The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has launched a new technology neutral tendering scheme offering a price premium for solar photovoltaic (PV), onshore wind and open-door offshore wind projects. The scheme has a total budget of DKK842m (roughly €113m), which the DEA estimates to result in an equivalent to around 140 MW of onshore wind. The three technologies will compete against one another and it is unknown which one will be awarded price premium contracts. DKK254m (€34m) are allocated to this first round in 2018, and the rest is expected to be tendered in the fall of 2019.
In order to be eligible, projects have to be at a late development stage and they must be connected to the Danish grid within 2 or 4 years after contract signing depending on the technology. The deadline for bids has been set on 26 November 2018 and the cap price has been set at DKK130/MWh (€17.43/MWh). This cap is slightly higher than the low price of DKK128.9/MWh (€17.28/MWh) achieved in the country’s first solar PV tender, which occurred in December 2016.
In mid-September 2018, the DEA also opened a new tender for solar PV projects only with an installed capacity of less than 1 MW. The deadline for bids is set on 1 November 2018 and the total budget of the tender is DKK107m (€14.5m), expected to result in a total PV capacity of 35 MW. The cap price has been set at DKK150/MWh (€201/MWh).