MSP UPDATE

with potential for

ITALIAN CSP IMPORTS
and beyond

STIG 26 March 2010

leon.dimarco@btinternet.com

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EXPERTS' GROUP MEETING ON ELECTRICITY
INTERCONNECTIONS
Brussels, 8-9 February 2010
Charlemagne Building, Room Sicco Mansholt

UNION FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN

Mediterranean Solar Plan
- Meeting of Experts -
Brussels, 10 February 2010
10:00 -12:30
European Commission - Charlemagne Building

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 8 February
14:00 Investments in Renewable Energy Capacity

Mediterranean Solar Plan: the agenda for 2010 - by Mr Philippe Lorec,
MSP Coordinator for France

The potential for investments in Solar Thermal Plant - by Mrs Mariàngels

Pérez Latorre, ESTELA

The potential for investments in Photovoltaic Solar - by Secretary General

Adel El Gammal, European Photovoltaic Industry Association

A long term vision: what infrastructures would be needed to support large

scale electricity exports by 2030-2050? - by Mr Paul van Son, CEO of
DESERTEC Industrial Initiative

The potential for investments in Wind Energy - by Policy Director Justin

Wilkes, European Wind Energy Association

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 10 February

MSP GOALS
Strategy Paper 2010

The MSP intends to increase the use of solar energy and

other renewable energy sources for power generation,
improve energy efficiency and energy savings, develop
electricity grid interconnections and foster and encourage
the transfer of know-how and technology towards
developing countries in order to strengthen the skills in the
domain of renewable energy and energy efficiency.

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 MSP GOALS
By contributing to the development of solar and other
renewable generation capacities and green electricity trade
between the Mediterranean countries and the EU, the
Mediterranean Solar Plan will help to address the challenges
of internal energy demand in the participating countries. It will
help to achieve the objectives of the EU energy and climate
package as well as national targets set in other member
states of the Union for the Mediterranean. But the MSP will
also significantly contribute to the sustainable development
of non-EU countries, promoting investments and job creation

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 LOREC
The Mediterranean Solar Plan
Union for the Mediterranean
The agenda for 2010 and after
I- Evaluation of the current situation
and next steps …
A/ Evolution of legal frameworks
B/ Projects : Number of proposed projects
Projects officially supported by national programms
Projects of private initiatives
CTF registered projects
C/ Institutional progress
D/ Financial Facilitations and Plateforms
E/ Industrial consortium (DII, TRANSGREEN…)

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The Mediterranean Solar Plan
Union for the Mediterranean
Projects registered within the
Clean Tech Fund:

CSP and transmission lines :

13 projects in 5 countries,
885MW et 2 transmission lines

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The Mediterranean Solar Plan
Union for the Mediterranean
- Institutional progress -
Events 2010
•Creation of the UfM secretariat, High Senior Officials meeting
•02/10 Brussels, 43 experts Meeting
•05/10 Valencia, Spanish presidency
•05/10 Cairo, Ministerial Meeting

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Focus areas of Dii within the next three years:n objectives of Dii
Regulatory andlegislative
REGULATORY
Creating acceptance and willingness in MENA and EU. Analysis
and negotiation of a favorable legal and regulatory framework
Roll-outplan
ROLL OUT
Over all long-term strategy until 2050. Investment and financing
guidance
Concretreference
REFERENCE PROJECTS
Origination of early reference projects in order to demonstrate the
feasibility of the concept
Additionstudies
STUDIES
E.g: Survey on availability of primary energy, technology survey,
market analysis (new investors)

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ITALIAN EU RENEWABLE DIRECTIVE DECLARATION
2. Required use of means other than domestic production
Article 8-bis of Law No 13 of 27 February 2009 lays down that a measure
must be issued defining how the minimum quota for increasing energy
production from renewable sources is to be broken down between the
regions so as to achieve the objective of 17% of gross domestic
consumption by 2020. A study was carried out in order to implement this
provision. This revealed the need for a ‘foreign’ contribution of around 4.0
Mtoe, made up of around 2.9 Mtoe from biofuels produced abroad or
produced in Italy from imported biomass (including any contribution
from bioliquids used for electricity production) and around 1.1 Mtoe from
foreign contributions in various forms (e.g. electricity imports, joint
projects with EU and non-EU countries, statistical transfer), as provided
for by the Directive.
It is clear from the above that there is not expected to be any excess
production of energy from renewable sources that could be transferred to
other Member States, even under joint projects.
It is intended instead to use means other than domestic production at the
overall level set out above.
Given that imports of biofuels and biomass for the production of biofuels
can occur through the normal market channels, they are not counted for the
purposes of this document.
Instead, it sets out below the elements on the basis of which the
estimate of electricity imports of around 1.1 Mtoe/year in 2020 is
plausible.

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This wider initiative involves:
- construction in Tunisia of a 1 200 MW production centre intended for the Tunisian and
Italian markets by a contractor for production rights in Tunisia selected by means of an
international procedure;
- construction of a 1 000 MW submarine electrical link between Italy and Tunisia to be
used to transmit energy from the new production centre and for additional flows of
electricity from renewable sources.
Terna and Steg have signed a partnership agreement and established the joint enterprise
EIMed Etudes, which is already up and running.
The ‘call for expressions of interest’ has already taken place and saw replies from 16 different
parties including electricity producers, institutional investors (private and sovereign funds)
and developers.
The merchant line project originated in connection with investments in the wind power sector
that the same group intends to carry out in Tunisia.
Technical comparisons are underway on some areas of partial overlapping between the two
projects.
On the basis of the data set out above, we can cautiously estimate that, with effect from 2018,
it will be possible to import from Tunisia 0.6 TWh/year of electricity from renewable sources,
which is equivalent to 0.052 Mtoe/year.
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ITALIAN- TUNISIAN RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY IMPORTS
• stated as 0.6 TWh / year
• This estimate is very low because Tunisian generation is mostly non renewable
• Huge potential for new renewable generators in Tunisia - at least several 100MW
• CSP the leading candidate technology
• The start of the southern solar grid - with links through Italy to Germany

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