The average price of a winning bid came in at €0.0723 per kilowatt hour of electricity to be produced, lower than the €0.0741/kWh at the previous round.

“the price level in the fifth tendering round despite a low number of bids again has sunk slightly,” says Jochen Hohmann, the president of Germany’s federal networks agency BNetzA.

“That shows that the competition for ground-based PV arrays is still working.”

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