Ukraine has proposed adding 895MW of solar power by 2025
Ukraine's #energy ministry has proposed auctions of 155 megawatts of new solar capacity next year, followed by 170MW in 2022, 180MW in 2023, 190MW in 2024 and 200MW in 2025.
Once approved by the government, 50 megawatts of solar energy auctions will be held in June, followed by a second round of purchases of 50 megawatts and small arrays of 5 megawatts (generating less than 1 megawatt) in October, the Energy Department said in a report published in the journal #Photovoltaic. A third auction of 50 megawatts will be held in November, wrapping up the 2021 timetable.
The energy ministry's report stresses that solar capacity next year is scheduled to be more than three times the 50 megawatts of new project capacity recommended by Ukraine's State Energy Efficiency and Conservation Agency (SAEE).Ukrenergo, the national transmission system operator, had suggested that the only renewable energy facility to come on stream next year should be 100 megawatts of new hydro, biomass and biogas power generation, according to energy ministry documents.
The report will compare the recommended figures for the next four years with SAEE's recommendations of 80MW, 110MW, 140MW and 170MW of solar capacity, in which Ukrenergo proposes the same solar mix for 2022 as next year, but does not make recommendations related to solar for subsequent years.
The proposed #renewableenergy auction program follows the entry into force in August of Law No. 3658, which reduces the feed-in tariff (FIT) paid under signed contracts.
The price cut for #solarpower plants -- from 2.5 per cent for 1-megawatt plants that come on stream after January 1 --And the array of plants with a megawatt or more that come on stream on January 1 this year and on October 31 -- up to 60 percent -- for plants with a 1-75 megawatt capacity that come on stream after April 1 next year and larger plants that have come on stream since November 1 this year.The FIT will be reduced by 30 per cent for projects from 1 MW to 75 MW that come on stream by the end of March this year.
For older plants operating between July 2015 and the end of last year, projects of more than one megawatt will be cut by 15 per cent, while smaller arrays will be cut by 7.5 per cent.
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