tenders and auctions

The Indian Central Electricity Authority has advised state utilities and all renewable energy implementing agencies to co-locate energy storage systems with solar PV in future tenders.

The sixth PPE2 tender for ground-mounted solar ended up slightly oversubscribed as the French government tendered for 925MW of PV capacity.

News round-up of recent tenders globally; Nepal awarded 1GW of solar, Italy 320MW and Bahrain seeks 44MW of PV capacity.

France has awarded 1.5GW of ground-mounted solar PV capacity in its latest auction, concluded this week (26th September).

The Israeli government has published a tender seeking bids for a 100MW solar PV project to be built near the Ashalim settlement, a solar power hub in the country.

The state-owned Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (Masen) has opened the third tender of its solar-plus-storage Noor Midelt project.

The Philippines Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded 1.96GW of solar PV projects in its most recent Green Energy Auction Round (GEA2).

Portugal has updated its national energy and climate plan (NECP) and targets an installed capacity of 20.4GW of solar PV by 2030.

A round-up of the latest news from the floating PV market, including the US' "largest" floating PV plant, Akuo's floating project in France and Portugal's tender for FPV.

The European Commission plans ultimately to run an ‘expression of interest’ call for EU countries every year, which will result in a call for a cross-border tender if there is enough interest from member states and the proposals and desires of the participating countries line up.