News Digest Item
28 Aug 2017

“Almost ninety percent of solar PV bids realised”

Federal Network Agency (BNetzA)

Almost 90 percent of bids from Germany’s second round of auctions for ground-mounted solar PV projects – which was carried-out in 2015 – have successfully been realised and will receive support, writes Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in a press release. “Again, the high rate of realisation shows that the auctions work,” said BNetzA president Jochen Homann. Four of the 37 projects were not realised, triggering a mandatory penalty payment.

Read the press release in German here.

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