“The results of the tender is signalling 2GW could be contracted annually,” he said during an event organized by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) in Buenos Aires.

Because the first tender of the RenovAr programme, which contracted 1.1GW of renewables (707MW of wind, 400MW of solar PV and the rest in other non-large-hydro renewables), was over-subscribed by six times, the government has decided to contract another 400MW of wind and 200MW of solar this year.

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