{"id":1753,"date":"2026-04-02T11:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/1753\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:21:06","slug":"germany-awards-155mw-of-rooftop-solar-in-latest-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/1753\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany awards 155MW of rooftop solar in latest tender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The price of the winning bids ranged from 7.88 euro cents\/kWh (US dollar cents 9.08\/kWh) to 10 euro cents\/kWh, with a volume-weighted average winning bid of 9.56 euro cents\/kWh. This is slightly lower than the average price of winning bids of the October 2025 round, which reached 9.66 euro cents\/kWh, but more than 2 euro cents\/kWh higher than the maximum bid price set for a separate innovation tender, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-tech.org\/germany-launches-tender-475mw-solar-pv-capacity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">launched earlier this week by the Federal Network Agency<\/a>. That tender, which seeks to award 475MW of new solar PV capacity, largely focuses on smaller utility-scale deployments.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of winning bids in this week\u2019s rooftop PV tender were in the North Rhine-Westphalia region, which saw 24 winning bids for 50MW of capacity, followed by Lower Saxony with 12 awards for 17MW and Brandenburg with nine awards for 17MW.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of this tender follows the completion of an earlier tender in February, which awarded 2.4GW of ground-mount capacity from a total bidding pool of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-tech.org\/germany-contracts-2-4gw-of-ground-mount-solar-capacity-in-2x-oversubscribed-auction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">5.2GW<\/a>. Germany has long been a leader in Europe\u2019s renewable energy auction space, having awarded 25GW of capacity through auctions as of the end of 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-tech.org\/eu-awards-record-25-2gw-new-solar-pv-capacity-government-auctions-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to SolarPower Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s tender also coincides with the completion of a separate tender for the onshore wind sector, with bids for 7.9GW of capacity and 3.4GW awarded.<\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s leading renewable energy financiers will meet in London for the fifth edition of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/renewablerevenue.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Renewables Procurement &amp; Revenue Summit<\/a>, held on 20-21 May by PV Tech publisher Solar Media. Information about the event, including the full agenda and options to purchase tickets are available on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/renewablerevenue.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The price of the winning bids ranged from 7.88 euro cents\/kWh (US dollar cents 9.08\/kWh) to 10 euro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[663,151,5,1717,1718,667],"class_list":{"0":"post-1753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-auctions","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-rooftop-solar","12":"tag-solarpluseu","13":"tag-tenders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}