“Few of Germany’s tendered ground-mounted solar PV projects realised”

So far just 25 percent of the winning bids in Germany’s first auction for ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) projects, held in April 2015, have been realised, Sandra Enkhardt writes in PV Magazine. Of the projects selected in the country’s second large-scale solar auction, only 27 percent had been installed through the end of July, according to the German government. Germany’s Federal Network Agency allocated a total of 316 megawatts across 58 successful project bids in the first two solar auctions held last year. Developers have two years to realise their projects, many of which could go into operation towards the end of that period.

Read the article in German here here.

For background on the transition to renewable auctions, read the CLEW dossier The reform of the Renewable Energy Act.