The first midterm auction is generating considerable expectations at a time when the third long-term electricity auction confirmed an aggressive downward trend in the prices offered. Financing appetite is impaired when renewable energy projects reach such low prices. The midterm electricity auction presents an opportunity where, by modifying the structural and commercial conditions on the supply side, it could pique the interest of private banking and investment funds in a system so far led by development and multilateral banking. This first edition will be decisive to determine the parameters under which private banks can consider the risk acceptable.