PROSOL TUNISIA 2007
I. Introduction
Within the framework of its strategy to develop renewable energies, the Tunisian government has decided to launch an ambitious program aiming the development of the use of Solar Water-Heater (SWH) in the residential sector, through the implementation of a number of encouraging measures. This program called PROSOL TUNISIA (Solar promotion for Tunisia), started in February 2005
II. Different contributors to PROSOL:
Therefore, on the initiative of the Ministry of industry, Energy Small and Medium size enterprises, and the participation of the National Agency for energy conservation (ANME), and with the backup of the Italian Ministry for the Environment and Territory through the United Nations Program for the environment (UNEP) and the Mediterranean Renewable Energy Center (MEDREC), it was decided to launch, a financial mechanism allowing the revitalisation of solar water-heaters market in Tunisia.
The intervening parties in the new program are:
a) ANME (UGP) : project management and subsidies service,
b) MEDREC and the PNUE as project financial partners,
c) Commercial banks for financing about 70% of SWH cost (through a supplier type credit).
d) STEG as a refunding guarantor of credits through electricity bill
III. Improvements of the financial mechanism for residential PROSOL for 2007:
To improve demand and supply, many improvements to the financing mechanism have been decided in 2007, namely:
- The introduction of two additional credits levels (550 and 1150 TD) in addition to the two already used credit levels (750 and 950 TD) to cover 200l and 300 l SWH.
- Guarantee of payment through STEG invoice
- Providing of a standard banking credit line " consumers credit " to deal with the -problem of the suppliers debt
- Acceptance of STEG and ANME to pay the suppliers at end of the month.
- Simplification of ANME and STEG intern administrative procedures and improvement of the data-processing tools to treat the received files. |
