EnBW buys up to 800MW of German PV projects from Procon Solar

• Solar designer Procon Solar GmbH has actually sold a 400MW PV project pipeline to German power company EnBW, with the potential for this to fold the next year as EnBW targets 50% of renewables in its generation mix by 2025.

Procon Solar has actually accepted turn over of 400MW of PV projects in advanced stages of advancement in the Eastern German state of Brandenburg to EnBW on 1 July, with an additional 400MW of early-stage projects possibly adhering to by February 2023.

As part of the offer, nine workers will certainly relocate from Procon Solar to EnBW to help support the further growth of the sites as well as EnBW will keep Procon Solar's office in the city of Cottbus.

EnBW currently has a 2.5 GW PV pipeline, with the above additions possibly taking this approximately 3.3 GW, a dive of 25%, as the company aims to hit a target of 50% of renewables in it generation portfolio by 2025.

EnBW's head of renewable energies, Harald Schmoch, stated the company was "strongly committed to Brandenburg". It has three existing solar parks in Weesow-Willmersdorf, Gottesgabe and also Alttrebbin with an integrated capability of about 500MW, which Schmoch stated were "all built without state financing".

"We desire to continue to play an active duty fit the structural change of the energy-producing area," he added.

EnBW and also Procon solar have worked together in the past. In 2018, EnBW took control of the 187MW Weesow-Willmersdorf solar park from Procon Solar as well as created the site till it was totally linked to the grid in March 2021.

Taking care of director and also partner of Procon Solar, Klaus Hoff, claimed EnBW was a "strong companion" for the power change and that EnBW's local origins and also "leading expertise of the power market" were "crucial variables" in the companies remaining to interact.

Thorsten Jörß, responsible for PV project growth at EnBW, said while there were still "difficulties to conquer with each other prior to the specific projects are authorized as well as can be developed", the company was committed to greater solar deployment as part of German's power technique.

In April, Germany's government claimed it was going to slash bureaucracy for new renewables projects as part of a new bundle of procedures that included a target of reaching 215GW of solar set up by 2030, up on the coalition government's previous 200GW purpose. As of year-end 2021, the nation had actually 59GW of deployed solar.