RAAEY, the Regulatory Authority for Waste, Energy and Water, is not expected to deliver a clear-cut decision on whether the results of two RES auctions for small-scale PVs of up to 400 KW in the Peloponnese and Crete should be confirmed or annulled, but, instead, will offer a report detailing how these auctions proceeded and what kind of issues arose.

Decisions will then need to be taken at a political level as to whether the results of these RES auctions remain valid.

There have been indications of some issues concerning distribution network operator DEDDIE/HEDNO’s online platform used for these auctions, but, overall, the platform, to which applications were submitted, ran smoothly, according to the authority.

For example, although bidders from abroad were not blocked from participating in these RES auctions, this does not appear to have affected the auctions as, in practice, no bids were lodged from outside Greece.

Also, evidence suggests that robotic software for automated bidding was used. However, any investors who may have employed such a method did not gain an advantage over rival bidders as very few applications appear to have been successfully submitted in such fashion.

It is also important to note that data concerning the platform’s operation for the two auctions is no longer available as it was deleted by the operator three months after the two RES auctions were staged, which makes it impossible to ascertain, with precision, how they fared.