Germany’s federal network agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has allocated 2,135MW of PV in the country’s latest ground-mounted solar auction.
The auction closed on 1 July 2026 with 406 bids with a combined capacity of 3,170MW. In total, 261 bids were successful, with average pricing falling slightly on previous tenders.
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“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.”
Pricing in this auction ranged from 4.38-4.97 eurocents per kilowatt (c/kWh). The volume-weighted average price was 4.79c/kWh, slightly lower than the 4.94c/kWh average in the previous auction in May, in which the Bundesnetzagentur awarded 2.3GW of capacity across 268 bids.
The tender before that, in February, was oversubscribed twofold, closing with 634 bids totalling 5,247MW of capacity. The average price for that auction was 5.00 cents/kWh.
In the July auction, the federal state with the most successful bids was Bavaria (429MW, 75 winning bids), followed by Baden-Württemberg (266MW, 41 winning bids), Lower Saxony (225 MW, 28 winning bids), Rhineland-Palatinate (239MW, 25 winning bids) and North Rhine-Westphalia (233 MW, 21 winning bids).
The Bundesnetzagentur’s next auction for ground-mounted solar PV systems will end on 1 December 2026.
