While in Austria many are (for good reason) impatiently awaiting the ‚EAG‘ law to provide a new framework for intensified and more marked-based RES deployment, CEER just provided with a recently published report interesting insights into the state of play of RES tendering procedures across Europe.
Some interesting take-aways:
– in 18 countries RES tenders have been already applied
– in majority these tenders are technology-specific (technology- neutral tenders rather play a role once some experiences with tendering have been made)
– for the technology-neutral tenders in Germany, France and Hungary, PV has been the winning RES technology
– ‚pay-as-bid‘ combined with feed-in-premiums seems to be the standard
– comprehensive conclusions on the efficiency of tenders would require additional Information. Preliminarily, it has been observed that prices went down but not tremendously, while the level of competition was very mixed
– RES support based on tendering seems to
be more vulnerable to outside influences (permitting, zoning, etc.)
A recommended reading for everybody interested in RES support schemes…e.g while waiting for new EAG news. 😊
reshaping.energy 
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