subsidy

  • Low carbon generation

    Pixie Chart of the week | Germany demonstrates benefit of auction system

    Germany regularly runs auctions to subsidise renewable generation capacity. In 2020, it plans to run 20 auctions – seven solar, seven onshore wind, three biomass and three mixed wind and solar – as well as six for CHP engines, seeking nearly 7GW of capacity in total. The auctions set a...

  • Low carbon generation

    Pixie Chart of the week | New Italian renewable subsidies awarded

    Results of the first auction under the new Italian renewables subsidy were announced on 28 January by GSE, the country’s energy agency. The format of the auction provides top-up premia for generators, with developers bidding reductions of between 2% to 70% against a reference price of €70/MWh (£59.40/MWh). This was...

  • Low carbon generation

    Pixie Chart of the week | Community energy in 2018: mixed messages

    Community Energy England (CEE), a not-for-profit organisation which is the voice of the community energy sector, launched its State of the Sector 2019 report at an event on 22 June, coinciding with the start of community energy fortnight. Our chart this week illustrates that communities raised £2.3mn in development funding and £40mn...

  • Energy storage and flexibility

    Pixie Chart of the week | Identifying the optimum subsidy for microgrids

    In this week's Pixie Chart of the week, we explore a recent study by researchers from the School of Economics and Business Administration at Chongqing University, China. They have identified the optimum coefficient for a government subsidy to rationalise the investment in microgrids, and an increase in the subsidy coefficient leads to greater profits for both...

  • Commercial and market outlook

    Pixie Chart of the week | CARES Publishes Financial Analysis for Renewables Projects

    In this week’s Pixie Chart of the week, following the closure of the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) scheme to new generation on 31 March 2019, Community and Renewable Energy Scotland (CARES) has produced guidelines to help assess returns for investment in small-scale renewable energy. The CARES Project Viability Modelling Post Feed-in Tariff investigates the economic...

  • Low carbon generation

    Chart of the week | The policy gap – can it be met by subsidy-free renewables?

    New renewables capacity deployment in the UK is likely to slow with the closure of the Renewables Obligation (RO) and Feed-in Tariff (FiT) schemes. This is against a backdrop of the CCC's warning the fourth and fifth carbon budgets will be missed. All while “subsidy-free” renewables struggle to gain traction...

  • Low carbon generation

    Chart of the week | Subsidy-free renewables: myth to reality?

    The development of new renewables faces what would once have seemed an existential challenge – a distinct lack of available subsidies. However, we know subsidy-free renewables projects are slowly coming to fruition, particularly for solar. In this week's Chart of the week, we take a look at the value that...