Vattenfall begins solar build on German hydro site

• 2.4 MW PV system prepared for Geesthacht pumped storage plant

Vattenfall has now started the construction of an open-space photovoltaic or pv system at the Geesthacht pumped storage space plant in Schleswig-Holstein.

In the coming weeks, the company will install around 5,000 solar modules with a capacity of 2.4 MW on the dam of the upper basin at Germany's northernmost pumped storage space facility.

The required preparatory job is already underway, according to Vattenfall.

The photovoltaic system in Geesthacht is one of various projects in which Vattenfall is including solar energy to pump storage plants.

At the 1050MW Markersbach pumped storage center in the Ore Mountains, one of the largest pumped storage space facilities in Germany, Vattenfall started building a photovoltaic system in the summertime of 2020.

The system consists of around 11,000 solar modules, has actually an installed capacity of 4.3 MW and also is currently in the appointing stage.

In addition, Vattenfall has already geared up the roofing system areas of the PSP Markersbach with PV modules, to ensure that a total of seven megawatts of new solar outcome functions or incomplete at the hydropower plants.

Vattenfall head of solar and batteries device Claus Wattendrup claimed: "Vattenfall wishes to make it possible for a fossil-free life within one generation.

" The additional expansion of renewable energies plays a crucial role right here, and we want to continue growing right here.

" An useful part of this method is to add photovoltaics to existing energy generation systems.

" In addition, making use of existing technological framework brings about harmonies that also benefit the productivity of solar power."

Vattenfall Wasserkraft managing supervisor Peter Apel added: "Vattenfall has been running hydropower plants in northern and eastern Germany for decades.

" Our pumped storage centers serve as storage for the growing renewable energies and also warranty grid security.

" It is therefore rational to continue to increase renewable resources in those areas in which we have long been an indispensable part of the neighborhood power facilities."

Vattenfall is currently supplementing existing places with photovoltaics, specifically in Germany as well as the Netherlands.

It has around 100MW of solar power in operation and also under construction.

In addition to the solar projects on the pumped storage space facilities, the firm is presently developing the 28MW open space solar park Kogel-Leizen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania along the A19 freeway not far from the Wittstock-Dosse motorway triangular.

Additional projects for a number of hundred megawatts of solar power are likewise in the planning stage.