Germany's Bundesnetzagentur has announced the results of the auction that closed for bids on 1 July 2026 for ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) installations and solar installations on a structure that is neither a building nor a noise barrier.
The auction was again oversubscribed,
said Klaus Müller, President of the Bundesnetzagentur. The prices of the successful bids were slightly lower than in the previous auction.
The auction was for a volume of 2,135 megawatts (MW). A total of 401 bids with a combined volume of 3,170 MW were submitted. The Bundesnetzagentur disqualified 48 bids from the auction.
A total of 261 bids were successful. The prices of the successful bids in the pay-as-bid auction ranged from 4.38 cents per kilowatt hour (ct/kWh) to 4.97 ct/kWh. The volume-weighted average award price was 4.79 ct/kWh, which was lower than that in the previous round (4.94 ct/kWh).
The federal state with the most successful bids was Bavaria (429 MW, 75 winning bids), followed by Baden-Württemberg (266 MW, 41 winning bids), Lower Saxony (225 MW, 28 winning bids), Rhineland-Palatinate (239 MW, 25 winning bids) and North Rhine-Westphalia (233 MW, 21 winning bids).
Further information
More information about the auction is available on the Bundesnetzagentur’s website (in German) at www.bundesnetzagentur.de/1107454.
The next auction for ground-mounted solar PV systems will end on 1 December 2026.
Source: Bundesnetzagentur
