EnBW payments part of the 187 MW initially huge scale aid cost-free solar park in Germany

• German energy company EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG is gradually putting Germany's largest solar park right into procedure in Werneuchen (Brandenburg). While the first kilowatt hours are being fed into the grid, the construction of the 187 MW Weesow-Willmersdorf plant proceeds. Around 70 percent of the modules have been mounted. Both transformer terminals, whereby the electrical power produced in the solar park is fed into the 110-kilovolt high-voltage line, are ready for procedure.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the "time buffer is nearly over," clarifies site supervisor Stefan Lederer. By the end of the year, the plant ought to be totally connected to the grid. Any additional unintended hold-up can "nonetheless, result in the fact that we can only put the last solar modules right into operation in very early 2021."

EnBW is spending around EUR100 million ($119 million) in the project, which does not need subsidies from the EEG levy. Predicted outcome of 175 to 180 GWh annually will be marketed by EnBW. The whole area on as well as around the solar park will certainly be landscaped, as well as bushes, bushes and also trees will certainly additionally be planted.

The project has been under development considering that 2009. EnBW obtained the project in 2018 and also bundled all rights in EnBW Solarpark Weesow-Willmersdorf GmbH. Operating duration legal rights will certainly run out at the end of 2060.