Annual bidding is invited “for sale of power through open access/captive/bi-lateral third party sale/merchant sale”, said the statement, after which a project capacity of 5GW will be bid out every year for a period of five years.

The Department of the Interior has announced results from its wind energy auction in the Carolina Long Bay area, the second major offshore wind lease sale this year.

Turkey held an auction for 300 MW in solar power within its YEKA GES-4 round of 1 GW in total. The competition for three lots in the Niğde province of 100 MW each resulted in the lowest price of EUR 23.3 per MWh, bid by Smart Güneş Teknolojileri.