Bir El Haffey
- Country
- Tunisia
- Technology
- Solar PV
- Business model
- IPP
ElectriFI’s debt investment unlocked Belgian DFI’s BIO debt financing, allowing the first project financing for a renewable energy independent pover producer in Tunisia. It will pave the way for other, similar projects to be financed on a no- or limited-recourse basis.
Contract signature date: September 2020
Total ElectriFI financing: EUR 1.93 million
Environmental and Social Category: B+
(A) high risk, (B+) medium high risk, (B) medium risk or (C) low risk
About the project:
ElectriFI committed EUR 1.93 million to allow the first project financing for a renewable energy independent pover producer in Tunisia, consisting in a 10 MWp photovoltaic power plant in Central Tunisia, in the Governate of Sidi Bouzid. This project will pave the way for other similar projects to be financed on a no or limited recourse basis and will add the equivalent of 24,500 new implied connections, while saving about 9,900 tons of CO2 per year.
- Number of beneficiaries
- 98 000
- Annual output (MWh/y)
- 18 000
- GHG avoidance (tCO2eq/y)
- 9 900
Impact
- Beneficiaries
- Bir El Haffey
- Financing instrument
- Debt
- Amount
- EUR 1.93m
- Countries
- Tunisia
- Technology
- Solar PV
- Business model
- IPP
- Year
- 2020
- Facility
- ElectriFI Global