Malta introduces 15 MW solar tender

• The federal government intends to acquire numerous 1 MW-plus solar plants. The tender is the 3rd of its kind, and also part of the 50 MW reward plan the island's federal government released in November 2017.

Malta's Ministry for Energy and also Water Management has actually released a tender for the implementation of 15 MW of solar.

The management of the island state wishes to develop 1 MW-plus solar projects with the most recent, 3rd round of a tender program begun in late 2017.

Solar programmers have up until June 5 to send proposals.

The tender program is being accomplished under the modified renewables National Action Plan, which the Maltese federal government launched in 2017. The system imagined 3 tenders protecting around 50 MW of overall solar capability and also the preliminary, kept in February 2018, set aside around 15 MW. The 2nd round of bidding process was kept in August 2018.

Malta got to 154 MW of solar generation capability at the end of 2019, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency, consisting of 23 MW included in 2014.

The federal government sustains roof PV with an internet metering program. A feed-in toll for solar arrays as much as 1 MW in dimension was nearby the federal government in May 2016.

The Maltese federal government desires around 200 MW of solar by following year.