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Portugal's very first solar public auction of 2020 will certainly be delayed this springtime till the COVID-19 situation has actually had the moment to ease off, PV Tech has actually picked up from a leading government official.

The victors in the Baltic country's initial tidy power public auction will certainly be introduced by June 20. With the workout ranked according to the anticipated result of the centers assigned, the federal government has actually devoted to obtain 5 GW well worth of centers, from an overall 16.3 GW provided by prospective buyers.

The Ministry for the Ecological and also Inclusive Transition's long-lasting public auction was arranged by grid driver RTE under the French ability purchase system. Storage space made up 253 MW of the ability designated in the public auction, which was open to all decarbonizing innovations.

The ceiling rate for wind and also solar has actually been evaluated EUR84.98/ MWh. Around 30 MW of set up power needs to be designated via this purchase workout. Solar projects varying in dimension from 500 kW to 2 MW will certainly be qualified to get involved.

The federal government is intending to present a purchase regimen this year which the Institute for Energy Economics and also Financial Analysis states might drive the rate of tidy electrical power as reduced as PHP3/kWh. It is assumed projects which missed out on the feed-in toll plan target date will certainly be qualified to complete in the public auctions.

Power regulatory authority the RAE has claimed the nation will certainly organize its 2nd joint PV and also wind ability public auction on April 2.

Rising interconnection costs and constraints are impacting Japan’s ability to contract large-scale solar capacity, according to a project winner in the country’s latest PV auction.

Only one 5 MW solar project was selected in the 500 MW auction, while wind project developers secured the remaining 495 MW. Final price for the selected solar park was €50/MWh.

Japan has awarded just 39.8MW of PV capacity in its fifth solar auction, despite there being more than 416MW initially on offer.

The Brazilian renewable energy subsidiary of power giant Enel Group has brought online a 475MW bifacial solar project in Brazil’s northeastern state of Piauí.

Spain’s Grupotec Servicios Avanzados SA has grid-connected two solar photovoltaic (PV) parks with around 92 MW of combined capacity it secured in the Spanish government’s 2017 renewable energy auction.

Wind took the largest share of the awarded capacity, according to the preliminary results, but newly introduced limitations for such projects helped solar to take a significant portion of the allocated power for the first time in a Polish energy auction, with the highest bid coming in at $0.0608/kWh.

The Spanish government has selected 55 solar installations in the procurement exercise. About 256 MW of the projects it awarded will be built on Mallorca, while Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera will host 61 MW, 6 MW and 2 MW of new capacity, respectively.

Endesa, a subsidiary of the biggest electric utility in Spain, has finished 252 megawatts of PV projects in Extremadura, which means all of the 339 megawatts the company gained at the governmental auction 2017 are now tied to electrical grid.

The final results of the exercise, which attracted 22 participants, will be known on April 15. A 200 MW solar project will be assigned in the auction, with the winning bidder for that facility securing a 20-year power purchase agreement.