14 winners for France’s Biomass power tender

Ségolène Royal, France's Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, launched in February 2016 a first call for tender for the biomass/biogas sectors over a period of three years in order to give legibility to the industrialists resulting this into the designation of 14 winning projects.

This involves an annual volume of 50 MW of new wood as a feedstock energy installations of more than 300 kW and an annual volume of 10 MW of new biogas-fed facilities of more than 500 kW.

For the first tranche, 41 applications were received for a total power of 156 MW. All of the files submitted were complete and CRE instructed them on the proposed sale price of electricity, quality of supply, energy efficiency and air quality material performance.

On this basis, Ségolène Royal designated 14 winning projects: 12 projects for the wood as a feedstock and 2 biogas-fed projects. They will benefit of an investment of more than €170 million and will produce a total of 480 MWh of renewable electricity per year.

The project carried out by Grenoble Alpes Métropole is the first project that will benefit from the bonus put in place by the Minister in 2016 for all calls for tenders to support structures using participatory investment.

The average price, weighted by the power of the installations, of the winners is €122/MWh over a period of 20 years. A second application period is open: candidates must submit their tender before 1 September 2017.

List of projects selected this year:

Wood as a feedstock installations of less than 3 MW

Wood as a feedstock installations of more than 3 MW

Biogas plants