Germany’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has this week announced over 500 MW of solar contracts have been issued in its national auction held a month ago. Most reports of it have made a big issue about the average pricing, which is around €0.065 per kilowatt-hour. More important it seems to us is how much capacity Germany will add this year. The Agency has a schedule of 1.47 GW to auction in Solar over the year, and another 3.67 GW of wind auctions – totaling just over 5 GW combined, in auctions, not counting any smaller installations, like home solar. Last year it was closer to 7 GW, so this actually represents a significant slow-down. Over the past 4 years Irena…