Germany’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has invited bids for 2.32 GW of solar projects.

Bids must be submitted by December 1, 2025.

The tender volume of 2.32 GW represents the total capacity for which financial support under the EEG will be made available.

The annual tender volume for 2025 amounts to 9,900 MW, evenly distributed over the three scheduled bidding dates of the year.

The tariff ceiling for this round is set at €0.068/kWh (~$0.079/kWh). The tender falls under the ‘Solar Package 1’ framework.

However, several provisions of the package are pending approval by the European Commission under state aid law. Specifically, the approval is still pending for three key provisions. First, the increase in the maximum bid quantity per bid to 50 MW introduced by Solar Package I has not received approval. Second, the increased maximum value for special solar installations, such as high-elevated agri-PV and peatland systems, and third, the special award procedure with quota-based priority allocation for such installations, also await approval.

In August, Germany awarded 486 MW of solar plus storage projects under its innovation auction. The successful bid prices ranged from €0.0479 (~$0.056)/kWh to €0.0559 (~$0.065)/kWh, with an average volume-weighted award price of €0.0531(~$0.062)/kWh.

This price is lower than the ceiling price of €0.09 (~$0.1)/kWh and the previous auction’s average volume-weighted awarded price of €0.0615 (~$0.072)/kWh. The tender was oversubscribed more than four times, receiving 163 bids for 2,182 MW. Of these bids, 33 totaling 490 MW were selected.

In May, Bundesnetzagentur floated a tender to set up 2.26 GW of ground-mounted solar power projects.

In April, the agency awarded 2,638 MW of ground-mounted solar projects categorized under the ‘first segment,’ which are installations located on structures that are neither buildings nor noise barriers.

Germany installed 3.8 GW of solar capacity in the first quarter of 2025, an 11.62% year-over-year drop from 4.3 GW.