| Société tunisienne de l'électricité et du gaz | |
| Type: | Tunisian public company |
| Founded Date: | 3 April 1962 |
Société tunisienne de l'électricité et du gaz (الشركة التونسية للكهرباء و الغاز) or STEG is a Tunisian public company non-administrative. Established in 1962, its mission is the production and distribution of electricity and natural gas on the Tunisian territory.STEG is the second-largest Tunisian company by revenues in 2009.[1]
Until August 1959 the Tunisian electricity industry was divided among eight different companies. Having decided to temporarily take over these companies, the Tunisian government site, 15 August 1958, a management committee at the head of one of these companies known as Tunisian Company of Electricity and transport. By Decree-Law No. 62-8 of 3 April 1962, the State terminates this situation by creating a public monopoly given to the STEG. Shortly after, an electrification policy is in place that, in forty years, the urban electrification rate of 20% passed nearly 100% and the rural electrification rate from 6% to 99% .
STEG has a park in 2011 production of 24 production units with a total capacity of 3,526 MW, powered by 82% natural gas.[2]
Alstom Power worked on the construction of STEG's combined cycle power plants in Sousse (1994), Radès (2001) and Ghannouch (2011).[3] [4]