Renewable Energies Auctions Monitor

• Excel database compiling raw data and qualitative information
• 60 information criteria about past and planned RES auction design and outcomes:
  • General information such as auction scheme, date, name of the auctioneer and status
  • Auction design
    • General characteristics (technology, features, network, volume restrictions…)
    • Prequalification
    • Pricing rules
    • Award procedure
  • Participation/qualification (submitted bids and volumes, bid prices)
  • Auction outcomes (price, volume)
  • Post auction (realisation period, penalties if applicable, realisation rate)
• 53 countries covered, including Europe and main G20 countries
• Glossary covering auction structures and criterion
• Excel dashboard with graphs and charts on auction outcomes (i.e. awarded prices and volumes), and technology and country snapshots.

• Dashboards:
  • 1 Global dashboard with:
    • Key figures on the latest reported quarter
    • Volume awarded by technologies per quarter and per region
    • Top 10 Countries by awarded volume (MW) since 2017
    • Volume awarded (MW) by region and technologies since 2017
    • Volume awarded by technologies since 2017
  • 3 Country dashboards* for France, Germany and Italy with:
    • Key figures on the latest reported quarter
    • Volume awarded by technologies since 2018, and planned
    • Cumulated awarded volume by technology since 2015
    • Auction outcomes for installed capacities and average awarded price trend for solar PV, onshore & offshore wind

*Other country dashboards available on request. 

In the dynamic world of renewables, Governments show strong ambitions to fight climate change and lead energy transition via notably Carbon Neutrality pledges by the next decades. These agenda translate into  targets in terms of RES share in national power capacity mix and final consumption to achieve. Thus, staged planning of new RES capacity development or existing RES upgrading are set out by the public authorities to set the course in the national RES strategy.

In the renewable market, public authorities are playing a major role as energy regulator enabling RES technologies to compete with incumbent fossil and nuclear technologies. As recent technologies supported by national energy strategies, RES capacity development has been and is still being subsidised by the Governments. Success in renewables is indissociable from public subsidy policies and remuneration schemes, such as the feed-in-tariffs and feed-in-premiums mechanisms.

Observing the significant fall in RES technologies costs (e.g. LCOE) over the past decade, Governments tend to rely more on market-based support instruments to reduce public-funded subsidies and let market and competition decide on RES prices and related revenues. Thus, Governments with the experience in other infrastructure fields  such as the telecommunications are increasingly implementing competitive bidding procedures or auctions to offer a pre-determined RES volume of which prices are determined from the most competitive bids given by auction’s participants or bidders. RES auctions do not necessary exclude public support policies as the winning bids determine the level of prices often associated with a remuneration scheme, such as a feed-in-premium.