The 210kW system – the second-largest in Tunisia – will be finished next month, and is expected to cover 70% ofthe power needs of the recently completed 1.8 million-litres-per-daydesalination plant.

It was financed by theJapanese government as a gift to Tunisia. Conergy won the job as asub-contractor for Japan’s Takaoka Engineering, with its French and Italianproject teams working together on the project.

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