Brandenburg : EnBW plans of Germany's largest solar Park

The energy group EnBW wants to build in front of the gates of Berlin, the largest solar Park in Germany. This is the "Handelsblatt" reported on Wednesday, citing the company. The plant is to be built in Weesow-willmer village, 30 kilometers East of Berlin, and a performance of up to 175 megawatts.

you can produce per year, enough electricity to supply the table of 50,000 households. Compared to conventional power plants, CO2 would simultaneously saving emissions of around 125,000 tons per year, the report says.

The plans for this have progressed thus far. EnBW has secured according to the report, the area, the development plan was adopted, and the company is in the technical detail planning.

The project is expected to operate without support

The scale is enormous: The modules are distributed to 164 hectares, the equivalent of about 225 football fields. "We would build the largest solar Park in Germany," said EnBW chief technology officer Hans-Josef room the sheet. "And to do without funding."

The EnBW assumes that you need for your project, no fixed compensation, but the electricity profitably on the open market can sell. "We are convinced that at least the first major solar parks in the foreseeable future economically viable – without subsidies," says Zimmer. From an output of 50 megawatts of solar parks could get along, from today's point of view, without any promotion.

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the end of the year should fall in relation to market development, the investment decision, in the coming year, the solar Park will be finished. "The first electricity could flow 2020", the room is quoted. To not want to the cost of investment, he comment. In industry circles, they are estimated according to the report, but in the 120 to 150 million euros.