Second METÁR Tender Expected In July

July 2020 – On 18 June 2020 the Hungarian Ministry of Innovation and Technology (“Ministry”) announced that the Ministry requested the Hungarian Energy and Public Utility Regulatory Authority (“HEPURA”) to launch the second public tender procedure under the Hungarian Renewable Energy Support Scheme (“METÁR”). The actual launch of the second METÁR tender is expected in July 2020.

According to the Ministry's announcement, the total amount of subsidy to be distributed under the second METÁR tender is HUF 800 million per year and the limit for the distributed capacity rights will be 390 GWh/year.

The bidders will be entitled to apply for subsidies in the following categories:

• by power plants below 1 MW capacity, where the limit for the distributed capacity is 40 GWh/year (“Small Category”)