New solar PPA, crossbreed PV-wind project in Germany

• Statkraft and Naturstrom AG have authorized a power acquisition contract for a 50 MW solar array in Bavaria, while BayWa r.e. has actually revealed a brand-new solar-wind crossbreed project, with 22 MW of solar capability.

Norway's Statkraft and Naturstrom AG have revealed a new deal for 50 MW of solar, after signing 12-year solar energy purchase agreements (PPAs) in February for 237 GWh of yearly generation in Bavaria.

Statkraft will supply around 600 GWh of solar energy to the German green electricity supplier by December 2031 under the current contract, with Naturstrom to make use of the power to provide its residential customers. The agreement reportedly provides "full rate flexibility," so Naturstrom can integrate the solar energy into its purchase strategy.

The electrical energy originates from the Schornhof solar park in Bavaria, for which Statkraft authorized a different PPA with Ingolstadt-based PV company Anumar in July. The Norwegian service said at the time that a temporary bargain for a 30 MW solar energy plant had actually been safeguarded in German PV tenders, with a feed-in premium top-up tariff.

"The Schornhof solar park will certainly be the largest connected solar power plant in Bavaria that will certainly be executed and operated with the help of a combination of PPAs as well as EEG funding," said Anumar Managing Director Andreas Klier, describing the German renewable resource law, the Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz (EEG). Schornhof is unfinished as well as is set to be finished prior to April.

In a separate growth, German renewables programmer BayWa r.e. claimed it would connect a scheduled 10 MW solar park to a 24 MW wind farm in Bavaria. The project, near Bayreuth, has been running given that 2013. The plants will be linked to the same grid link point. BayWa r.e. prepares to broaden the solar generation ability of the crossbreed project to 22 MW.

The shortage of hybrid renewable energy projects in Germany means that designers and also grid drivers have to work closely to arrange capability usage sometimes when both innovations are producing. Although crossbreed facilities are much more pricey, BayWa stated the PV part of its system was only possible due to the fact that it can make use of the very same grid link factor.