Enefit Green to construct solar farm at Estonian mine

• The company has made an investment decision for the almost 3MW project

Enefit Green has actually made an investment decision to build a solar farm in the industrial area of the Estonia Mine in Ida-Virumaa.

The project will certainly have a capacity of nearly 3MW as well as will be located on a platform constructed from waste rocks.

A 27-metre-high structure was constructed for the solar park on a mine site from waste rock created throughout oil shale extraction. This allows to lower losses as a result of watching as well as thereby makes electrical power production more reliable.

Enefit Green will certainly spend approximately EUR2.7 m to develop the project. Building of the solar park will certainly start in the initial half of next year, and the park is arranged to begin manufacturing in early 2024.

According to Enefit Green Renewable Energy Project Manager Elise Johanna Lill, the solar park is the second one the firm is building in an industrial park.

" Pre-mined areas, as well as various other low-value lands, are really suitable for constructing solar energy plants. The growth of renewable energy in industrial parks serves several environmental purposes. For example, it offers the possibility to utilize waste rock produced during mining as building and construction product and also to provide the mine with green power," Lill said.

Lill added that the establishment of Estonia Solar Park is part of the company's development plan to significantly increase their output of renewable energy.

" Enefit Green will certainly quadruple its green electrical energy production capacity in the coming years. Solar power has wonderful development capacity for us in the Baltic as well as Polish markets. Following year, we plan to make investment decisions for the building and construction of large-scale solar parks in Estonia and also Lithuania with a total volume of over 200MW."