Imperial College London

Imperial College of London supported TuNur on the study titled “EU Grid Integration of Tunisia-Based Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Plant”, which assessed how electricity from TuNur’s Tunisia-based CSP development could be integrated into the European electricity system. The work focused on the grid-integration implications of importing up to 2 GW of generation from Tunisia into Europe. The study evaluated the technical feasibility and expected system impacts of connecting TuNur’s planned 2 GW export scheme to Central Italy via an HVDC interconnection. It examined how such cross-Mediterranean power imports could interact with the European power system and identified potential grid integration benefits associated with bringing dispatchable solar generation into the European network. The study was reported publicly by Nur Energie/TuNur on 13 November 2012 as having been conducted by TuNur together with Imperial College of London (alongside DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability). This engagement sits in the project’s development stage and constitutes engineering consultancy work related to early-stage system and interconnection integration assessment for the Tunisia_Italy HVDC export concept.