diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 61b777e..b193b53 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-[submodule "submodules/api-common-protos"]
-	path = submodules/api-common-protos
-	url = https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis.git
 [submodule "submodules/frequenz-api-common"]
 	path = submodules/frequenz-api-common
 	url = https://github.com/frequenz-floss/frequenz-api-common.git
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index f096342..1cd37fd 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@
 
 - Update to latest version of frequenz-api-common
 - Bump grpc related dependencies
+- Remove the dependency on `googleapis`
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7e8c4b7..b4de159 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ classifiers = [
 requires-python = ">= 3.11, < 4"
 dependencies = [
   "frequenz-api-common >= 0.6.2, < 0.7.0",
-  "googleapis-common-protos >= 1.65.0, < 2",
-  "grpcio >= 1.66.1, < 2",
-]
+  "grpcio >= 1.66.2, < 2", 
+  "protobuf >= 5.27.2, < 6"
+  ]
 dynamic = ["version"]
 
 [[project.authors]]
diff --git a/submodules/api-common-protos b/submodules/api-common-protos
deleted file mode 160000
index f65ad5f..0000000
--- a/submodules/api-common-protos
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit f65ad5f87d253c02e1d854aa48c096acc404215f