One more section of 300-MW solar facility goes onstream in Germany

• German energy solutions company GP JOULE GmbH has actually commissioned an 80-MW solar farm in Brandenburg which is the second section of the Lausitz power park with a prepared installed capacity of virtually 300 MW.

A total of 163,000 solar modules, creating the Klettwitz Sued solar farm, were mounted within 5 months on a former opencast mine in the eastern German town of Klettwitz. The center will balance out concerning 57,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions every year, GP JOULE said on Tuesday.

The photovoltaic (PV) system was prepared and developed by GP JOULE EPC as the general professional.

The link of Klettwitz Sued to the grid complies with the commissioning of the first section of the project, Klettwitz Nord, with a capacity of 90 MW in May. Klettwitz Nord is expected to create 91,530 MWh of green electricity per year.

The last section of the complex is the Hochkippe Sallgast project of 120 MW.

In the declaration, GP JOULE described that part of the power from the Lausitz power park will certainly be made use of to generate green hydrogen for the decarbonisation of the mobility industry in the area. For this purpose, an electrolysis plant and also a loading terminal for vehicles, trucks and also buses will be integrated in the park with building and construction work scheduled to begin in 2023. The climate-neutral fuel will certainly serve a network of local business that will use it for their trucks, buses, or building and construction vehicles.

The project for the 300-MW solar facility is an essential element of the architectural adjustment in Lusatia which is shiting away from the mining of fossil fuels towards renewable energy. Recently, regional power firm Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG (LEAG) introduced a strategy to deploy 7 GW of renewable resource capacity in the Lusatia mining locations by 2030, including investments of over EUR 10 billion.