Power generated from the solar power station will displace about 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2).
The final solar modules of Waldpolenz energy park have been assembled in Brandis, near Leipzig in eastern Germany.
“We’ve completed a one-of-a-kind project in which grid connection happened even faster than we anticipated,” said juwi branch director, Ingo Rodner.
The Waldpolenz station produces enough electricity to power more than 10,000 homes annually. The solar park has a surface area of more than 100 hectares, about the equivalent of nearly 200 soccer fields. Altogether the juwi solar GmbH specialists installed more than half a million state-of-the-art, thin-film modules supplied by First Solar. As general contractor juwi directed the planning, logistics and construction site management.
The juwi group recently connected other major projects in and outside Germany, such as in Kothen (14.8 MW rated capacity), Worrstadt (5.6 MW) and Veitriedhausen (2.9 MW) in Germany along with arrays in southern Italy (3.2 MW) and the Czech Republic (1.6 MW). “Free-standing solar power stations are extremely important, not only for climate protection, but also to advance solar energy as a whole. They help drive down the cost of solar energy and make it more competitive,” says juwi co-chief executive officer Matthias Willenbacher.
