7月28日，經提供了資金和技術,建立5MW的示范太陽能發電站,在突尼斯南部的EI Borma, joing宣布。

投資總額和太陽能技術的類型，日本尚未透露。

突尼斯的國際發展合作部長Mohamed Nouri Jouini和日本經濟、貿易和工業Todahiro松下電器的部副部長 Todahiro Matsushita簽署的聯合聲明。兩個政府自從1977年在不同領域開始合作。太陽能合作項目在突尼斯還是首次。

太陽能工程諒解備忘錄將在十二月簽署。

在日本, 2009年東亞國家安裝484MW太陽能發電系統,超過了美國年生產能力，躍居第三名。

Japan has offered funding and technology to build a 5MW pilot solar power station at El Borma, south of Tunisia, according to a joing statement.

The investment amount and the specified type of solar technology from Japan were not disclosed.

The joint statement was signed by Tunisia’s minister of development and international co-operation Mohamed Nouri Jouini, and Japan’s deputy minister of economy, trade and industry Todahiro Matsushita.
The two governments have carried out programmes of co-operation in various other fields since 1977. The solar energy co-operation project is the first of its kind in Tunisia.

The memorandum of understanding for this solar project will be signed in December.

In Japan itself, the East Asian state has installed 484MW of solar power systems in 2009, overtaking the US for the third place in annual capacity additions.