Tildy Bayar, Decentralized Energy
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Germany has awarded contracts for just under 21 MW in its first tender for ‘innovative combined heat and power (CHP) systems’.
The country’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) said seven bids totalling around 23 MW had been received, but two bids were invalid.
The average price for the winning bids was €0.127/kWh, with the lowest bid coming in at €0.0847/kWh and the highest bid at €0.1094/kWh.
The Bundesnetzagentur defined ‘innovative CHP systems’ as those including a renewable heat source such as solar thermal, geothermal or heat pump.
With the tender, the agency aimed to support plants that would “provide insights for the future role of CHP plants in heat supply” and “enable a learning process”.
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