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“Hors Catégorie” – French Mega Offshore Wind Auction Coming Up
France's latest offshore wind tender presents an unprecedented challenge in auction design, offering 10 GW across fixed-bottom and floating projects with complex allocation rules that could reshape competitive dynamics. The sophisticated mechanism combines capacity caps, average price thresholds, and cascading relinquishment procedures that force bidders to strategize across multiple sites simultaneously rather than optimizing individual bids in isolation.
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