The Lauingen Energy Park is a 25.7–megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power station, located in Bavarian Swabia, Germany. It covers an area of 63 hectares (155.7 acres) and was commissioned in June 2010.[2]
| Lauingen Energy Park | |
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 Lauingen Energy Park | |
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| Country | Germany |
| Location | Lauingen |
| Coordinates | 48°32′13″N 10°25′27″E / 48.53694°N 10.42417°E |
| Status | Operational |
| Construction began | 2008[1] |
| Commission date | June 2010[2] |
| Solar farm | |
| Type | Flat-panel PV |
| Site area | 63 ha (155.7 acres) |
| Power generation | |
| Units operational | 306,084 (288,132 First Solar 17,952 Yingli) |
| Nameplate capacity | 25.7 MW |
| Capacity factor | 12.0% |
| Annual net output | 26.98 GWh[3] |
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 and features the following key figures:[2]
- 288,132 thin-film modules using cadmium telluride photovoltaics (CdTe PV) manufactured by U.S. company First Solar
- 17,952 conventional solar panels based using crystalline silicon photovoltaics manufactured by Chinese company Yingli
- 18 SMA solar inverters
- 3 Siemens central inverters
- a total of 664 km solar cable trays
- a projected generation of almost 27 million kilowatt-hours (kWh)
- an avoided 14,353 tons of CO2 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.
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