The work group for Energy Democracy was created in the second semester of 2020, in an attempt of certain syndicalists of the electricity and gas sector in Tunisia to transfer the battle of renewable energy from the trade union field to the civil and societal field, especially with signs of exhaustion starting to develop in the trade union movement, weakening the possibility to to continue the struggle on the ground.

The actual launch of the working group took place during the symposium of December 29, 2020, which was held in the city of Sidi Bouzid, with the participation of the Union of Unemployed Graduates UDC, during which the group tried to present its view on the reality of renewable energy in Tunisia, as well as on all issues related to electricity at the national level and how the unemployed will exploit this file in order to create a core of cooperatives in the field.