Tunisia operates three wind farms. This year it cleared eight fleets’ worth of capacity for tender.
The operating base: about 245 MW, all built by state utility STEG. 55 MW at Sidi Daoud in the northeast, then about 190 MW at the Metline and Kchabta farms near Bizerte. In January the High Committee for Private Electricity Generation cleared a tender book that dwarfs it: 600 MW at Tabaga in Kebili, 400 MW at Jebel Abderrahmane in Nabeul and 200 MW at El Guettar in Gafsa, with another 800 MW across Zaghouan, Ksar El Jerri and Oum Darban queued behind wind measurement campaigns. A 77.25 MW Zaghouan farm won direct approval on top.
Private capital has already moved. Scatec, partnered 50/50 with Aeolus of the Toyota Tsusho Group, was awarded a 25-year PPA with STEG in January for the 75 MW El Fahs project: EUR 100 million of capex, financial close targeted for the first half of 2027, Scatec’s first wind project in the country.
In our coverage, MENA wind conversations tend to default to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Morocco. Meanwhile Tunisia drew up a pipeline eight times its fleet, awarded a 25-year PPA to international sponsors and set a 35 percent renewables target for 2030. Execution is the whole question now: which of the three cleared lots reaches financial close first?
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