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Power plants in Tunisia

27 power-plant records · 5,052 MW reported capacity

  • Gas 70%
  • Hydro 22%
  • Wind 7%
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Tunisia at a glance

Power-plant records
27
Reported capacity
5,052 MW
Renewable electricity (2024)
4.4%
Most records
Gas, Hydro
Grid operator
STEG
Capital
Tunis

Largest listed power plants

  1. 1Rades A1700 MW
  2. 2Bir Mcherga 1486 MW
  3. 3IPP Rades 2470 MW
  4. 4Sousse C424 MW
  5. 5Sousse D424 MW
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Records by technology

Counts records, not generation share · coverage & dates

Reported capacity is the rated size of the listed installations, not electricity being produced now. Source dates and coverage differ, so newer facilities may be absent and historical records may remain.

How electricity works in Tunisia

Vertically integrated utilityOne utility does everything

Gas supplies almost all power; the ELMED cable to Italy is under construction.

  1. GenerationState utility
  2. TransmissionState utility
  3. DistributionState utility
  4. CustomersGovernment-set tariffs

Who regulates

No separate independent regulator is listed: the government or the utility itself sets tariffs and technical rules.

Who controls the grid

State-owned STEG runs electricity and gas.

Markets & power exchanges

No power exchange: the utility produces or buys electricity and sells it at set tariffs.

Regional grid

  • COMELEC · Maghreb gridRegional grid

    Member of COMELEC, the Maghreb Electricity Committee; North African grids are linked to each other and, through Morocco and Spain, to Europe.

What does “Vertically integrated utility” mean?

A single, usually state-owned utility generates, transmits and distributes electricity. Prices are set or approved by the government or a regulator rather than by a market.

References reviewed 2026-09-29. Logos are each organisation’s own site icon, shown to identify it. Selected organisations, not an exhaustive list of licence holders.

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ELECTRICITY IN 2024

How Tunisia generates electricity

Electricity generated21.4 TWh
Renewable share4.4%
Low-carbon share4.4%
Carbon intensity558.3 gCO₂e/kWh

Electricity mix 2024

Annual generation by source · terawatt-hours (TWh)

Hydro0.01 TWh
Wind0.37 TWh
Solar0.56 TWh
Bioenergy0 TWh
Other renewables0 TWh
Nuclear0 TWh
Coal0 TWh
Gas20.2 TWh
Other fossil0.23 TWh

Missing categories are labelled “No data”. Rounding can cause small differences from the reported total.

Source: Ember (2026), processed by Our World in Data · CC BY 4.0 · Snapshot 24 April 2026. Method & download details.

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Geography and data notes

Tunisia is in Northern Africa. Its coastal or island geography provides a different setting for electricity infrastructure from inland systems. This profile connects country reference information with the historical station inventory and reported electricity generation.

Capital
Tunis
Languages
Arabic
Region
Northern Africa

Geographic reference: Countries geographic database (ODbL). Boundaries and names are for orientation; language listings are introductory, not exhaustive. Banner map: Natural Earth boundaries (public domain) with this atlas’s station records.

The source inventory contains 27 records for Tunisia. Select a fuel in the map to explore where its stations are located, then open a record to inspect reported capacity and provenance.

Inventory coverage

27 source records. 0 reported operational in their source snapshot; this is not live status.

27 lack an owner/operator; 1 lack a commissioning year.

Coverage, dates & exclusions
THE GENERATION INVENTORY

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Browse 27 source records, ordered by reported capacity. Ownership and operating status describe the source snapshot; they may have changed. Missing information is shown explicitly.

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