Germany’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has floated a tender to set up 2.26 GW of ground-mounted solar power projects.

The last date to submit bids is July 1, 2025.

The tender has a bid tariff cap of €0.068 (~$0.0769)/kWh.

Bids can be submitted for projects on arable land and grasslands in disadvantaged areas.

Regarding bids for ground-mounted solar systems on agricultural land, there is a rider. If the ground-mounted installations on agricultural land registered in the market master data register up to three months before the bidding date are more than the installed capacity of 80 GW, commissioned from 1 January 2023, bids will not be accepted.

The application under Solar Package I will be subject to approval from the European Commission. If the approval is not received before the bid deadline, the maximum bid will be 20 MW.

The Federal Network Agency has set a target of auctioning projects totaling 9,900 MW during the year across three bidding rounds.

In Q1 2025, Germany installed 3.8 GW of solar capacity, an 11.62% year-over-year drop from 4.3 GW, according to Bundesnetzagentur.  As of March 2025, the country’s cumulative solar capacity had reached 103.8 GW.

In January 2025, the German agency issued a tender to develop 2.625 GW of ground-mounted solar projects on agricultural land, grasslands, and areas in disadvantaged regions. The tender had a bid tariff cap of €0.068 (~$0.071)/kWh. Bids could be placed for a maximum capacity of 20 MW per project.

Recently, the German agency awarded 2,638 MW of ground-mounted solar projects categorized under the ‘first segment,’ which are installations located on structures that are neither buildings nor noise barriers. Awarded prices ranged between €0.0399 (~$0.0457)/kWh and €0.0488 (~$0.0559)/kWh, with the average volume-weighted price settling at €0.0466(~$0.0534)/kWh. Bavaria received the largest allocation with 607 MW across 85 bids, followed by Brandenburg (367 MW, 24 bids) and Lower Saxony (315 MW, 31 bids).