Germany launches 650 MW tender for 'cutting-edge' renewables

• The long-awaited procurement workout consists of 250 MW of generation capacity originally planned to be tendered last year.

German federal network agency the Bundesnetzagentur has introduced the nation's very first tender for renewable resource tasks featuring innovative innovation.

The agency web site specifies the purchase exercise will see the allotment of 650 MW of generation capability, consisting of 250 MW of already-installed projects that were set to be alloted with a tender deserted last year due to an absent law.

In the new workout, proposals can be submitted-- for solitary jobs or clusters-- from September 1. The maximum worth of the set market premium settlement readily available for standalone tasks is EUR0.03/ kWh. For aggregated job capability-- which must include some solar or wind centers-- EUR0.0750/ kWh is available. The Bundesnetzagentur included, wind as well as biomass plants among the proposals need to have gotten authorization by August 11 as well as the upper size limitation for projects connected to grid development is 141 MW.

The tender style has met some objection, consisting of from the solar sector, due to the fact that it uses a fixed market premium instead of the flexible feed-in payment offered in technology-specific procurement rounds. That indicates plant drivers will not receive repayment for power generation in case of unfavorable power costs. "This implies that even more danger is moved to plant operators," claimed the Federal Ministry of Economics in January.