German innovation tender four times oversubscribed, 29 PV+BESS projects awarded

Germany’s most recent innovation tender, which closed on May 1, saw a record level of oversubscription. The Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) received 158 bids totaling 2,020 MW — more than four times the 486 MW that was up for procurement, primarily from renewable energy projects with integrated energy storage systems.

The agency awarded 29 contracts, all of which went to combined photovoltaic and storage projects — the only configuration submitted in this round. A total of 56 bids were excluded due to formal errors, according to the agency.

The successful bids ranged from €0.0500 to €0.0639 per kWh. The volume-weighted average award price came in at €0.0615/kWh, significantly below the ceiling price of €0.09/kWh and also below the previous round’s average of €0.0709/kWh (held in autumn 2024).

Bavaria led the results with 12 awarded projects totaling 137 MW. Saxony-Anhalt followed with five projects amounting to 124 MW. Lower saxony secured two projects with a combined capacity of 49 MW.

The next innovation tender is scheduled for September 1, with a nearly identical procurement volume of 485.713 MW.

The onshore wind power tender that also closed on May 1 was likewise heavily oversubscribed. The Federal Network Agency received 568 bids totaling 4,972 MW, ultimately awarding 372 contracts for 3,447 MW.

The volume-weighted average award price dropped again, reaching €0.0683/kWh, down from the previous peak of €0.0735/kWh. Most awards went to North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony, which together accounted for more than 200 awarded wind projects with a combined capacity of nearly 2,000 MW.

From pv magazine Germany