Offshore Wind Worldwide 2022 edition - Flipbook - Page 91
Offshore Wind Worldwide 2022
years 2021 to 2023, 3 GW in 2024 and 4
GW in 2025. The first Site Development
Plan was published for 2019. The first
update was completed in December 2020,
while (in particular with respect to the
increased development targets) the
procedure for another update was officially
initiated in December 2021.19
4. Site pre-examination
In the next step, a pre-examination of the
sites is performed in order to determine
the suitability of the sites and to provide
bidders with all information required in
order to allow for a competitive
determination of the market premium in
the following tender process. The
competent authority for the preexamination is the Federal Grid Agency
(Bundesnetzagentur – BNetzA); however,
the responsibility can be delegated to the
Federal Maritime and Hydrographic
Agency for the EEZ and to state authorities
for sites within the coastal waters.
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The maximum bid value for the tenders in
the year 2021 and later was capped at the
lowest bid value for which a bid has been
successful in the 2018 tender. Since in the
2018 tender, zero cent bids were
successful, only zero cent bids would have
been eligible for the future tenders. Since
the Offshore Wind Energy Act has not
provided for any bid evaluation criteria
other than the bid value an amendment of
the tendering rules was necessary. The
first bill for the 2020 reform of the
Offshore Wind Energy Act included a
“dynamic” tendering/auction for the
determination of the successful bid out of
more than one zero cent bids. It was
foreseen that the bidder offering the
highest amount per MW, i.e. a “payback”,
would win. However, this concept of an
“offshore grid connection fee” was subject
to a lot of criticism and has not been
implemented in the final bill. Instead, if
there are now more than one zero cent bids
for a project the successful bidder will be
chosen by lot.
5. Tender process
As a last step, a competitive tender process
is conducted in order to determine the
entitlement to claim payments under the
Renewable Energies Act and the applicable
value for the respective OWTGs. The
German Federal Grid Agency is the
competent authority for the tender
process. In principle, the tender process is
designed in a way that the bidder offering
the lowest bid value receives the award.
19 Information regarding updates of the Site Development Plan are available at https://www.bsh.de/DE/THEMEN/Offshore/
Meeresfachplanung/Flaechenentwicklungsplan/flaechenentwicklungsplan_node.html.