The Lauingen Energy Park is a 25.7–
megawatt
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(MW)
photovoltaic power station, located in
Bavarian Swabia, Germany. It covers an area of and was commissioned in June 2010.
The project was built in three phases:
* The 10.0 MW Helmeringen 1 (already commissioned in 2009)
* The 9.4 MW Helmeringen 2
* The 6.3 MW Helmeringen 3 (built and commissioned in 2010)
The largest solar power station in
Swabia was built by the German company
Gehrlicher Solar
Gehrlicher Solar AG is a German photovoltaics corporation with its registered office in Neustadt bei Coburg, Neustadt near Coburg and its administrative headquarters in Dornach near Munich. Gehrlicher Solar AG acts as a system integrator, planning ...
and features the following key figures:
* 288,132
thin-film modules using
cadmium telluride photovoltaics
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaics is a photovoltaic (PV) technology based on the use of cadmium telluride in a thin semiconductor layer designed to absorb and convert sunlight into electricity. Cadmium telluride PV is the only thin film ...
(CdTe PV) manufactured by U.S. company
First Solar
First Solar, Inc. is an American manufacturer of solar panels, and a provider of utility-scale PV power plants and supporting services that include finance, construction, maintenance and end-of-life panel recycling. First Solar uses rigid thi ...
* 17,952 conventional
solar panels based using
crystalline silicon
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photovoltaics manufactured by Chinese company
Yingli
Yingli (), formally Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited () - . Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, known as "Yingli Solar," is a solar panel manufacturer. Yingli Green Energy's manufacturing covers the photovoltaic value chain ...
* 18 SMA
solar inverter
A solar inverter or photovoltaic (PV) inverter is a type of power inverter which converts the variable direct current (DC) output of a photovoltaic solar panel into a utility frequency alternating current (AC) that can be fed into a commercial ...
s
* 3 Siemens
central inverters
* a total of 664 km
solar cable
A photovoltaic system, also PV system or solar power system, is an electric power system designed to supply usable solar power by means of photovoltaics. It consists of an arrangement of several components, including solar panels to absorb and co ...
trays
* a projected generation of almost 27 million
kilowatt-hours
A kilowatt-hour ( unit symbol: kW⋅h or kW h; commonly written as kWh) is a unit of energy: one kilowatt of power for one hour. In terms of SI derived units with special names, it equals 3.6 megajoules (MJ). Kilowatt-hours are a common bi ...
(kWh)
* an avoided 14,353 tons of CO
2 per year
* powers about 7,500 average households with clean energy, where average means a three-person household with an annual electricity consumption of 3,500 kWh.
Gallery
File:Gehrlicher Solar AG Energiepark Lauingen BauabschnittI.JPG
File:Energiepark Lauingen Gehrlicher Solar AG.JPG
See also
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Photovoltaics
Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. The photovoltaic effect is commercially ...
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Photovoltaic power station
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List of largest power stations in the world
This article lists the largest power stations in the world, the ten overall and the five of each type, in terms of current installed electrical capacity. Non-renewable power stations are those that run on coal, fuel oils, nuclear fuel, natural g ...
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Solar power in Germany
Solar power in Germany consists almost exclusively of photovoltaics (PV) and accounted for an estimated 8.2 percent of the country's gross-electricity generation in 2019.
About 1.5 million photovoltaic systems were installed around the count ...
References
Photovoltaic power stations in Germany
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