German country wine auction saw record interest

Last week, the Danish tender for offshore wind projects ended with exactly zero bids. Therefore, one could perhaps fear on behalf of the wind industry that the tender that Germany had carried out for onshore wind turbine projects, which closed for bids on 1 November 2024, would show a disappointing result.

However, that was far from the case. The German tender round received a total of 528 bids with a total volume of 6,083 MW. The auction was thus oversubscribed 1.5 times, as there was 4094 MW at stake. A total of 348 permits were awarded with a total volume of 4,098 MW.

- The submitted bids broke the old record set at the previous auction, with more than double the volume and almost as many bids as at all the 2023 auctions combined. The very positive trend in the bids will also be clearly reflected in the number of wind turbines that are put into operation from next year, says Klaus Müller, who is head of the Bundesnetzagentur, in a press release.

The average price fell from 7.33 cents per kWh in the previous auction to 7.15 cents per kWh, which was slightly below the authorities' maximum price of 7.35 cents per kWh.

The state of North Rhine-Westphalia can look forward to the most new turbines, where 116 bids resulted in a total of 1256 MW, followed by Lower Saxony (606 MW, 46 winning bids), Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (429 MW, 32 winning bids) and Brandenburg (380 MW, 46 winning bids).

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