Tunisia

TABLE 3. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES

Estimated available energy sources
Fossil Fuels Nuclear Renewables
Solid Liquid Gas Uranium Hydro Other
Renewable
Total amount in specific units* - 3.579 3.275 14.000 0.6 0.2
Total amount in Exajoule (EJ)

TABLE 4. ENERGY STATISTICS (IN EJ)

Average annual growth rate (%)
1980 1990 2000 2005 2007* 2000 to 2007
Energy consumption**
- Total 0.1174 0.1814 0.2738 0.3042 0.3213 +2.3
- Solids*** 0.0037 0.0029 0.0034 0.0038 0.0089 +14.5
- Liquids 0.0972 0.1286 0.1610 0.1641 0.1669 +0.5
- Gases 0.0164 0.0497 0.1091 0.1357 0.1452 +4.2
- Nuclear 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
- Hydro 0.0001 0.0002 0.0002 0.0005 0.0002 -3.8
- Other Renewables 0.0000 0.0000 0.0001 0.0002 0.0002 +9.2
Energy production
- Total 0.2586 0.2261 0.2801 0.2827 0.3158 +1.7
- Solids*** 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
- Liquids 0.2416 0.1931 0.1566 0.1457 0.1953 +3.2
- Gases 0.0169 0.0328 0.1232 0.1363 0.1202 -0.3
- Nuclear 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
- Hydro 0.0001 0.0129 0.0002 0.0005 0.0002 -3.8
- Other Renewables 0.0000 0.0000 0.0001 0.0002 0.0002 +9.2
Net import (Import - Export)
- Total -0.1260 -0.0408 0.0007 0.0254 0.0218 +64.4

TABLE 5. ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION AND CAPACITY

Average annual growth rate (%)
1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 2007 2000 to 2007
Capacity of electrical plants (MW)
- Thermal 832 1265 2313 3170 3232 +4.9
- Hydro 28 64 61.2 62 62 +0.2
- Nuclear 0 0 0 0 0
- Wind 0 0 10.6 19 19 +8.7
- Geothermal 0 0 0 0 0
- other renewable 0 0 0 0 0
- Total 861 1329 2385 3251 3313 +4.8
Electricity production (GW.h)
- Thermal 2406 4854 10008 12857 13054 +3.9
- Hydro 23.5 43.6 64.4 145.2 49 -3.8
- Nuclear 0 0 0 0 0
- Wind 0 0 23.1 42.4 43 +9.3
- Geothermal 0 0 0 0 0
- other renewable 0 0 0 0 0
- Total (1) 2430 4898 10095 13044 13146 +3.8
Total Electricity consumption (GW.h) 2250 4400 8979 11244 12071 +4.3

TABLE 6. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS

1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 2007
Energy consumption per capita (ktep/ capita) 0.439 0.537 0.684 0.725 0.748
Electricity consumption per capita (GW.h/capita) 0.352 0.545 0.939 1.121 1.177
Electricity production/Energy production (%) 3.4 7.7 12.9 16.4 14.9
Nuclear/Total electricity (%) 0 0 0 0 0
Ratio of external dependency (%) (1) 0 0 0.3 8.8 8.7

TABLE 8: PLANNED NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

Station/Project Name Type Capacity Expected Construction Start Year Expected Commercial Year
To be defined - 700-1000 2016 2023
To be defined - 700-1000 2024 2030