Spain’s Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) has announced that it will hold its next renewable energy auction, with a capacity of 500 MW in April 2022. Of this, 200 MW is allocated to concentrated solar power (CSP) with six hours of battery storage capacity, 140 MW to distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) projects, 140 MW for biomass projects, and 20 MW for other technologies.
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Algeria’s Ministry of Energy Transition and Renewable Energy has launched a tender for the deployment of 1 GW of solar capacity. The procurement exercise will be divided into lots ranging from 50 MW to 300 MW each.
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The Ministry of Energy Transition and Renewable Energy of Algeria has launched a tender for the development and deployment of 1 GW capacity of solar projects. The tender will be held by Algerian Renewable Energy Company (SHAEMS), jointly owned by Sonatrach, a state-owned gas giant and Sonelgaz, a power utility.
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The Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources of Ecuador has published a request for proposal for three public selection processes for financing, construction, operation, and maintenance of two power generation projects with an installed capacity of 900 MW and a transmission project. Renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, hydropower, and biomass account for 500 MW of the 900 MW power-producing capacity.
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South Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy has announced the results of the fifth round of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Program (REIPPPP). This resulted in the allocation of 2,583 MW of renewable energy capacity to 25 projects with capacities ranging from 75 to 140 MW.
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Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL), an Indian state-owned company, will construct India’s largest green hydrogen-making facility to bolster its natural gas operations with carbon-free fuel. It has issued a global tender for the procurement of an electrolyser. The plant will take 12-14 months to establish. The company has chosen 2-3 locations for the unit, one of which is in Vijaipur, Madhya Pradesh.
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The Bangladesh-China Renewable Energy Company Limited (BCRECL) has floated an EPC tender for setting up a 60 MW solar power plant. This is a joint venture company of Bangladesh’s state run North-West Power Generation Company Ltd (NWPGCL) and the China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CMC). The said 60 MW project is part of a larger project to generate 450 MW electricity from renewables in Sujanagar, Pabna, in the northwest of Bangladesh.
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Turkey has invited bids for a 1.5 GW solar tender for the fifth auction round of its Yenilenebilir Enerji Kaynak Alanları (YEKA) renewable energy programme. The ceiling tariff has been set at $0.045 per kWh by the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources. The Turkish government aims to select 76 large-scale solar projects with capacities ranging from 10 MW to 30 MW across 23 regions.
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The energy ministry of Algeria has announced its plans to invite tenders for the deployment of 1 GW of solar energy projects. The tender is expected to be launched by the end of October 2021. The tender is likely to conclude with prices ranging from DZD 5 per kWh to DZD 7 per kWh.
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The Italian energy agency Gestore dei Servizi Energetici (GSE) has invited the seventh round of tenders for renewable energy projects in Italy. The agency aims to allocate 3,312 MW capacity of renewable projects, which will include both solar and wind energy.
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The Republic of Niger’s Ministry of Petroleum, Energy, and Renewable Energies has issued a tender for the construction of a 50 MW solar plant. The project will be located in Gourou Banda, in Niger’s Niamey area. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) will assist in the development of the project. The project is being developed under the Scaling Solar Initiative of the World Bank.
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According to the latest figures provided by the Federal Network Agency Bundesnetzagentur, Germany added 1.43 GW of solar capacity in the second quarter (Q2) of 2021. Compared to the previous quarter, solar installation increased by 113 MW (8.56 percent) in the second quarter, up from 1.32 GW. Installations increased 15% year over year to 1.24 GW in Q2 2020, compared to 1.24 GW in Q2 2019.
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South Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy has received 102 bids for 2.6 GW of renewable energy projects. Of the bids received, 63 were for solar projects while 39 were for wind projects. The announcement follows South Africa’s fifth renewable energy tender, floated in March 2021 for 2.6 GW of clean energy projects.
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An international tender for the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) of a 68 MW solar PV park in Bangladesh’s Sirajganj area has been issued. The Bangladesh China Renewable Energy Company Ltd, a joint venture between Bangladesh’s North-West Power Generation Company Limited and the China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation, has launched the bid, which includes the construction of a 15km 132 kV double circuit transmission line with a substation bay extension.
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Maldives’ Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, and Technology has floated a tender for the engineering, procurement, construction of a 40 MW/40 MWh battery energy storage systems (BESS) across 11 select islands. The BESS are set to improve renewable energy penetration for island grids and ensure efficient operation of generators in the solar-diesel hybrid generation mix.
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Dutch energy company Eneco and Danish European Energy have formed a new joint venture called Swan Wind. The two companies had joined forces so as to submit a proposal for the Thor offshore wind farm tender and Danish Energy Agency has recently qualified this joint venture for the said tender. Thor offshore wind farm is one of the two large offshore wind farms to be built in Denmark before 2030.
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Japan is a country which relies mainly on fossil fuels to meet its energy needs. However, the events at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami have shifted energy policies towards greater renewables adoption. While a FiT scheme was launched earlier, this gave way to auctions in 2017, which have since the key policy instrument driving the Japan’s transition to renewables.
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India’s Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has allocated 1.2 GW of wind-solar hybrid capacity among four renewable energy developers under Tranche III of the interstate transmission system (ISTS). Brookfield Asset Management backed ABC Renewable Energy, Adani Renewable Energy and the Indian arm of AMP Energy were awarded 380 MW, 600 MW and 130 MW of capacity respectively for Rs 2.41 ($0.033) per kWh.
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Indonesia’s state-owned power utility, PT PLN (PLN), recently issued two pre-qualification tenders inviting bidders to apply for inclusion in the list of selected developers (DPT) for solar PV and bioenergy (biomass and biogas) projects. Once developers pass the prequalification process, they will be eligible to be invited to participate in future PLN bids.
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