The programme to promote photovoltaic solar roofs launched over the 2011-2015 period has exceeded 60% of its objectives and fostered the emergence of private assembly (5) and installation (210) firms. The implementation of renewable energy programmes could create positive externalities by creating a new industrial sub sector in these job-creating areas. It is, therefore, important that the reforms embarked upon aim edat improving the business environment for private sector participation in electric -24- power generation, especially in the area of renewable energies are pursued and accelerated. Publication of the implementing texts of the Law on Renewable Energy and the establishment of a sector regulatory authority are among the priorities. 6. The Government’s policy and strategy to reduce the country’s vulnerability and more effectively safeguard its supplies, is to initiate a real energy transition.It will be necessary to address the following challenges: (i) secure, continuing and affordable supply through, in particular, the adoption of sustainable energy mixes, (a) by intensifying the development of conventional, and possibly non-conventional oil and gas resources, (b) by diversifying natural gas sources of supply, (c) by developing the contribution of renewable energy in electric power generation, and (d) developing the power trade with neighbouring countries(including an interconnection with Italy); (ii) combatting energy insecurity by providing all citizens with access to energy with a special focus on the supply of natural gas to the urban communities of the country’s hinterland; (iii) economic streamlining by adopting an energy-efficient economic development model and stepping up efforts to diversify the energy mix through the use of renewable energy, in particular, wind and solar energy, aimed at achieving 12% of total electric power generation from renewable sources by 2020 and 30% by 2030; (iv) the development of regional integration through the intensification of regional electricity and gas trading; (v) implementation of the necessary institutional reforms for the sector’s future development through, in particular, revision of the Hydrocarbons Code, by adopting the implementing texts of the Law governing Electricity Generation from Renewable Sources in order to promote the private sector’s contribution to the development of these energies.

• Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy
• Société tunisienne de l'électricité et du gaz or STEG
• National Agency for Energy Conservation (ANME)

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