Big rush for the August 1 tender

24.09.2025

Source: E & M powernews

The Federal Network Agency has published the awards of the tender for onshore wind power as of August 1, 2025. There were almost twice as many applicants as capacity on offer.

On August 1, the Federal Network Agency invited tenders for 3,443 MW of onshore wind power capacity. It presented the results of the tender on September 24. According to the results, 604 bids were submitted with a bid volume of 5,739 MW. The President of the authority, Klaus Müller, commented: "The bid volume of more than 5.7 GW submitted is the second-highest value in a tender to date."

Falling award values for four bidding rounds

The strong competition also once again lowered the award values for the remuneration of wind power. As a result, 376 bids with an award volume of 3,448 MW were awarded a contract. According to the authority, 25 bids had to be excluded from the procedure. The award values determined in the bidding price procedure range between 6.39 cents per kWh and 6.64 cents per kWh. The average volume-weighted award value continues to fall compared to the previous round (6.83 cents per kWh) and, at 6.57 cents per kWh, is significantly below the maximum value of 7.35 ct/kWh.

Northwest received the most surcharges

The regional distribution shows that the largest volumes were awarded to bids for locations in North Rhine-Westphalia (817 MW, 105 awards) and Lower Saxony (800 MW, 73 awards). The third-largest volume was for projects in Brandenburg (609 MW, 89 awards). This is the largest volume ever achieved in a tender in this federal state. The updated statistics on the bidding round will be published within a week of the awards being made.

BWE: System works and should remain

For the German Wind Energy Association, the tender result is further proof that the industry is able to deliver along the previous expansion path, which should therefore be maintained. The trade association is concerned that Economics Minister Katherina Reiche (CDU), who based her action plan on the lower end of the already downwardly revised electricity demand forecast from the energy transition monitoring report, could also derive a flattening of the expansion path for renewables from this.

According to BWE President Bärbel Heidebroek, "the desired price control effects are occurring due to the high level of competition. The system is working. We now need continuity in targets and framework conditions so that the industry can continue to plan with a consistently high level of dynamism. This was also underlined by the energy transition monitoring report: The expansion must continue and the plans for electricity demand (must, the editors) be defined at 705 TWh if the industrial structure in Germany is to be maintained."

Heidebroek once again appealed to the Federal Network Agency to publish the surcharges more quickly. This time, it took a good seven weeks; previous wind onshore tenders sometimes took longer than two months. The delays slowed down the expansion, according to the BWE President. She did not propose a transition from static bids on paper, which are compared with each other on the cut-off date, to dynamic electronic bids, which are common offshore.

A total of 11,000 MW have already been awarded in the first three onshore wind tenders in 2025. "We are therefore on a stable course towards the EEG expansion targets," Heidebroek continued. More than 10,000 MW were also newly approved in the first eight months of the year. In addition, 3,000 MW were actually added.

Further information on the tender from August 1 is available on the Internet.

Authors: Susanne Harmsen and Georg Eble