Page 26 - U4SSC Factsheet, Bizerte, Tunisia, June 2020

Electricity Supply

Category KPI Result Performance to Benchmark SDG

Smart Electricity Meters 0.00 %

Electricity Supply ICT 0.00 %
Monitoring

Demand Response 0.00 %
Penetration

Electricity System 162.00
Outage Frequency

Electricity System 65.00
Outage Time Minutes

Access to Electricity 96.37 %

While most households in Bizerte have an authorized connection to the city's electrical system, a high
number of electrical interruptions do occur, with every customer experiencing 162 interruptions on
average every year, each of which lasts an average of 65 minutes.

Optimizing electrical supply: It is recommended that the city studies and confirms the factors behind
its protracted average outage time, and take steps to reduce the time for each incident. The age, quality
and maintenance of the city’s electrical infrastructure should be examined.

The installation of household smart electricity meters and introduction of ICTs to monitor its electrical
supply systems is recommended for Bizerte, and this will further help the city to reduce any interruptions
in the electrical supply. This will also enable the city to move towards, and take advantage of, a more
local distributed energy resources (DER) market, which is gathering momentum in some African
countries in lieu of expensive grid infrastructure. Developing this demand-response capability will be
vital in keeping costs down in the future by providing load reductions during periods of extreme load
and curtailing demand on any overstretched and old power generation capacity.

Several ITU Recommendations from ITU-T Y.4000 to Y.4999: ‘Internet of things and smart cities and
communities’ contain guidance on IoT applications and ubiquitous sensor networking, including, for
example, ITU-T Y.4409/Y.2070: ‘Requirements and architecture of the home energy management
system and home network services’.

20 U4SSC Factsheet | Bizerte, Tunisia | June 2020