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New support scheme for renewable energy sources in Poland – results of first auction published

5 January 2017

The first pilot auction to support renewable energy projects, scheduled for the end of December 2016, was successfully concluded. Despite controversies caused by technical problems with access to the electronic auction platform, which were to prevent some investors from submitting bids, and in spite of rumours that the auction could be invalidated, on 3 January 2017 the President of the ERO has published the results of 3 successfully completed auctions. As a result of these auctions, support will be given to over 80 new small RES installations (≤1MW), whilst over 50 existing small installations (≤1MW) will migrate from the green certificates scheme to the scheme based on the guaranteed off-take of energy at the auction price

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