Navigation and service

Go to:

Price ceil­ings for re­new­able en­er­gy auc­tions

Year of issue 2024
Date of issue 2024.12.19

The Bundesnetzagentur has today published its new determinations setting price ceilings for the renewable energy generation auctions to be held in 2025.

The following price ceilings have been set:

6.80 cents per kilowatt hour (ct/kWh) for ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, 7.35 ct/kWh for onshore wind, 9.00 ct/kWh for installation combinations in innovation auctions, and 10.40 ct/kWh for roof-mounted solar PV systems.

"The new price ceilings create a reliable framework for the auctions and ensure that the renewable energy expansion targets can be met. At the same time, they help keep the costs of support down as low as possible," said Klaus Müller, President of the Bundesnetzagentur.

Adjustment of the price ceilings

The price ceiling for the onshore wind auctions is the same as that set for this year’s auctions. This is because the welcome upward trend in bid volumes has not yet led to a significant decrease in the award prices. In addition, the forecast levelised costs of electricity have remained stable compared with the year before.

The price ceilings for 2025 for ground-mounted solar PV systems, roof-mounted solar PV systems and the innovation auctions are slightly lower than this year’s price ceilings. The new price ceilings take into account the decrease in the forecast levelised costs of electricity, the results of the last three rounds in each type of auction and the larger volumes that will be up for auction in 2025 for the two types of solar PV systems.

Without the Bundesnetzagentur’s new price ceilings, the ceilings would revert to the considerably lower limits set in the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG). If this happened, there would be a risk that the volumes up for auction in 2025 would not be exhausted.

Further information

The price ceilings for the auctions to be held in 2025 for biomass and biomethane installations will be reviewed in good time before the auctions.

The new price ceilings will be published in the next issue of the Bundesnetzagentur’s Official Gazette and are available online (in German):

Mastodon