Applications for wind power projects can be submitted from Friday, September 4, through October 30, after the Hungarian Energy and Public Utility Regulatory Authority (MEKH) announced the tender. The initiative, which several members of the TISZA government had promoted with considerable enthusiasm, now appears less appealing even to supporters of wind power, Magyar Nemzet reports.
Under the current tender rules, new wind turbines can be connected to the grid for two years starting September 30, 2030, with a total available capacity of 702 MVA, equivalent to about 700 MW.
However, an industry representative who spoke anonymously to Portfolio said the final tender conditions were concerning. The draft presented over the summer was changed in ways that have expanded investors’ obligations and could reduce the advantages of developers who are better prepared.
The available grid connection points and capacities were also not selected based on where wind farms would be economically viable or technically feasible, but solely on where spare grid capacity was available.
The capacity currently on offer is concentrated in Transdanubia and the southern metropolitan area around Budapest, while the eastern half of the country has been left out entirely.
Although the tender may appear to offer significant opportunities for wind farm construction in areas such as Ócsa, developing projects there in practice may prove difficult. Under current regulations, wind turbines cannot be built within a 700-meter-wide buffer zone measured from the boundary of designated buildable areas. This is particularly significant because the area is densely populated and lies close to a protected landscape, which presents another obstacle. The industry representative said
it is unclear how the estimated 36 to 51 wind turbines could fit into the area.
Two entirely new evaluation criteria were also unexpectedly added to the tender. One is a one-time, capacity-based financial contribution to municipalities affected by the construction of a wind farm. The other is an annual contribution tied to the amount of electricity fed into the grid. Taken together, the financial burdens on investors could be high enough to discourage them from pursuing their projects.
The tender also includes a 25 percent purchase option requiring bidders to make such an arrangement available to renewable energy communities. However, it remains unclear where those communities would obtain the capital needed to finance either the purchase price or one-quarter of the additional capital required for the project.
The initiative may sound politically appealing, but its practical benefits are highly questionable.
Another new criterion awards points to bidders that source 80 percent of the products and equipment needed to build the power plant from suppliers based within the European Union. However, the requirement could easily be circumvented.
A major change is that project readiness has been removed from the evaluation criteria. Yet establishing a wind measurement dataset takes at least one year, and more typically two, while bird and bat surveys can also take several years. Investors have less than six years to complete their projects. Concerns have also been raised that some applicants could seek grid connection rights without actually intending to build the projects, planning instead to resell those rights later.
Via Magyar Nemzet, Portfolio; Featured image: Pexels
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