From pv magazine Germany.
In the first round of Germany’s 2019 mixed solar and wind auctions, all the successful projects were solar, continuing a trend which began last year.
The Federal Network Agency received 109 bids for PV projects with a combined capacity of around 720 MW for the auction – not a single onshore wind bid was submitted. A final 18 projects, with a total capacity of 210 MW were selected.
Auction prices ranged from €0.0450/kWh to €0.0610. That compared to a price range of €0.0465-0.0579/kWh in the last mixed auction, held in November. The average final price of solar power rose slightly, from €0.0527/kWh to €0.0566.
As the quota for PV systems on arable land in less-favorable areas of Bavaria has been exhausted for the year, the state was missing from the latest procurement exercise. The Federal Network Agency said the successful schemes will be distributed over five federal states, with 59 MW to be built in each of Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg. Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Hesse secured 48 MW, 33 MW, and 10 MW of capacity, respectively.
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The successful bidders have until May 8 to deposit their guarantees. After that, the agency will publish the official results of the auction.
The next mixed solar and wind auction will be held in June and will see the allocation of around 150 MW of generation capacity. Another mixed procurement will be held in November, to assign a total capacity of around 200 MW.
Germany is holding three kind of auction for utility scale solar: regular tenders for PV projects ranging in size from 750 kW to 10 MW, ‘special’ tenders for projects of the same size with a combined capacity of 4 GW by 2021, and mixed solar and wind auctions.
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That was pretty clear as wind power is facing many difficulties to get the approval/ building permits for new sites.
At present only 1,4 GWp to get new approval per year and 2,8 GWp of pure wind auctions per anno.
Everyone who has wa project ready is bidding in the pure Wind auctions where the prices shown as the auctions results are much higher for many regions with the so called “reference yield system”.
If you have a solar bid in the combined auctions of 5,6 Cent/kWh in average thats the price you get paid for 20 years- Wind gets much more in pure wind auctions which are not oversigned as solar is.
Quite easy – the combined auction concentrating on price only does not make sence for the system development and is another solar auction at presen. The lack of approval is a real problem in germany now- not the money.