Germany’s Federal Community Company (BNetzA) has launched a young for 3 centrally pre-investigated areas within the North Sea with a mixed offshore wind offshore wind capability of 5.5 GW.
The three websites, with a mixed 5,500 MW of projected producing capability, are located about 110 kilometres northwest of Borkum Island, bordering the Netherlands’ unique financial zone.
Bids should be submitted by 1 August 2024. The profitable bidders will obtain the precise to use for planning approval from the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Company (BSH) to construct an offshore wind farm on the location. As well as, they are going to be entitled to have the deliberate wind farm linked to the electrical energy grid to move the facility generated offshore.
BSH has carried out a preliminary investigation of the websites N-9.1, N-9.2, and N-9.3 on behalf of the BNetzA, overlaying key info such because the marine setting, the constructing floor, and the wind and oceanographic circumstances.
This info shall be offered to all events in the midst of the public sale, stated BNetzA. Profitable bidders now not have to hold out these investigations themselves, not like within the case of areas that haven’t been centrally pre-examined, in line with the Company.
The award shall be based mostly on a legally prescribed factors system, as was achieved for the primary time final yr. As much as 60 factors shall be awarded for the bid worth, which displays the bidder’s willingness to pay.
As well as, the so-called qualitative standards shall be utilized, stated BNetzA.
The Company additionally added that it’ll consider the proportion of electrical energy used from renewable power sources within the manufacturing of wind generators, the proportion of trainees, using significantly environmentally pleasant basis strategies, and the extent of long-term electrical energy provides to 3rd events.
A complete of as much as 35 factors shall be awarded for the qualitative standards, with 90 per cent of the profitable bidder’s funds going in the direction of decreasing electrical energy prices.
The final auctions of centrally pre-investigated websites in 2023 have been for a mixed 1,800 MW and resulted in complete proceeds of EUR 784 million.
In addition to the auctions introduced at present on 28 February, the Federal Community Company additionally launched a young for two.5 GW of offshore wind capability in January on areas that haven’t been centrally pre-examined. The bids should be submitted by 1 June 2024.
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