en.Wedoany.com Reported - Germany's Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) launched a tender on Wednesday (May 27) for the construction of 2,135 megawatts of ground-mounted solar power projects nationwide.

The agency stated that interested participants can submit bids until July 1, 2026, and are currently not required to pay the new grid fees for electricity producers that are under discussion. In this bidding round, the regulator has set a price cap of EUR 0.059 (approx. USD 0.06) per kilowatt-hour, and bids exceeding this amount will be excluded from the process.

As part of a larger plan, the Federal Network Agency aims to support the construction of 9,900 megawatts of ground-mounted solar capacity in 2026, for which three tender rounds will be conducted. The agency emphasized that a series of legal reform measures aimed at accelerating solar deployment nationwide, known as the "Solar Package I," have not yet received EU state aid approval. The proposed reforms include raising the capacity cap for individual tender projects from the current 20 megawatts to 50 megawatts, setting higher maximum values for special solar projects such as agrivoltaic and waterside PV systems, and introducing priority tender quotas for special solar power projects.

The relevant reform measures will only apply to this tender if the European Commission approves the state aid before the bid submission deadline. In the previous selection round, the Federal Network Agency selected 268 projects with a total capacity of 2,299 megawatts, with the value of the selected projects ranging from EUR 0.0399 to EUR 0.051 per kilowatt-hour.

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