Japanese officials have proposed curbing biomass power generation capacity in the tender for the country's feed-in-premium scheme for the April 2024-March 2025 fiscal year.
The feed-in-tariff pricing committee under Japan's trade and industry ministry on 16 January proposed cutting the tender capacity to 30MW from 112MW, while giving flexibility to raise the upper limit to 140MW, in case larger projects join the tender.
The proposal came as there has been no bidders since 2021-22 when Oji Green Energy won the tender. The committee said the capacity setting adjustment should urge renewable power developers to participate in the tender and prompt them to compete to develop cost-efficient projects.
The committee also suggested the tender system continue targeting biomass power generation projects with more than 10MW capacity that use solid biomass fuels, as well as those using liquid biomass fuels.
