Offshore Wind Worldwide 2022 edition - Flipbook - Page 71
Offshore Wind Worldwide 2022
Official Journal of the European Union.
Then, it prequalifies candidates that will be
able to participate in the dialogue itself on
the basis of their technical and financial
capacities. The Minister in charge of energy
discusses with the prequalified candidates in
order to define or develop solutions to meet
its needs and prepare the detailed tender
specifications. Candidates are invited to
submit their bids on the final version of
specifications drafted by the Minister, which
contains detailed information, including the
detailed award criteria. After the offers have
been analysed by the CRE, the Minister in
charge of energy selects the winning
bidder(s) on the basis of these criteria.13
This procedure aims to reduce costs and
secure the projects, because the dialogue
should help the candidates to adapt their
proposals, and the studies made upstream
for the award of the projects help them to
take into account environmental risks with a
higher degree of accuracy than before. A
competitive dialogue has also been used to
award in early 2019 the Dunkirk OWF
project (third set of French OWF projects),
launched in 2016.
In this tender, the evaluation criteria were
electricity purchase price and strength of the
financial plan (80%) and inclusion of
environmental stakes and optimisation of
the area (20%).
Since 2017, the law expressly states that the
price criterion’s weight in public tenders
(classic calls for tender as well as competitive
13 Article R.311-25-1 and following of the Energy Code.
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dialogues) has to represent more than half of
the whole criteria’s weight.14
The documents of the competitive dialogue
of the fourth round (attribution of 1 GW in
Normandy), which is under process, state
that the criteria are, in this order: (i) the
economic and financial value of the offer,
including the proposed price (ii) the
inclusion of the environmental issues and
(iii) the inclusion of the social and territorial
development issues. However, the
ponderation of these criteria will be fixed at
the end of the dialogue.
Concerning the fifth round (attribution of
250 MW for a floating wind farm in South
Brittany), the criteria are the same but in a
different order ((i) the economic and
financial value of the offer, including the
proposed price, (ii) the inclusion of the social
and territorial development issues and (iii)
the inclusion of the environmental issues)
and will also be weighted at the end of the
competitive dialogue.
C. Incentives for investments
For offshore wind installations implemented
through a tender process, the producer/
operator benefits from an advantageous
system for selling the electricity it produces.
He will indeed sell the electricity at a fixed
price or a fixed reference tariff that it would
have determined in its offer during the
tender process (see section IV.A. below for
more information on price fixing modalities).
Besides, the producer/operator is protected
in case of project delays through the