The price for winning bids in Germany’s first 709MW onshore wind tendering round this year rose after privileges for community power were removed, but fell for solar PV where no major change in rules took place, the federal grid agency BNetzA said.

“The increase of the winning bid level to €46.00 ($56.77) [per megawatt hour] makes clear that for previous bids – without a permit and construction times of 4.5