat’s June 2014 analysis for GIZ—evaluate the present framework that governs renewable energies in Tunisia and recommend reforms conducive to opening the sector to foreign investment and collaboration. Both studies conclude that current regulatory measures pertaining to—particularly STEG’s—energy management are rigid, restrictive, exclusive and elusive, and that the imminent incorporation of provisions for «business models» as Bardolet discusses, or «foreign private operators» in the words of Cessat, of renewable energy projects is advisable.
Under the Tunisian Sun: Expanding Solar Energy Production for Autoconsumption and Export
The economic and development potential associated with Tunisia’s natural wealth are a pull for foreign investors in the exploration and extraction of hydrocarbons, desalination of sea water for consumption, the preparation and maintenance of natural heritage sites for tourism, and perhaps most recently, the production and exportation of solar energy.
