Featured in The fertile solar crescent – 01-2018

€3/MWh is a crowd

French tender model: Crowdfunding is raising unexpected interest in France’s solar energy sector, as the local government last year introduced an additional incentive for tendered projects partly financed through crowdfunding. Although €3/MWh may seem a negligible sum, the bonus is attracting several developers and investors, as also in the booming French market price pressure is becoming stronger.

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Emiliano Bellini

16 Jan 2018

France’s tendering mechanism includes an additional tariff of €3/MWh for projects where part of the financing is covered using crowdfunding.

France’s former Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy Ségolène Royal, just a few months before stepping down last year, launched a new series of tenders for both large-scale and small-sized PV projects, which were expected, at the time, to bring online around 4 GW of additional PV capacity over the following three years.By launching …

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