Abbreviated form of legal source(s)
- EEG 2021
- InnAusV 2020
Description of support scheme
The Federal Network Agency conducts innovation tenders for “plant combinations”, i.e., a merger of several electricity generation installations using different renewable energy sources or of electricity generating installations using RES and an adjacent energy storage. At least one installation has to be onshore wind energy or PV. The plant combination has to inject produced electricity into the grid through a single connection point. (§ 39n EEG 2021; §§ 2 and 4 InnAusV 2020).
The tenders take place twice a year, on 1 April and 1 August. The support period is 20 years from the connection to the grid.
Auctioned volume
Installed capacity
Support type
Fixed feed-in premium
In times of negative electricity prices on the spot market, the premium is temporarily reduced to 0 Ct/ KWh (§9 InnAusV 2020).
Addressees
Plant operators operating several plants counting as a plant combination and meeting the technological requirements (§ 13 InnAusV 2020).
Procedure
Awarding is based on price-only criterion. In case of identical price bids, the smaller project with lower capacity is ranked first. Should price and capacity be identical, the ranking is decided by lot (§33 EEG 2020).
Competent authority
The Federal Grid Agency executes and oversees the tendering procedure (§ 11 InnAusV 2020). The Federal Government evaluates the implementation (§ 14 InnAusV 2020).