Why Tunisia’s renewable energy strategy is facing resistance
Key takeaways
- Giving concessions for renewable projects to foreign corporations will not help solve the country’s energy crisis.
- This cycle of fuel crises and price shocks should be encouraging countries dependent on energy imports to address energy deficits and mitigate the impoverishment they cause among citizens.
- The Tunisian authorities, however, are pursuing the wrong policies to address the problem.
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Giving concessions for renewable projects to foreign corporations will not help solve the country’s energy crisis.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo In April, the Tunisian parliament approved five concessions for solar plants [File: Reuters/Maxim Shemetov]The Russia-Ukraine conflict and the United States-Israel war on Iran have exposed how fragile energy systems built on dependency and external markets truly are.
This cycle of fuel crises and price shocks should be encouraging countries dependent on energy imports to address energy deficits and mitigate the impoverishment they cause among citizens. And yet few are undertaking the bold actions needed to improve energy independence.