Electricity sector in Tunisia: Current status and challenges--An example for a developing country

Souissi Ahmed

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2011, vol. 15, issue 1, 737-744

Abstract: During the last decade, Tunisia evolved in an extremely difficult energy context characterized by the stabilization of the resources in hydrocarbons, the increase of the energy consumption and the increase of the price of oil ($147 the barrel in July, 2008), imposing on it to mobilize more to meet several challenges in terms of outside energetic dependence for the generation of electricity and the reduction of greenhouse gases. This policy allowed the reduction in the rate of growth of energy intensity of the country. This article presents a review about renewable and conventional energy resources, electricity consumption and production and the policy adopted by the country for energy conservation and the promotion of renewable energy.

Keywords: Renewable; energy; Conventional; energy; Renewable; energy; policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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