The country鈥檚 federal energy regulator, the Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA) awarded contracts for 56 projects with a combined capacity of 509MW. It had received 76 total bids for 685MW, having initially advertised 500MW of available capacity.
Successful bid prices ranged between 鈧57.40/MWh and 鈧61.80/MWh, with a weighted average of 鈧61.10/MWh 鈥 down from the 鈧61.90-62.00/MWh range and weighted average of 鈧62/MWh in the country鈥檚 most recently undersubscribed auction in October.
The latest tender was the first time a German onshore wind auction was oversubscribed since August 2018, according to Tender Watch, 搖錢樹娛樂城's auction database.
A 鈥渢echnology-neutral鈥 tender pitting onshore wind against solar PV in November 2018 had also been oversubscribed, but only solar PV developers secured contracts.
Despite the apparent success of the latest auction, the聽BNetzA said it 鈥渞emains to be seen鈥 whether there has been a turnaround for onshore wind.
Hermann Albers, president of German wind energy association BWE, said the tender 鈥渟hould give us hope for a stabilisation of the German wind market in 2020鈥, However, 鈥渢he industry is still under massive pressure and is waiting in vain for credible political signals, in particular to resolve the backlog of permits,鈥 he added.
The BNA has previously acknowledged that difficulties in permitting at state-level has deterred developers from bidding in tenders.
A package of climate measures approved in October includes plans to accelerate permitting for onshore wind farms by fast-tracking legal action over projects鈥 noise levels and restricting challenges to permit awards.
Brandenburg had the most capacity awarded in the last tender of 2019 (17 projects for 174.26MW), followed by Lower Saxony (three projects for 73.25MW), North-Rhine Westphalia (11 projects for 72.63MW) and Schleswig-Holstein (six projects for 48.6MW).
Eight so-called 鈥渃itizens鈥 projects鈥 secured power deals.
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