TuNur represents a partnership between British renewables company Low Carbon, developer Nur Energie, and Tunisian investors.
The project uses mirrors by the thousands to concentrate sunlight into a central point, where the light is then converted to heat that powers generators via heat engines.
Kevin Sara, Chief executive of TuNur, said that concentrated solar power "is a proven technology and the Sahara is an area of optimum solar resource. Successful government programmes such as Masen in Morocco prove that developing solar in the Sahara is a cost effective source of renewable energy today. This coupled with the growing energy demand and need for low carbon and non-intermittent power in Europe makes North Africa an optimum region for large scale solar development."
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