Greece's energy regulator (RAE) led a seminar on Friday, which presented the regulatory framework of the forthcoming pilot tender for additional solar PV capacity. RAE announced at the seminar that the pilot tender will take place on 12 December 2016. Competition is expected to be tight. RAE said on Friday that there are about 130 MW of PV projects that have already received grid connection licenses over the past few years - this is before Greece suspended the approval process for new PV systems in 2012. Those investors that do not own a grid connection license will still be allowed to compete in the upcoming tender, as long as they provide RAE with the necessary guarantees from a financial institution. As a result of this rule, a further 23 MW of PV projects are expected to participate in the December tender. And there are yet more projects that fall into an entirely separate category, the so-called "fast-track" category, which includes about 350 MW of PV projects that ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...