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.
With an investment of about $32,250, the school''s solar panels produce four times the power the campus needs, allowing it to give the excess energy away to other schools nearby.
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
A solar-powered school in northern Tunisia shows how the country''s lagging schools might be turned around - and renewables boosted
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.
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.
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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