Expor&ng

Solar Power to Europe

PRESENTATION FOR COP 21
PARIS 2015

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Ac&on Plan for COP 21: Facilitate Solar Exports from Africa to Europe
European countries and North Africa will benet from North African solar poten&al to meet
emissions reduc&on targets while providing a strong s&mulus to the North African economy.
Imported Electricity from Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants can:
1. Provide European countries with a non-intermiLent renewable power source;
2. Enable governments to meet 2020 and 2030 renewable energy targets;
3. Completely replace high carbon emiPng coal and oil power plants and its aging nuclear eet;
4. Reduce dependence on import fossil fuels including gas.

Impor&ng energy from the South, Europe can have a global impact on CSP deployment while
contribu&ng to energy security in Europe, economic development in North Africa and global

climate change mi&ga&on.

Ac&on Plan for COP21

q As a COP 21 commitment, European governments should open markets (FIT or clean power
premium regimes) to imports. Current policy discriminates against imported renewable
energy, these protec&onist barriers should be removed.
q As a COP 21 commitment, European governments should act to facilitate the transport of
base-load renewable energy across European borders to facilitate import projects.


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What is Concentrated Solar Power?

Concentrated Solar Power is Solar Power with
integrated thermal storage.
CSP concentrates the suns radia&on to heat a
transfer uid (water, molten salt or oil) to very
high temperatures reaching 550 oC).
The hot uid ows through a heat exchanger to
generate steam which drives a steam turbine to
generate electricity.
With storage, CSP can generate dispatchable
power a CSP plant can operate as base load or
semi-base load power.
Unlike Wind and Solar PV, CSP with storage can
generate baseload, non-intermiLent electricity.
Simple Design, Well Known Materials
A CSP plant consists of a solar eld (eld of
mirrors and tower with receiver on top) and a
power block (heat exchanger, turbine,
generator).
With molten salt storage, the prole of the
electricity genera&on can be similar to fossil fuel
and nuclear power plants.

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Importance of Base-load Renewables

CSP with storage can completely replace fossil fuel and nuclear energy
Fully dispatchable generator delivers rm output
Photovoltaic

CSP with 16
hours storage
Solid power
delivery -> high
capacity factor

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CSP has the ability to shib opera&on upon demand on peak &mes


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CSP with 8
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Shift to peak time -> high power fewer hours

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The Cost of CSP

The cost of CSP technology is falling rapidly.
q Technological developments, economies of scale
and use of local supply chains are driving costs
down.
q In Morocco costs declined from $193/MWh in
2012 to $160/MWh in 2014.
q CSP with thermal energy storage is cheaper than
PV integrated with electrical storage, the PV
system cost increase from 100/MWh to 280/
MWh.
q The cost of thermal storage will likely reach grid
parity before electricity storage, therefore CSP is
much more likely to replace fossils fuels on a
24/7/365 basis than PV or wind.
q The current high cost of CSP is largely due to the
lack of economies of scale in manufacturing and
installa&on because low volumes, so scaling up
will bring down the costs dras&cally (just as was
done for PV and wind power).

Today CSP with storage is already

cheaper than many o-shore wind
projects.

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CSP with Storage Vs PV and BaLeries

PV without storage is rela&vely cheap
The increased deployment of PV technology has contributed to the signicant decline in costs.
Installed PV is under 1 /W and the generates electricity at a cost of under 100/MWh

BUT PV WITH STORAGE IS STILL VERY EXPENSIVE!
The cost of adding a storage system can push the PV systems LCOE cost to 280/MWh.

The LCOE of CSP Tower systems with integrated storage is approaching 100/MWh
The LCOE is dependent on the solar radia&on and is expected to be lower in areas of higher
solar resource

Bloomberg NEF: LCOE

CSP towers with
storage 100/MWh

LCOE of Various CSP systems)

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Sunbelt areas (red) and high demand areas (yellow)

CSP plants could provide about
half of the regions electrical
produc&on, from a total capacity
of 390GW (DLR)

Global CSP capacity be in the

region of 1,500GW and with large
storage systems yearly output
could exceed 7,800TWh (ESTEA)

CSP predicted to produce 2,200TWh annually by

2050 from 630GW of local capaci&es (not
including export) and up to 5% of the annual
global electricity produc&on (IEA).

In theory CSP plants could

produce all the power EU and
NA from CSP if their respec&ve
grids are suciently
interconnected (PWC)

Every hour the earth receives

enough sun to produce solar
thermal energy equivalent to 21
billion tons of coal. (PWC)
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Solar energy in the blue

square
=
World electricity
consump&on
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Importance of Impor&ng Power for Europe

Europe currently faces the following energy issues:
Lack of low carbon base-load power;
Growing intermiLency due to the huge increase of Solar PV and Wind power;
50 GW of old inecient coal and oil-red power plants scheduled for decommissioning; and
Nuclear phase out or freeze programs, from countries such as Germany, Switzerland and
France.

Europe does not have op&mum solar resource and land availability to make CSP ecient and at
scale, but Europe can benet from its proximity to North Africa.
CSP energy from MENA region could play an important role in decarbonizing Europe's grid;
Imported CSP can contribute to mee&ng growing energy demands; and
Imported CSP can reduce the need for fossil fuels and new nuclear power plants.

Benets in Europe
CSP with thermal storage alleviates the problem of renewable energy intermiLency.
CSP provides base-load power to replace decommissioned inecient coal and oil-red power
plants and phased out nuclear power.
Impor&ng CSP from North Africa costs less than producing electricity from CSP in Europe, due
to higher DNI in MENA region, and the availability of proven, reliable HVDC cable technology.

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Importance of Expor&ng for North Africa

The TuNur project, a 2GW solar export project based in Tunisia, with an HVDC connector to
Italy will contribute signicantly to socio-economic development of Tunisia and the region.

q Up to 60% of the project components will be locally sourced with the par&cipa&on of exis&ng
Tunisian industrial companies and service providers.
q The project is expected to create over 15,000 much needed long term direct and indirect jobs
in Tunisia and the region.
q Technology transfer and local R&D will contribute to the building of a local supply chain for
CSP for domes&c projects and with export poten&al to the rest of the MENA region and
beyond.
q The Tunisian government will earn revenues from taxes and fees for land use and rights of
way; and some of the generated power will be available for domes&c consump&on as
required.
q Large scale projects like TuNur can aLract local and foreign direct investment which can
guarantee economic growth in Tunisia and the region and contribute to a poli&cal stability.
q The project will increase energy security in the region and reduce reliance on fossil fuels and
imports which will lead to energy self suciency.

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The TuNur Project

TuNur will contribute to socio-economic development in Tunisia and energy security in Europe
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The TuNur Project

The TuNur project is a u&lity scale solar export
project linking North Africa to Europe to be built
in 2 phases.

The project consists of three parts;
1. Solar power genera&on using CSP tower
technology in the Tunisian Sahara desert;
2. Dedicated High Voltage transmission from
the power plant to the European grid; and
3. Distribu&on of over 10,000 GWh of
dispatchable renewable power to 2.5m
European homes across Europe at prices
comparable to other low carbon sources
such as o-shore wind or new nuclear power
plants.

PHASE I: 250MW start construc&on in 2017,
rst delivery of power to Europe in 2018/19
PHASE II: 2000MW -- rst deliveries of power to
Europe 2019/2020
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TuNur Site Details

Loca&on: Rejim Maatoug, South-Western
Tunisia, in the governorate of Kebili
Total size: 10,000 ha
Solar Radia&on: 2,400 kWh/m2/year
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Tunisia Land Corridor

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Submarine Interconnector between Tunisia and Italy

Submarine cable landing point
located north of Rome.

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Project Milestones
q Project in mid late stage development.
Par&ally permiLed ready to build est. 2016, power delivered to Europe in 2018/19

q 10,000 hectares site
Well established site has the support of local authori&es and is located at the region of Rejim
Maatoug, in Southern Tunisia.
Independently veried solar resource based on 3 year on site data collec&on.

q 2000 MW GRID CONNECTION (STMG) from Italian grid operator TERNA
Landing point North of Rome, Italy for power injec&on in Italian Grid.

q PPA oer for rst 500MW
From one of UKs largest u&li&es; Contract for Dierence) scheme for imported renewables
under considera&on by UK government

q Financing oer of 1.6 billion for rst 250MW from pension fund

The project is also backed by one of the largest UK solar funds, Low Carbon Ltd (through Nur
Energie), as well as Tunisian and Maltese investors

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Contact Informa&on

Kevin Sara
CEO TuNur Ltd
E: ks@tunur.tn
M: 0044 780 234 4488
T: 0044 203 691 6388

Nur Energie Ltd

25 North Row
London, WC1A 1DD
United Kingdom
www.nurenergie.com

TuNur (Tunisia oce)

Immeuble Eya
Lac 2, 1053 Tunis
Tunisia

www.tunur.tn

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Nur Power Italy Srl

Corso di Porta Vigen&na
20122 Milano MI
Italy

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