Germany has awarded only 176MW of new onshore wind capacity to 21 projects in the country’s latest auction out of 500MW that had been made available.
Twenty-two bids were made totalling 187MW, however, one bid was excluded because it was deemed ineligible, the German grid operator BNetz said.
The average price was €62.0 a megawatt-hour, the same as in the last auction in August.
Four winning bids totalling 64.2MW were for projects in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany, with six more with a combined capacity of 30.2MW in Schleswig-Holstein.
The remaining 11 successful bids were for one or two projects in Baden-Wurttemberg, Brandenburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony and Thuringia, BNetz said.
The grid operator did not give a reason for the lack of interest in the auction, but has previously blamed problems in securing construction permits from state governments.
Last week at a crisis summit with the industry, the German government vowed to introduce new measures to support onshore wind, including proposals to speed up the project approval process.
Another onshore wind auction is scheduled for the start of next month.