Around one hundred Tunisian hotels will be helped to carry out an energy audit, enabling them to draw up an energy management action plan and benefit from grants from the Energy Transition Fund (FTE).
The support program will be launched by the National Energy Management Agency (ANME), in partnership with the Power Tunisia program funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and in coordination with the Tunisian Hotel Federation (FTH).
The hotels concerned will be selected on the basis of transparent criteria defined in advance by ANME and Power Tunisia in response to a call for expressions of interest, the deadline for which is August 31, according to ANME.
It is aimed at all Tunisian hotels wishing to improve their energy efficiency and control their costs.
In Tunisia, the building sector is the largest consumer of energy, accounting for 36% of final energy consumption. Hotels alone account for 25% of the buildings sector’s energy consumption.
Indeed, energy efficiency is a strategic choice that Tunisian hotels must make, as the “energy” component is now a factor that affects the competitiveness of hotels, enabling them to reduce energy consumption, cut energy costs, comply with current regulations, enhance their brand image and contribute to environmental sustainability.
These efforts are part of the implementation of the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) developed by the country.
Through this NDC, Tunisia aims to reduce primary energy consumption by 30%, increase the share of renewable energy by 35% and reduce the carbon intensity of the Tunisian economy by 45% by 2030 compared to 2010 levels.
