Project

NAMA Support for the Tunisian Solar Plan

Lead country

Tunisia

Participating countries

Tunisia

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From January 6, 2015 to July 6, 2021

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 7.2 Increase share of global renewable energy
  2. 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning

Project ID: 5182

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Technical team

  • Energy Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Renewable Energy

Sub-area(s)

  • Resource: Solar
  • Type: On-grid, utility-scale

Landscape(s)

N/A

Transformed sector(s)

  • Energy

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Convening / Partnerships / Knowledge Sharing
  • Institutional mechanism and system building

Strategy

  • Law regulation
  • Finance economy

Sub-strategy

  • Standards/ Labeling/ Guideline
  • Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
  • Institutional framework
  • Energy finance
  • New/other financial schemes/mechanism

Social inclusion

  • Private sector

Gender equality

  • Awareness raising (on gender)

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender targeted

Pathway(s)

  • Sci-tech pathway
  • Systems pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Hazard control/mitigation

SDG target(s)

  • 7.2 Increase share of global renewable energy
  • 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning

Conventions and protocols

N/A

Private sector(s)

  • Capital providers

Hot topic

N/A

About this project

Description

The key focus of the proposed GEF project is to capacitate Tunisia to implement the TSP to its full potential i.e. 30% renewable electricity generation by 2030 using PV, wind and CSP. A project-based, stand-alone approach, though useful, is not sufficient to achieve this ambitious target. The proposed GEF project will, instead, support the implementation of the TSP using NAMAs pertaining to the three technologies. It will put in place the institutional and policy frameworks necessary to coordinate and support the up-scaling of renewable electricity in Tunisia, as well as developing an architecture for developing these NAMAs. Besides these two technical assistance components, the project also encompasses an investment component to support two baseline investment projects to enhance their mitigation potential and to be framed as supported NAMAs.

Objectives

To transform Tunisia"s energy sector for achieving large-scale emission reductions through the deployment of a TSP NAMA.

USD $3,652,968

Grant amount

USD $65,382,640

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Source(s) of fund

 

Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($3652968.00)

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

The enabling conditions, methodologies and tools are developed for de-risking the national policy environment for implementing the Tunisian Solar Plan through a TSP NAMA

 Indicators:

A NAMA developed for the TSP
Quantity of direct GHG emissions resulting from the baseline projects and TSP NAMA (tCO2/year)
Quantity of renewable electricity generated by on-grid baseline projects (MWh/year)
Energy sector system dynamics model developed and implemented
Number of committees established and operational
Number of policy and financial de-risking instruments designed using DREI analysis and implemented
Number of regulations
Number of financial instruments to capitalise the Energy Transition Fund
Number of national guidelines
Number of technical codes
Emission reductions from grid-connected wind and PV power
Number of households benefiting from electricity generated by wind and PV plants (households/year)
Outcome 2:

A coherent climate finance framework is established for the development of the TSP NAMA to catalyse the transformational capacity of the TSP to generate large emission reductions.
Outcome 3:

The TSP is operationalised by demonstrating a proof-of-concept energy NAMA with quantified GHG emission reductions.
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Project reports and documentation

 

Project Document (ProDoc)