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Tunisia can tender 1,200 MW of wind; another 800 MW waits on wind speed assessments
Of six wind sites cleared in December, three totalling 1,200 MW go to tender. Three more, 800 MW, wait on wind data: over three times Tunisia's roughly 245 MW fleet. 1 min read
Tunisia can put 1,200 MW of wind out to tender. It cannot put out the other 800.
In December the High Committee for Private Electricity Generation cleared six wind sites. Three go to market: Djebel Tebaga in Kebili at 600 MW, Djebel Abderrahman in Nabeul at 400, El Guettar in Gafsa at 200. Three do not, and the dividing line the committee drew is wind data. Zaghouan at 200 MW, Ksar El Jeri in Medenine at 500 and Oum Dharbane in Kasserine at 100 will only be tendered once wind speed assessments finish.
That is 800 MW parked at the cheapest stage of the whole chain. It is also more than three times everything Tunisia has connected since its first megawatt-scale wind plant in 2000. ANME counts the national fleet across Sidi Daoud, Métline and Kchabta at roughly 245 MW.
Now look at the Tunisian wind PPA Scatec won this year. Scatec and Aeolus took El Fahs, 75 MW, a 25-year contract with STEG dated 23 January, EUR 100 million of capex, financial close guided to the first half of 2027. Scatec’s own announcement describes a site with “long-term high-quality wind data”. That sentence is the asset.
My working assumption is that lenders want around a year of on-site measurement before they will underwrite a yield. So a met mast sets the clock at Zaghouan, Ksar El Jeri and Oum Dharbane long before any bank gets a say.
We keep explaining slow MENA wind build-out with capital costs and grid capacity. Both are real. Both arrive late. You cannot bid a site you have not measured.
Tunisia operates about 245 MW of wind and has drawn up a pipeline eight times that size
In January Tunisia cleared wind lots at Tabaga, Jebel Abderrahmane and El Guettar, and Scatec, with partner Aeolus, was awarded a 25-year PPA with STEG for the 75 MW El Fahs project. 1 min read
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?