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Average bid price of €4.31c/kWh for Germany's second CHP plants auction

The German Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur or BNetzA) has unveiled the results of the latest tender for combined heat and power (CHP) plants with a deadline set on 1 June 2018. 25 MW were available for innovative CHP plants (cap price of €12c/kWh) and 93 MW for the other CHP plants (cap price of €7c/kWh).



For CHP plants, 15 offers were submitted with a total volume of 96 MW and 14 bids (91 MW) were awarded. The average bidding price stood at €4.31c/kWh, while the offers ranged between €2.99c/kWh and €5.2c/kWh. 77 MW will be available during the next round, which will take place in December 2018. For innovative CHP systems, 7 offers (23 MW) were submitted and five (21 MW) were awarded. The average price stood at €10.27c/kWh (bids ranging between €8.47c/KWh and €10.94c/kWh).



In 2017, the last tender attracted 20 offers with a combined capacity of 225 MW but only 82 MW were slated despite a planned tender volume of 100 MW. The average bidding price stood at €4.05c/kWh while the minimum and maximum prices stood respectively at €3.19c/kWh and €4.99c/kWh.