At the end of December 2023, U4E supported a Regional Energy Efficiency Policy Workshop in Algiers organised with the African Union African Energy Commission (AFREC), as part of our activities under the African Energy Efficiency Program. Participants included representatives from African Union Member states, regional centres for renewable energy and energy efficiency, international partners and the private sector. The event was hosted by the Algerian Energy Efficiency Authority (APRUE), a public ...Read More
Bolivia and Tunisia Stakeholders Learn from Environmentally Sound Management Expertise in Spain
In November 2023, as part of a four-day study tour, representatives from Bolivia and Tunisia visited three waste management treatment sites in Madrid and Zaragoza in Spain. Their objective was to learn more about best practices in environmentally sound management (ESM) for electric and electronic waste, which includes lighting waste, and meeting the requirements of national extended producer responsibility (EPR) regulations – an environmental policy approach in which a producer’s responsibility ...Read More
Training Workshops in Tunisia Strengthen MVE Capacity for Lighting Products
In November 2023, UNEP U4E convened two training workshops to build capacity amongst key stakeholders in Tunisia for monitoring, verification and enforcement (MVE) activities to support the country’s forthcoming adoption of mandatory Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) for lighting products. Adoption of MEPS in line with the recommendations of the UNEP U4E model regulation guidelines for lighting project and the sustainable transition to energy-efficient lighting technologies has the ...Read More
Tunisia Moves Closer to a 50% Saving on Lighting Energy with Preparation of New Mandatory MEPS and Labels Regulations, Higher Performance, Eco-Efficient LED Lighting Products Across all Sectors
In October 2022, Tunisia moved closer to establishing minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) and labels for energy efficient lighting through a workshop and series of meetings convened by ANME, the Tunisian National Agency for Energy Management, and the United Nations Environment Programme’s United for Efficiency (UNEP-U4E) initiative as part of the Leapfrogging Tunisia's Lighting Market to High Efficiency Technologies project. This project, funded by the Global Environment Facility ...Read More
Tunisia Prepares to Equip New Photometry Testing Laboratory to Enhance its National Energy Efficient Lighting Testing Capabilities
In October 2022, as Tunisia prepares its final specifications to purchase new photometry equipment necessary for testing lamps in the main usage sectors, senior staff from Tunisia’s National Agency for Energy Management (ANME) and the national test laboratory CETIME, spent four days on a study tour in France to develop a fuller understanding of the technical features and quality of the key measurement systems required. Tunisia will effectively equip a modern photometric test facility to ...Read More
Official launch of Tunisia´s project to facilitate the rapid market transformation to high energy efficiency and usage-controlling lighting technologies
Improvement in Tunisia´s sustainable energy supply situation has been limited by restricted investment in energy resources, a decline in conventional fossil fuel energy production and a great increase in national energy demand. The growing imbalance between resources and energy needs has generated a deficit which reached 62% of primary energy demand in 2020. Moreover, the energy sector is by far the largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Tunisia, accounting for 58% of the country’s ...Read More
