Portuguese minister of environment and energy transition, João Pedro Matos Fernandes, revealed on Tuesday in parliament the national solar auction set to take place this month has been pushed back to March.
The minister sugared the pill, however, by announcing another large scale solar procurement round would follow by the end of the year.
Matos Fernandes was fielding a question from Portuguese Communist Party deputy Bruno Dias during presentation of the 2020 budget when he replied: “In the first quarter, there will be a new auction to allocate solar power and some of the selected projects may include storage this time.”