A new draft for an executive order diminishes the annual PV capacity to be auctioned off to 500MW in 2015 and 400MW in 2016, the website of German political magazine Der Spiegel claims.

That would be down from 600MW each year planned in an earlier draft seen by Recharge. The energy ministry said details of a final draft are still being fine-tuned, but hopes the cabinet in Berlin will still approve the draft this year.