The German-Tunisian energy partnership will celebrate its tenth anniversary in September 2022. With a “Memorandum of Understanding” signed on May 11, 2022, this partnership was reaffirmed. The occasion was the workshop on “Renewable Energies in Tunisia” organized by the Chair of Wind Energy Technology at the University of Rostock in Tunis.
The signatories, about twenty Tunisian and German organizations, set themselves the particular goal of forming an open network for the exchange of innovation actors. The workshop was held as part of the international cooperation project Wind4Grid together with project partners from Tunisia and with the support of the Steinbeis Research Center Northeast. About forty participants from Tunisia and Germany discussed the current state of energy supply and the potentials of renewable energies. Specifically, the topics were the use of a wind turbine with battery storage for better grid integration, the further expansion of wind energy, the use of renewable electrical energy for the production of hydrogen, methanol and ethanol, seawater desalination for electrolysis, scenarios for offshore wind energy in Tunisia and lightweight construction concepts for wind turbines.
In addition to Professor Uwe Ritschel and Habib Ur Rehman from the Chair of Wind Energy Technology, Peter Stein, former member of the German Bundestag, and Frank Graage, head of the Steinbeis Center Northeast, participated from Rostock. The Wind4Grid project is part of the bilateral science and technology cooperation program TUNGER 2+2, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
Directly involved in the project are the Laboratoire d’Etudes des Systèmes Thermiques et Energétiques (Thermal and Energy Systems Laboratory, LESTE), the Chair of Wind Energy Technology, University of Rostock, LWET, Freqcon GmbH, Qair and Steinbeis Transfer GmbH.
