Germany's Bundesnetzagentur has awarded 261 bids from 401 submissions totaling 3.17 GW in the July 1, 2026 auction
Bavaria secured the largest awarded capacity at 429 MW, followed by Baden-Württemberg at 266 MW and Rhineland-Palatinate at 239 MW
The next auction for this solar category will be conducted on December 1, 2026
Germany’s July 1, 2026 solar PV tender for ground-mounted PV systems and solar installations built on structures that are not buildings nor noise barriers concluded with the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur or BNetzA) awarding 2.135 GW capacity.
This auction round was oversubscribed as the agency received 401 bids with a combined 3.17 GW capacity as against the tendered 2.135 GW. It had launched the call in May 2026 (see Germany Launches New 2.13 GW Solar Tender Round).
Klaus Müller, President of the Federal Network Agency, shared that the winning bids fell slightly compared to the previous round.
The lowest and highest winning bids in the latest auction were €0.0438/kWh and €0.0497/kWh, respectively. The weighted average winning bid of €0.0479/kWh was lower than €0.0494/kWh reported for the previous round that closed on March 1, 2026.
The largest volume of projects representing a combined 429 MW was awarded to sites in Bavaria, followed by 266 MW in Baden-Württemberg and 239 MW in Rhineland-Palatinate, among others.
Bundesnetzagentur also clarified that it is not currently levying any capacity-based network charges on participants in the tender. The clarification comes as Germany is reviewing its electricity network charging system under the draft General Network Charges System for Electricity (AgNes) process.
In its proposal published in May, the regulator envisaged that new power generation systems could face an annual capacity-based grid charge from 2029, while existing plants would generally be exempt for 20 years (see Solar, Storage Stakeholders Differ On Germany’s Grid Overhaul).
For 2026, Bundesnetzagentur is mandated to tender 9.9 GW of ground-mounted solar capacity, divided across three rounds. It will hold the next tender round for this category on December 1, 2026.
