La Unión Española Fotovoltaica (UNEF) celebró el pasado martes 5 de mayo su séptima edición de la iniciativa #DialogosSolaresDesdeCasa impulsada con el comienzo del estado de alarma y que esta ocasión trató sobre la financiación de grandes plantas fotovoltaicas.

El diálogo fue moderado por Santiago Carcar, redactor de La Información, y participaron José Donoso, Director General de UNEF; Roger Font, Director Global de Structured Finance de Banco Sabadell; Ramón Ruiz De La Torre, socio de Ontier; y Joaquín Monfort, CFO de Cox Energy.

En líneas generales, el consenso fue que la conyutura finalizará pronto y, si bien no se cree que se vuelvan a alcanzar los precios anteriores a la crisis, la financiación seguirá llegando a las empresas que apuestan por este sector.

La inversión en energía limpia de América Latina se recuperó durante 2019, aumentando un 54 por ciento en los niveles de 2018 para llegar a 18.1 mil millones de dólares.

The solar industry’s appetite for Brazilian auctions appears to remain undimmed in the new decade, with nearly 30GW in PV bids coming forward for the next renewable tender.

Figures released on Tuesday by energy regulator EPE show PV firms have put forward 794 projects, a 28.66GW pipeline all in all, as they tabled bids for the so-called A-4 renewable tender.

The technology-neutral auction of 28 May 2020 – where PV competes against other renewables for government PPAs – attracted bids of 51GW-plus across all green energy technologies.

Czechia’s deputy prime minister and minister of industry and trade, Karel Havlicek, has announced the country’s renewable energy target has been raised from 20.8% to 22%. Clean energy supplies 15.6% of the nation’s electricity.

Havlicek said solar power would be expected to contribute 1.9 GW of new generation capacity by 2030. Czechia had around 2,080 MW of solar installed at the end of 2019 but of that figure, only 7 MW was added last year and only around 30 MW in the last five years.

The authorities have not spelled out how the raised renewables target could be achieved or whether solar would continue to be excluded from renewable energy capacity auctions.

Ignored potential

“The new targets are certainly a success given that a year ago the Czech ministry did not want to see any significant growth of PV other than a few megawatts in residential PV annually,” Czech trade body Solární Asociace told pv magazine in a statement. “The target, however, still falls short of the technical and economic potential, which could be much higher, between 3 GW and 9 GW until 2030.”

Poland’s grid operator, Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne S.A. (PSE), announced on Twitter on Monday that the country had reached 1.3 GW of cumulative installed PV capacity by the end of 2019.

In the message, written in Polish, PSE said that the country’s total installed PV capacity had reached 1299.6 MW by the end of December, up 175.7% year on year.

By the end of September, the country’s cumulative solar capacity still stood at just 1,007.2 MW, according to PSE. That means that around 293 MW were deployed in Poland in the fourth quarter alone. That exceeds the outlook of the government, which said at the time that it expected around 60 MW of new capacity per month throughout the remainder of 2019, to bring Poland’s cumulative capacity to roughly 1.2 GW by the end of December.

The whole of Europe connected 11GW of solar PV in 2018, up 20% year-on-year from 9.2GW in 2017, according to estimates from trade association SolarPower Europe.

Meanwhile, the European Union deployed roughly 8GW of solar PV in 2018, up an impressive 36% from the 5.9GW installed in the prior year.

Walburga Hemetsberger, CEO of SolarPower Europe, said: “It is good to see Europe fully embracing solar again. With solar being the most popular energy source among EU citizens, the most versatile and often also the lowest cost power generation source, and with cost reductions continuing, we are only at the beginning of a long upward trend for solar in Europe.”

El pasado 6 de agosto de 2018, CENACE publicó las Ofertas de Compra aceptadas para la Cuarta Subasta de Largo Plazo en México, las cuales se resumen en: 1.679 MW de Potencia al año en el Sistema Interconectado Nacional, con un precio anual máximo de $ 930.000 MXN / MW; 5.908 GWh de Energía al año con un precio anual máximo de $ 750 MXN / MWh; y 5.908.000 Certificados de Energías Limpias (CELs), con un precio anual máximo de $ 367 MXN / CEL. 

Energía Aljaval ha participado en la precalificación de aproximadamente 600 MW de proyectos fotovoltaicos propios para esta Cuarta Subasta, que están siendo desarrollados junto con socios españoles y locales.