Poland’s Energy Regulatory Office announced last week that it has awarded nearly 1 gigawatt (GW) of wind energy in a mixed renewable energy auction held on November 5 at prices so low experts believe the country could award a further 850 megawatts (MW) of capacity.
For the second time this year, Germany has awarded all available capacity from its latest mixed wind and solar renewable energy auction to large-scale solar projects, awarding a total combined capacity of 201 megawatts (MW).
Greece’s Regulatory Authority for Energy announced on Wednesday the results of its first-ever renewable energy auction, in which it awarded a total of 277 megawatts (MW) to wind and solar technologies.
Spain’s solar association Unión Española Fotovoltaica has announced it is seeking legal action in the wake of what it is calling a “discriminatory” renewable energy auction that prioritized wind energy over solar energy, despite both technologies offering the same bid prices.
Originally published on Planetsave. Argentina has awarded a total of 1.1 GW of renewable energy projects in its first auction round of the RenovAR program. Of this total, 400 MW are solar electricity projects. The government has also announced a second round (“Round 1.5”) in November which will include a … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. The first renewable energy auction held in the UK under its new “contract for difference” pricing mechanism has pulled the rug from underneath the nuclear advocate argument that it is the cheapest form of clean energy. It has also surprised the UK government, and some of … [continued]
