Bonn (energate) - In the onshore wind tender on 1 February, project developers only submitted bids for just under half of the tender volume. The tender for solar power on buildings and noise barriers has also been subscribed - but only just, according to the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur). For onshore wind power plants, the Federal Network Agency had invited tenders for 3,210 MW. However, only 126 bids were submitted with a total bid volume of around 1,502 MW. Since the Federal Network Agency excluded seven bids due to formal errors, only 119 bids with 1,441 MW capacity remained. At 7.34 cents/kWh, the average, volume-weighted bid value was minimally below the
newly set maximum value of 7.35 cents/kWh. Bids ranged between 7.24 cents/kWh and 7.35 cents/kWh.
RWE uses tenders for repowering
The largest volume of 96 MW was awarded to PNE AG. Although the project developer only sent three wind farms into the race, one of them was in Lower Saxony with 59 MW, the largest to come up for tender. The second largest wind farm in the tender, with 50 MW, will be built in the Spree-Neiße district (state of Brandenburg), where the project developer is 'Erste Windpark Jerischke GmbH & Co. KG'. RWE was also awarded three parks with 73 MW - all of them repowering projects, as the company announced. They are to replace old turbines with a capacity of 37 MW. Enercity, Raiffeisenwindpark Linne and REA GmbH Umweltinvest were each awarded about 50 MW. Citizens' energy companies were awarded a total of at least nine projects and 111 MW. Regionally, most of the bids came from North Rhine-Westphalia (40 awards, 387 MW) and Lower Saxony (16 awards, 354 MW).
In 2023 there will be three more bidding rounds for 3,210 MW each. In 2022 there were also a total of four tenders, each with a volume of 1,333 MW. This means that in addition to the maximum value, the tender volume has also increased significantly. However, in order to "achieve the urgently needed increase in capacity", the suitability and priority areas must now also be expanded and work must be done on "accelerating the approvals", explained Klaus Müller, president of the Federal Network Agency, with regard to the signed tender. According to the
Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), the wind power capacity tendered in 2023 but not awarded will be added to the tender volume for 2024 of 10,000 MW.
Award values for solar plants of the second segment with a wider bandwidth
In the tender round for solar installations on buildings and noise barriers, the tender volume was 217 MW. A total of 94 bids with a volume of 213 MW were submitted. The Federal Network Agency awarded 87 bids with a volume of 195 MW, the others were eliminated due to formal errors. The award values determined in the bid price procedure ranged between 9.00 cents/kWh and the maximum value in this round of 11.25 cents/kWh. The volume-weighted average value was 10.87 cents/kWh. The average plant was 2.2 MW in size. Only six of the plants awarded contracts had a capacity of 5 MW or more (up to 10.2 MW).
This year there will be two more tenders of the same size for solar plants in this so-called second segment, on 1 June and 1 October. Here, too, quantities not awarded will be added to the auction quantity for 2024, which,
according to the EEG, is 900 MW. In the following years it will rise to 1,100 MW. /sd
