Synthesis report on main trends, experiences and lessons learnt from renewable energy auctions in eight EU and four non-EU countries.
There has been a revived interested in RES auctions in Europe, as a market mechanism that allows for the control of supportJust like administratively set support, auction-allocated su... costs and RES volume deployment. More importantly, the European Commission State Aid Guidelines for Environmental Protection and Energy 2014-2020, state that by January 2017 all Member States seeking state-aid clearance shall set up competitive bidding process to grant supportJust like administratively set support, auction-allocated su... to all new installations, with only very few exceptions. As of March 2016, eight Member States had introduced auctionAn auction is a market mechanism with the aims of allocating... schemes for at least some technologies, with another seven considering their introduction before 2020.
This report synthesizes the findings of Work Package 4 (WP4) of the AURES project. The report presents the main trends in auctionAn auction is a market mechanism with the aims of allocating... design in eight EU and four non-EU countries, assesses their performance against four criteria, and derives lessons that will serve as input for the formulation of specific recommendations in later work packages. Statements made about these countries are limited to the scope defined in each of the case studies.
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