Lifecycle
- Effective
- Last change
Country / jurisdiction: Russian Federation · Year: 2013 · Status: In force · Level: National · Type: Voluntary
The Decree No. 449 established mechanism supports renewable electricity deployment through capacity markets. Selected renewable power projects receive capacity payments for a period of 15 years for maintaining readiness to generate electricity on demand. In the case when power plants will not be able to meet previously agreed availability requirements, their capacity remuneration levels will be reduced accordingly.
Auctions are being held on an annual basis to award these capacity remuneration contracts. For now, only wind, solar PV and small hydropower plants are eligible to participate and biomass is excluded from the support.
In order to be eligible to participate in the auctions, proposed projects must be equal to or exceed 5 MW; hydropower plants cannot be larger than 25 MW.
Contracts are awarded to projects with the lowest capital costs. Eligible proposals also have to comply with high local content requirements:
Minimum local content requirement
Year
Wind farms over 5 MW:
35%
2014
55%
2015
65%
2016-2020
Solar PV over 5 MW:
50%
2014 to 2015
70%
2016 -2020
Small hydro over 5 MW:
20%
2014 to 2015
45%
2016-2017
65%
2018-2020
Projects selected through the auction system are to sign “Agreements for the Supply of Capacity” where the price level of RES capacity and the duration of capacity supply are specified. As mentioned above, the price for the RES capacity can be lowered in cases when the plant is unable to provide agreed power capacity.
The Decree No. 449 and the Art. 32 of the Federal Electricity Law guarantee priority purchase for the renewable power.
In order to control the increase of newly added renewable generation capacities, and thus the mechanism’s impact on electricity prices and the costs of the mechanism, the Resolution No. 861 of May 2013 has been adopted. The Resolution established yearly limits for new renewable generation capacity up to 2020 (expressed in MW):
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2014 - 2020
Wind
100
250
250
500
750
750
1 000
3600
Solar
120
140
200
250
270
270
270
1520
Small hydro
18
26
124
124
141
159
159
751
Total
238
416
574
874
1 161
1 179
1 429
5 871
The first auctions were held in September 2013. The second round of auctions took place in June 2014.
Results of the renewable energy capacity tenders in Russia:
Tender round
Year held
Results announced
Renewable technology
Capacity open for bidders (MW)
Awarded capacity (MW)
Deadline by which projects must be commissioned
First
September 2013
October 2013
Total
504
End of 2017
Solar PV
700
339
Wind
1100
110
Second
Mai 2014
June 2014
Total
576.6
End of 2018
Solar PV
505
Wind
1160
51
Small Hydro
415
20.6
Source
https://www.iea.org/policies/5510Canonical document at the regulator. Always cite this URL — not the Vantage detail page — in compliance evidence.