German administrators continue to grapple with the future of its renewable energy landscape, with the latest document pushing forward the concept of tenders for project development. Germany's first large scale solar tender, held earlier this year, will see 25 PV power plants with a combined capacity of around 150 MW developed. The average successful tenders had a capacity of 6.3 MW, and will receive a feed-in rate of €0.0917. A hearing by Germany's BMWi continued the process today, delivering a proposal as to how to extend the tender process and take it forward. The BMWi delivered a proposal paper in Berlin today, in which it outlines the intention to hold separate tenders for various renewable technologies and applications. Large commercial solar rooftops look set to have their own tender under the new proposal. The BMWi "key points" paper highlighted its goal as being to "determine the level of financial support for electricity from renewable sources, from 2016, in a competitive manner." Tenders under the program are defined by the BMWi as being "an objective, transparent and non-biased procedure to determine the level of financial ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...