Germany's Federal Network Agency has awarded 587 megawatts of solar and storage capacity in an oversubscribed innovation tender. The agency received 154 bids totaling 1,856 MW, far exceeding the 583 MW initially targeted. Of the submitted proposals, 50 projects were selected.
The majority of bids were for solar systems paired with storage units. For the first time, the tender attracted bids combining wind power and storage, reaching a capacity of 91 MW. However, none of these wind-storage proposals were awarded.
The awarded bids ranged in price from EUR 0.0674 per kWh to EUR 0.0745 per kWh, all below the maximum allowable price of EUR 0.0918. This was lower than the volume-weighted average price of EUR 0.0833 in the previous auction round.
Regionally, Bavaria performed the strongest, with 25 projects selected, contributing 227 MW to the total. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania followed with seven awards totaling 115 MW, and Rhineland-Palatinate received three awards amounting to 57 MW.
In contrast, the biomethane tender saw no awards. Only one bid was submitted, but it was excluded. This follows a pattern of declining interest, with no proposals submitted in earlier auctions this year.
In the previous innovation tender round, Germany selected 512 MW, all focused on solar-plus-storage capacity.
