From pv magazine Germany
Germany's Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has published the results of the country's seventh tender for rooftop PV projects ranging in size from 300 kW to 1 MW.
The agency reviewed 194 bids with a total capacity of 278 MW and selected 125 projects, totaling 264.1 MW. The final prices ranged between €0.0690/kWh and €0.0948/kWh. The final average price was €0.0892/kWh.
Most of the selected projects are located in Lower Saxony (58 MW), North Rhine-Westphalia (45 MW), Bavaria (27 MW), Rhineland-Palatinate (27 MW) and Hesse (26 MW).
In the sixth tender, held in July 2023, the Bundesnetzagentur allocated 191 MW at an average price of €0.1018/kWh. In the fifth tender, held in March 2023, the German authorities reviewed 213 MW of bids and selected 195 MW of projects. The final prices ranged between €0.0900/kWh and €0.1125/kWh. The final average price was €0.1087/kWh.
In the fourth tender in August 2022, the Bundesnetagentur allocated 201 MW of capacity, with final prices ranging between €0.0820/kWh and €0.0891/kWh. The final average price was €0.084. The third tender, in May 2022, achieved final prices of €0.07/kWh to €0.0891/kWh.
In the second PV tender in January 2022, the Bundesnetagentur reviewed 209 bids with a total capacity of 233 MW. It selected 136 projects, totaling 154MW. The final prices ranged between €0.0570/kWh and €0.0828/kWh. The final average price was €0.0743/kWh.
In the first solar tender in July 2021, the agency received 168 bids with a combined capacity of 213 MW. It selected 114 projects, totaling 152 MW. The final prices ranged between €0.0535/kWh and €0.0789/kWh. The final average price was €0.0688/kWh.
*The article was amended on March 13 to reflect that the tender was open to projects with a capacity of up to 1 MW, and not 750 kW, as we previously reported.
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