Law Relating to the Generation of Renewable Energy

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Law n° 2015-12 dated 11 May 2015 relating to the                     - The public organization: the Tunisian company of
electricity generation from renewable energies (1).              electricity and gas created under the terms of the decree-law
     In the name of the People,                                  n° 62-8 dated 3 April 1962, ratified by the law n° 62-16
                                                                 dated 24 May 1962.
     The People’s Representatives Assembly having adopted,
                                                                     - The national electrical supply network : the
     Having regard to the decision of the provisional            network exploited by the public organization, intended for
authority of control of constitutionality of draft laws dated
                                                                 the transport and the distribution of the electric power and
27 April 2015,                                                   all its accessories with knowing the equipment and the
      The President of the Republic enacts the following law:    materials.
                            Chapter one                              - Manufacturing unit of electricity starting from
                        General provisions                       renewable energies: installations, buildings, equipment
     Article one - The present law aims at defining the legal    and accessories intended for the production of electrical
mode relating to the realization of the projects of              energy starting from renewable sources of energy.
production of electricity starting from renewable sources of         - Site of production: installation and the exploitation
energy, that is to say for subsistence farming or to meet the    site of a manufacturing unit of electricity from renewable
needs of local consumption or for export, and this,              energies.
notwithstanding the provisions of the decree-law n° 62-8             - The hot line of electricity transmission: the power
dated 3 April 1962 relating to the creation and the              line carried out by a producer of electricity from renewable
organization of the Tunisian Company of electricity and          energies, for the connection of the manufacturing unit to the
gas, ratified by the law n° 62-16 dated 24 May 1962.             network established out of the Tunisian territory which is
     The law herein, has as objective to define the legal        considered to belong to the national electrical supply
mode governing the installations, the equipments, the real       network.
goods and the materials necessary to ensure the electricity          - Technical commission of private production
generations from renewable energies and the transport of         independent of electricity starting from renewable
this one.                                                        energies: The commission created under the terms of article
     Art. 2 - Within the meaning of the law herein, the          29 of this law, quoted hereafter " technical commission ".
following words mean:                                                - Higher commission of private production of
     - Electricity generation from renewable energies : all      electricity: charged commission, in accordance with the
operations aiming at producing electric power starting from      legislation in force, to examine all the projects of private
any other the solar renewable source or organic gas,             production of electricity.
geothermic, biomass, wind power, energy transformation,                                      Chapter II
     - Producer of electricity starting from renewable                  National plan of the electricity generation from
energies: any person is authorized to carry out and exploit                           renewable energies
a manufacturing unit of electricity starting from renewable
                                                                     Art. 3 - The Ministry in charge of energy, works out
energies in accordance with the provisions of this law and       after consultation of the national Council of energy, a
its texts of application.                                        national plan of the electricity generation from renewable
     - Company of project: the company created by the            energies which fixes the programs of electricity generations
producer of electricity for the realization, the operation and   from renewable energies              according to national
the exploitation of the manufacturing unit of electricity        requirements' in electric power while holding account for
starting from renewable energies in accordance with the          the capacity for absorption for the national electrical supply
provisions of this law.                                          network.
                                                                     The national plan also determines the reserves of energy
                                                                 and the zones of reserve of storage of energy which are
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