Shining example? Solar power boosts struggling
A solar-powered school in northern Tunisia shows how the country''s lagging schools might be turned around - and renewables boosted
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Eni successfully completes the renewable energy access program in
Tunis (Tunisia), 25 November 2025 – Eni today inaugurated the photovoltaic plant installed at the “Lycée de Tataouine” in southern Tunisia, in the presence of local authorities and the Italian Ambassador to
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Shining example? Solar power boosts struggling Tunisian school
A decade ago, the Makthar boarding school in northern Tunisia had little clean drinking water or heat, poor food and no electricity for its nearly 570 students.
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The School Funding Robotics Classes by Selling Its Own Solar
A school in Makthar, Tunisia is earning high marks for using solar energy to light and heat its classrooms –– and, in the process, earn some extra money on the side.
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FEATURE-Shining example: Solar power boosts struggling Tunisian
With 100,000 Tunisian dinars ($32,250), he bought 50 solar water heaters and photovoltaic panels capable of producing 45,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of power, four times as much
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Solar power, farming revive Tunisia school as social enterprise
Most Tunisian schools are cash-strapped and run down, but an innovative project has allowed one to become self-sustaining by generating its own solar power and growing its own food.
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