The Serbian authorities has allotted a quota of fifty MW for its first photo voltaic public sale. Photo voltaic crops with a capability of greater than 500 kW might be allowed to take part within the aggressive tender course of, with the value ceiling set at €90 ($96.10)/MWh.
Within the first of those renewable vitality auctions, Serbia plans to allocate premiums for wind farms with a cumulative capability of 400 MW and photo voltaic crops with a complete capability of fifty MW.
The ceiling costs of the long run auctions are set at €105/MWh for wind farms above 3 MW in capability and at €90/MWh for photo voltaic initiatives above 500 kW in dimension. . The state-owned utility Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) will act as the only off-taker for these initiatives.
The air quota was first decided in December 2021, however nothing delicate has occurred within the meantime. Now, the primary wind public sale is anticipated to happen this month, as introduced by Power Minister Dubravka Djedovic in Might.
Profitable bidders might be topic to the newly adopted legal responsibility balancing contract mannequin, the place they are going to be obligated to pay EPS surcharges for deviations from estimated output. The quantity of the surcharges might be decided in response to future market costs, the federal government stated.
The auctions might be organized with the monetary help of the European Financial institution for Reconstruction and Growth (EBRD). In March, the EBRD authorized a financing package deal of €300 million to EPS to speed up wind and photo voltaic rollout and assist ship the nation’s ambition to section out coal by 2050. The financial institution is aiding the Serbian authorities in growth of renewable auctions since 2020.
No date has been set for the photo voltaic public sale. Nonetheless, the federal government stated it expects “fierce competitors” as there are already greater than 100 MW of photo voltaic crops with era licenses within the nation at this stage.
In line with authorities knowledge, Serbia at present has 23 working photo voltaic initiatives. The nation’s largest photo voltaic plant, the 9.9 MW DeLasol PV challenge, was turned on in Lapovo, central Serbia, in April.
In Might, the Serbian authorities stated it was on the lookout for a strategic accomplice to develop a minimum of 5 PV crops with a cumulative capability of 1 GW/1.2 GWh and a minimum of 200 MW/400 MWh of storage of battery vitality. The services might be inbuilt 4 to 5 years, whereas the contract with the strategic accomplice, which might be chosen in a young, will cowl six to seven years.
Serbia goals to deploy 8.3 GW of PV by 2024, in response to a draft plan launched by the federal government final yr. In line with the doc, utility-scale PV initiatives could possibly be constructed on 200,000 hectares of uncared for, low-value agricultural land that would host 2 GW of photo voltaic.
The draft additionally stipulates the development of about 300 MW of PV crops, value €200 million on land owned by EPS – primarily its coal ash dumps. Many of the photo voltaic capability deliberate below the 2022-24 draft ought to come from rooftop PV.
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