The latest onshore wind capacity auction in Germany was oversubscribed with bids totalling over 685MW received for the 509MW on offer.
German grid regulator BNetzA said 76 bids were received, of which 56 were successful.
Prices ranged from €57.4 a megawatt-hour to €61.8/MWh, with the average price €61.1/MWh – down from the average in the last auction of €62.0/MWh.
Seventeen projects totalling over 174MW were successful in the Brandenburg region, three projects with combined capacity of more than 73MW won in Lower Saxony as did 11 wind farms totalling almost 73MW in North Rhine-Westphalia.
A further six projects won in Schleswig-Holstein totalling 48.6MW, while eight community-owned projects were also successful.
The oversubscribed tender follows a series of onshore wind auctions that had attracted bids for volume well below the capacity on offer.
BNetzA said: “It remains to be seen whether a turnaround in wind energy on land can be concluded from this.”