Solar Power Plants in Germany - other states

Alt Daber Location: BB Operator: Solarpark Alt Daber Configuration: 67.8 MWp Operation: 2011 System supplier: First Solar EPC: Belectric Solarkraftwerke Quick facts: In Oct 2011, NIBC Infrastructure & Renewables closed financing for the Alt Daber project with BayernLB and Investkredit. The 125ha project has 850,000 thin film solar modulces erected at the site of a former military airport 100km northwest of Berlin. Photograph courtesy Belectric Solarkraftwerke Posted 26 May 2012	Bad Dürrheim Location: BW Operator: Energiedienst AG Configuration: 22.5 kWp Operation: 2000 System supplier: ?? Photograph by NaturEnergie AG Posted 25 Apr 2004	Hennigsdorf Allton Location: BE Operator: Allton Fertigteile GmbH Configuration: 225 kWp Operation: 2005-2007 System supplier: Sharp EPC: Siemens Quick facts: This factory rooftop installation was extended in 2007 with 1,248 solar modules from Sharp which were connected together into 26 solar panels, twelve junction boxes, and two 100-kVA master/slave Sinvert Solar inverters. The system is connected to the Berlin public power supply network. Photograph courtesy of Siemens Posted 29 Mar 2008
FinowTower Location: BB Operator: FinowTower GmbH & Co KG Configuration: 24.24 MWp Operation: 2010 System supplier: Suntech EPC: SolarHybrid Quick facts: At completion, this was the fifth largest PV power plant in Germany. The site is at Schorfheide near Eberswalde and was financed and developed by ecolutions Photograph courtesy of SolarHybrid Posted 2 Feb 2005	Geiseltalsee Location: ST Operator: Solar Anlage Geiseltalsee Betriebs GmbH Configuration: 4 MWp Operation: 2004 System supplier: BP Solar Quick facts: At completion, this was the fifth largest PV power plant in the world. Photograph courtesy of BP Solar Posted 2 Feb 2005	Hauptschule Drimborn Location: NW Operator: Hauptschule Drimborn Configuration: 7 kWp Operation: 1999 System supplier: ?? Photograph courtesy of Umweltkontor Posted 2 May 2004
Lieberose Location: BB Operator: juwi GmbH Configuration: 53 MWp Operation: 2002 System supplier: First Solar EPC: juwi Quick facts: This plant is built on 162ha of a former military training site near Cottbus. At completion, it became Germanys' largest PV plant and the second largest in the world. The project cost €160mn and was 80% financed by a German banking consortium and 20% by juwi and Fist Solar. In total, 300ha will be cleaned of munitions and after 20yrs of plant operation, all the solar equipment will be recycled and the property restored to meadowlands. Photograph courtesy of juwi GmbH Posted 15 Aug 2009	Meuro Location: BB Operator: GP JOULE GmbH Configuration: 70 MWp Operation: 2011 System supplier: Canadian Solar EPC: GP JOULE Quick facts: This 152ac project was built on old lignite mining areas in Senftenberg and became the country's largest PV plant on completion in Feb 2011. Financing partners for the €140mn project included HSH Nordbank, Unlimited Energy and LUXCARA. Photograph courtesy of GP JOULE GmbH Posted 26 May 2012	Morbach Location: RP Operator: juwi GmbH Configuration: 490 kWp Operation: 2002 System supplier: Kyocera, Conergy EPC: juwi Quick facts: After the withdrawal of the US forces from the largest ammunition dump in Central Europe, the site's 145ha of land were returned to the municipality of Morbach. It is now being developed into a renewable energy park with wind turbines, PV panels, biogas CHP, and a wood pellet production plant. Photograph courtesy of juwi GmbH Posted 2 Sep 2007
Solarpark Greifswald Location: MV Operator: Solarpark Greifswald Configuration: 1.77 MWp Operation: 2004 System supplier: BP Solar Quick facts: This facility is on the site of the closed Greifswald nuclear plant (4 X 440 MW). Photograph courtesy of BP Solar Posted 2 Feb 2005	Waldpolenz Location: SN Operator: juwi GmbH Configuration: 40 MWp Operation: 2007-2008 System supplier: First Solar EPC: juwi Quick facts: The PV array covers an area 2km long by 600m wide at a former military airfield near Leipzig. Advanced thin-film modules were installed at about €3,250/kW, some 20% less than the cost for German plants then being installed. SachsenFonds GmbH -- a fund marketing and administration company of Sachsen LB Group – offered equity to interested investors in the form of closed-end funds. Photograph courtesy of juwi GmbH Posted 2 Sep 2007	Wyhlen Solar Location: BW Operator: Energiedienst AG Configuration: 72.5 kWp Operation: 1999 System supplier: ?? Photograph by NaturEnergie AG Posted 25 Apr 2004

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