The energy ministry plans to offer fixed tariffs, at RES auctions as of 2024, as an incentive to investors behind RES projects accepting increased grid injection limitations or an obligation to incorporate batteries, measures that would save grid capacity.

Deputy energy minister Alexandra Sdoukou announced this plan at a three-day energy conference, “Energy Security and Green Growth”, organized by the energy ministry.

A grid injection limitation of 50 percent of RES output is expected to be imposed on RES projects as a prerequisite for fixed tariffs. It remains unclear if the auctions offering these fixed tariffs will be technology-specific or mixed. According to energypress sources, the new auctions could only concern photovoltaics. Also the ministry is believed to be considering to offer a total capacity of 2 GW for fixed tariffs, though this, too, remains unfinalized.

Existing legislation covering RES auctions will need to be amended to facilitate the ministry’s fixed-tariffs plan.