The Dutch government recently has proposed to increase the budget in renewable energy project by 33%. It is reported that this is the government in 2020 to achieve its goal of reducing emissions of the case of the recovery attempt. The country's renewable energy support plan next year SDE + budget is expected to reach nearly 6 billion euros, covering wind power, photovoltaic and other fields.
Dutch government will continue to implement renewable energy subsidies (SDE +)
In 2015, the Dutch government was severely criticized, because a review of the report in 2014 revealed that only a small part of the country's energy structure from the source of renewable energy. In stark contrast, the power station coal volume record highs.
Coincidentally, in June the same year, the Dutch law enforcement agencies found that their government has also fulfilled the "Kyoto Protocol" agreed to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases caused by the commitment to discount, and therefore require it by 2020, And gradually reduce emission by 25% on the basis of 1990 emission reductions.
According to a survey, the reason why the Government of the Netherlands in 2006 to 2013 between the full implementation of emission reduction targets because subsidies are unstable, resulting in less environmental spending, the problem escalating.
In view of this, the country's economic minister Hankel Camp in a recent letter to the parliament said that the current renewable energy is the steady development of the Netherlands, SDE + this year, the number of applications is also further growth. Next year the program is budgeted at € 6 billion for wind, solar, geothermal, hydro and biomass projects.
The SDE + program is designed to encourage companies to produce more renewable energy at the lowest possible cost, and to adopt the principle of subsidizing projects that apply for a minimum subsidy to drive innovation and reduce costs. Since the implementation of the SDE + program, solar and wind energy costs fell the most.
Offshore wind power has become an important push to achieve emission reduction targets
In order to meet the emission reduction commitments at an early date, the Dutch government plans to achieve a 14% share of renewable energy by 2020 and a target of 16% by 2023, with offshore wind power (not covered by the SDE + program) as an important means to achieve the above objectives .
According to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) report, in 2015, the country and the network of 60 offshore wind turbine, installed capacity of 18 million kilowatts, the cumulative installed capacity of 427,000 kilowatts, is already the world's sixth largest offshore wind power market .
Not only that, the country has also developed plans to expand offshore wind power capacity to 3.5 GW by 2023.
It is noteworthy that in March this year, the Dutch House of Lords approved a law to allow the Government to implement a round of offshore wind power bidding. The law is an amendment to the Electricity Act, which allows transmission operator TenneT to begin building a grid infrastructure for the country's off-shore and new wind farms located in the Borcela region.
The industry pointed out that the Dutch offshore wind power development is the biggest challenge is to ensure that the already planned offshore wind power bids can be implemented in a smooth and orderly manner. It is reported that the country's first round of bidding has been launched this spring, the second round will be carried out before the end of 2016. In addition, there are 1.4 million kilowatts of capacity plan will be auctioned.
The industry expects to reduce its offshore wind power costs by 40% over the next five years. In the long term, the realization of the goal in 2023, the North Sea in the Netherlands to further develop large-scale offshore wind power great potential. Among them, IImuidenVer the designated area can accommodate 6 million kilowatts of offshore wind power development scale.
In addition, according to the Dutch government energy-related planning, by 2030, the country's offshore wind power installed capacity will reach 4450 MW, when the government subsidies to the wind power industry will reach nearly 18 billion euros. Hanker Camp said that with the cost of offshore wind power declining year by year, the amount of subsidies is expected to be reduced to 10 billion euros from top to bottom.
PV market showed solid growth momentum
Offshore wind power is only the Netherlands to accelerate its energy transformation in a microcosm. The PV market in recent years, the achievements of the same remarkable. According to the Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the latest survey results, as of the end of last year, the country's total installed capacity of PV 1485 MW.
In this year's SDE + Fall Tournament, € 5 billion has been invested in renewable energy projects, of which about 2.439 GW of solar energy projects have applied for SDE + subsidies in recent bidding contests.
It is reported that in the past three years, despite the Dutch large-scale PV market showed solid growth momentum, but the bidding project compared with the same period has been greatly reduced, but this situation may be with the latest round of SDE + bidding program baked and change .
In this regard, industry analysts pointed out that, although all this indicates that the large-scale photovoltaic market in the Netherlands will usher in the booming, but the project funding difficulties, and SDE + bid is very low lead to market suspicion of the feasibility of its program, can not help but worry about many successful The subject will not be the final landing.
"SDE + is a bidding system, and many companies and administrations have a very low cost to apply for SDE +, so the project can never be turned into a normal profit program." Cesvande Verken, the solar distributor's Profinrg director (see "Werken") , The government subsidizes SDE + for 15 years, the project can sell electricity in the wholesale electricity market until the SDE + funding period, the wholesale price is the only source of income for the project, unless the PPA (Solar Purchase Agreement) to develop it.
Werken further said: "The government has been operating the project with a wholesale price of around € 0.045 / kWh, but in reality they may get a wholesale price of € 0.03 or € 0.035 / kWh." Large floor projects without on-site operating losses Which is worse than the profitability of projects that need to be used in the field. "This change also marks a big question mark on the profitability of the winning projects in the new round of SDE + bidding.
"What you're seeing now, companies that really want to have a solar installation on their rooftop, have signed a deal with SDE + to get some subsidies," says Frank Heijckmann, the head of the project's developer, KiesZon ("Heijckmann" 0.105 euros per kilowatt-hour agreement, but the need for more subsidies to large projects will not receive any subsidies, and will have to wait until the spring of next year to begin implementation.
It is noteworthy that the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the country came a number of positive signals, that this year's bidding for solar energy projects prepared, but Heijckmann is not very optimistic. "There are a lot of hope now, but we've been looking forward to it for two years, and there is still no reasonable subsidy, and many of the 883 MW PV projects in the 2014 SDE + bidding competition have been successful," he said. , Only about 20% of these projects have actually been installed.