Akuo, partners sign PPA for 10 MWp Gabes solar PV project

Akuo, with its Tunisian partners HBG Holding (Hédi Bouchamaoui Group) and Nour Energy, have signed a power purchasing agreement with STEG (Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du Gaz, i.e. the Tunisian electricity and gas company) for a 10 MWp solar plant, thus formalizing the Gabès project’s implementation.

The power plant will be equipped with bifacial solar photovoltaic panels laid on trackers that can swivel in order to continually face the sun, thus allowing the panels to receive more sunlight. This project, located in Gabès governorate, is part of a local and sustainable approach, as jobs will be created throughout its life cycle: the site’s construction phase will enable close to 200 jobs to be created and its operational phase another 15. The plant will allow approximately 23 GWh of renewable and decentralized electricity to be produced locally each year, i.e. the equivalent of the consumption of more than 14,000 inhabitants. The project’s financing should be completed in 2021 and the site is expected to become operational in 2022.