Deubach Solar Park Opens in Germany
The Deubach solar park in Wettenhausen, Germany, with a capacity of 2.8 MW, chose eight SolarMax 330C-SV inverters from Sputnik Engineering for the installation. Plans for Deubach II are already starting.
Staff -- PV Society, 12/18/2009
Vento Ludens (Jettingen, Germany), a developer, investor and owner of renewable energy installations, is handing over the Deubach solar park located in Wettenhausen, Germany, to the operator, PV Deubach GmbH & Co. KG. The solar park has a capacity of 2.8 MW. The 14,000 crystalline solar modules used in the installation can yield ~3 million kW annually, which is enough to supply 850 four-person households with power. In addition, the solar plant cuts 18,000 tons of CO2 emissions every year.
Vento Ludens chose eight SolarMax 330C-SV inverters made by Sputnik Engineering AG (Biel, Switzerland). Every two to three of the central inverters feed their power from three SolarMax megawatt stations into the medium-voltage grid of the local power utility. "It was Sputnik's price-performance ratio that convinced us," said Guido Hedemann, a managing director at Vento Ludens.
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The Deubach solar park located in Wettenhausen, Germany, has 14,000 crystalline solar modules that can yield roughly 1040 kWh/kW. |
The overall costs of the solar plant in Deubach came to €9 million ($12.9M). Hans-Martin Herbel, managing director of PV Deubach, expects a profit margin of 7-8% The project is being financed by nine local banks.
"It is our goal to realize our projects on the basis of a consensus with all the participating parties," said Horst Walz, another managing director at Vento Ludens. "That is why we invested some €100,000 in various cosmetic measures." Cosmetic measures included a meadow with wild flowers and other plants that will blossom under the solar modules. The company has panelled the megawatt stations with wood and built pointed gables with copper gutters on the roof.
Hans Klement, the mayor of the town, made a point of praising the open-land system's design and natural greening. He also had scheduled a special session for the land use planning proceedings to facilitate the expansion of the solar plant. Deubach II will be built at the same location and is planned to begin operation in February 2010 with a total capacity of 1.8 MW.
