Feed-in tariffs (FITs) for German onshore wind projects still receiving support under the old FIT-based system will fall by another 2.4% from January 2018 on after additions in the 12 months to July 2017 overshot a government-set target of 2.5GW a year, the federal grid agency BNetzA said.

Germany in the wake of a reform of its Renewable Energies Act (EEG) last year started to determine the level of support for onshore wind and other renewables technologies through tenders, with first onshore wind auctions this year tendering off a total of 2.8GW