Spain had a long tradition in supporting electricity from renewable energy sources (RES-E) through a feed-in tariff scheme since the 1990s. However, this came to an end after a moratorium on support for RES-E was passed in 2012. This led to virtually an absence of new RES-E installations being built in the Spanish territory. The new support scheme based on auctions which took place in January 2016 put an end to this moratorium and 700 MW of RES-E were awarded contracts. A further 3000MW were auctioned in May 2017. The aim of this article is to contextualise the choices of design elements used in the first and second auctions for renewable electricity in Spain, considering the international experiences from around the world and to assess such choices as well as the outcomes of both auctions, whose success strongly depends on the design elements being implemented.
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Pablo del Rı́o (2017) studied this question.