The power station project will cost an estimated US$450 million and the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) is providing funding of some US$200 million toward the project. The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) is providing financing worth US$50 million.
The SFD is also providing a US$80 million loan to co-finance a natural gas distribution project in in eastern Tunisia, with this to cover industrial areas and municipalities, in about 100 districts.