Tunisia has launched a power tender aiming to award deals to 140MW of wind and 70MW of solar capacity. 

Selected projects will sell power under a long-term PPA to the state-owned utility Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company (Steg).

The tender, opened by the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Renewable Energies, is the first in a series planned by the Tunisian government, which is looking to install around 1GW of renewables capacity by 2020.