The increased investment interest for new RES projects, at least at the business plan level, is confirmed by the latest estimates of DAPEEP for the penetration of green energy in the new year, as reflected in the ELAPE bulletin for the months August-October 2020 published yesterday.
In particular, the penetration hypothesis for the year 2021 is 1,849 MW and the penetration distribution is 640 MW for wind, 912 MW for photovoltaics, 10 MW for MUS, 15 MW for biomass projects and 2 MW for SITHYA. The rate and evolution of the penetration are recorded in the table below from the bulletin.
SEDP projects
It is interesting to look at the development of the projects with differential amplification contracts (SDPs) in the period January – October 2020, based on the available data.
In terms of installed capacity, wind farms from 683 in January were found at 1084.26 MW ten months later, while we have more than doubled for the photovoltaic category from 122.65MW to 184.61MW. A similar upward picture is presented by the other technologies, ie, small hydroelectric power plants, biogas-biomass projects and SITHYA. For the period January – October 2020, the installed power and energy production (GWh) for all technologies of units with SEDP amounts to 1484.25 MW and 2098.44 GWh.
In September 2020 in the Interconnected System, out of 13,934 active contracts, 362 are contracts for differential amplification and represent a power of 1.40 GW, production of 0.329 TWh and a net value of 17.13 million euros and an average price of € 52.01 / MWh.
According to the DAPEEP bulletin, in August 2020 121 new MW were connected, of which 115 with SEDP and in September 2020 71 new MW were connected, of which 66 with SEDP.
It is reminded, finally, that the stations with SEDP contract, are the RES and SITHYA production stations, which are selected through a competitive bidding process, are included in a support scheme in the form of operating aid and conclude Operational Support Boards for Differential Power SITHYA (SEDP).
