The country plans to lower import tariffs on solar panels!

According to foreign media reports, on October 27, the Algerian government submitted a draft budget for the 2026 fiscal law (PLF), which contains a number of measures to support the development of renewable energy.

In the field of photovoltaics , Article 128 of the draft clearly stipulates that products used to manufacture photovoltaic solar panels (including unassembled batteries, junction boxes, aluminum frames and solar glass). Its imports will enjoy a preferential tariff rate of 5%.

The picture shows the Zergoun solar panel production

plant in Valgla, Algeria, according to relevant data, in the 12-month period up to June 2025. Algeria imported 1.2GW of solar modules from China , a 33-fold increase over the same period last year.