Monday 24 February 2025 
The first photovoltaic kilowatt hours of the “Solar 1000 MW” project will be produced towards the end of 2023, the director general of the Algerian company of renewable energies “Shaems”, Smaïl Mougari, told APS.
The head of the company responsible for preparing and processing the call for tenders for this project, specified that “it is the Beni Ounif power plant in Béchar, with a capacity of 30 MW, which could succeed to produce the first solar kilowatt-hours of the Solar 1000 MW project, towards the end of 2023 or at the latest in early 2024”.
The electricity produced will be “exclusively and entirely” sold to Sonelgaz, over a period of 25 years, which is part of the guarantees requested by investors, namely the signing of direct electricity sales contracts (Power purchase agreements, PPA ), he explained.
The call for tenders for the construction of Solar 1000 MW was launched at the end of last December by the Ministry of Energy Transition and Renewable Energies.
This project consists of the constitution of Project Companies (SPV) in charge of carrying out a project of photovoltaic solar power plants with a total capacity of 1,000 MW, distributed over the national territory, in lots of 50 to 300 MW each.
It is part of the implementation of the national renewable energy program which aims to install 15,000 MW of renewable sources by 2035.
“Shaems” announced in mid-June the extension of the deadline for submitting tenders and the postponement of the opening of bids initially scheduled for April 30, 2022.