The government gives Three more years for renewables to launch renewable parks Once the construction permit is obtained, the current five-year procedures are extended to a maximum of eight years. There is about thousand projects They hope to receive a building permit by the end of January 2024 and will have a new framework to launch their project.
This period is important because if the project owners do not comply with this period, the permits obtained so far will expire and they will have to start the entire administrative process again. The Council of Ministers has approved many extensions in recent years. The last one in June this year was the six-month extension of the deadline for obtaining permits to start construction of new renewable energy sources, which are currently being processed. New permit rush at the beginning of the year by companies.
Specifically, the total of a thousand parks waiting to be built is approximately 68 gigawatts (GW), of which 80% are photovoltaic plants and 20% are wind farms that have received grid access permits since January 1, 2018, which the Government published in June New era according to the numbers. Concentration of so many projects in such a short time making it difficult for national and European factories to meet demand for equipmentIt creates the risk of increasing imports and thus decreasing strategic autonomy. Therefore, the Government changed the administrative processing times, which were introduced in mid-2020, in order to prevent speculation in the sector.
Thus, the period for obtaining the Construction Administrative License for the project is increased by six months, reaching a total of 49 months. Additionally, promoters Extending the period for obtaining Administrative Abuse Permit from five years to a maximum of eight years; It will only be sufficient to state in a binding manner the period in which they expect the facility to be put into service. The maximum total processing time for offshore wind farms and hydroelectric pumping is nine years.
“This change also encourages the orderly inclusion of new installations that increase the visibility of the path to achieving the national clean energy production targets set for 2030 and deliver timely benefits to the entire economy. context of increasing electrification“The Ministry of Ecological Transition explains in its statement.
Renewable auctions
In addition, the Government added to the new decree “Non-economic award criteria with a maximum weight of 30%“In line with the European Wind Energy Package, to seek to increase European production in the upcoming renewable energy auctions compared to imports from third countries. And agreed to allocate 10% of the capacity of network nodes allocated for the transportation of electricity to guarantee the evacuation of surpluses from self-consumption facilities.”