Germany revises down price ceilings for PV auctions in 2025
ByJonathan Touriño Jacobo
December 20, 2024
The German Federal Network Agency, the Bundesnetzagentur, has decreased the price ceiling for next year’s solar PV auctions.
Unlike the price ceiling for wind, which has not changed compared to 2024, all three auctions involving solar PV have been revised down to take into account the decrease in the forecast levelised cost of electricity, said the Bundesnetzagentur.
Both ground-mounted solar PV auctions and rooftop solar PV auctions will see their price ceiling decrease in 2025. The new maximum bidding price for the former has been set at €0.068/kWh, down from the €0.0735/kWh set in 2024. Despite that decrease, the price remains higher than the price ceiling in 2022 when it was at €0.059/kWh.
The price for rooftop solar PV systems will be higher than for ground-mounted systems, with a maximum bidding price set at €0.104/kWh. Again, this is a decrease from the ceiling price set for rooftop auctions held in 2024, when it was €0.1125/kWh.
Meanwhile, innovation tenders innovation tenders – which combine solar PV and battery energy storage systems (BESS) – will have a price ceiling of €0.09/kWh (US$0.0935/kWh), slightly lower than €0.0918/kWh set in 2024.