The government of Tunisia has approved the regulatory framework for net metering, allowing private renewable power producers to generate electricity for self-consumption and to sell excess power to large energy consumers and to the national power utility STEG. The decree doesn't define the maximum amount for the sale of excess generation but it sets up the conditions for the use of national grid infrastructures to sell power to third parties through bilateral power purchase agreements (PPAs). The government aims at increasing the competitiveness of energy-intensive companies in Tunisia, and this option to sell power under PPAs is expected to improve their power supply at a low and stable cost.
At the end of 2018, Tunisia had an installed renewable power capacity of more than 350 MW, including 245 MW of wind, 47 MW of solar and 62 MW of hydropower.