Photovoltaic system Kobern-Gondorf

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Photovoltaic system and test area Kobern-Gondorf
The photovoltaic system with the main building in the background
The photovoltaic system with the main building in the background
location
Photovoltaic system Kobern-Gondorf (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Photovoltaic system Kobern-Gondorf
Coordinates 50 ° 17 '38 "  N , 7 ° 27' 18"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '38 "  N , 7 ° 27' 18"  E
country GermanyGermany Germany
Data
Type Photovoltaic system
Primary energy solar power
power initially 340 kWp,
today 500 kWp
operator VIVA Solar Energietechnik
(until 2009: RWE )
Start of operations 17th October 1988
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The photovoltaic system Kobern-Gondorf is a photovoltaic system in Kobern-Gondorf on the north bank of the Lower Moselle near Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate .

At the time of completion in 1988, the solar power plant was the largest of its kind in Europe with a peak output of 340  kWp . It was planned and built by the operator RWE Energie in cooperation with the plant manufacturer AEG for test and demonstration purposes.

The site has an area of ​​around 60,000 m². The system is largely designed as an open-space system . The module tables are arranged around a central building, which is used for the management of the plant, but also as an information and seminar center. In the first stage of expansion (1988–1991) the system consisted of around 7800 modules (approx. 340,000 solar cells) from various technologies and countries of origin, which were interconnected in 8 generator groups.

Building on the first findings from the Kobern-Gondorf plant, RWE built a second, similar plant in 1991 with the Neurather See photovoltaic plant near Grevenbroich - Neurath .

At the beginning of 2009 the system in Kobern-Gondorf was handed over by RWE to the company VIVA Solar Energietechnik from Andernach . Viva Solar renewed a large part of the now obsolete or defective modules and added new modules with an output of 140 kWp so that the system output was increased to 500 kWp. The system is used today for commercial electricity production, but also as a test field for PV modules, tracking systems and inverters.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c VIVA Solar Energietechnik GmbH (Ed.): Open house on May 8, 2010. VIVA Solar gives an insight into the photovoltaic test area Kobern-Gondorf . Display. Andernach 2010 ( ( page no longer available , search in web archives: online as PDF )).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vivasolar.de
  2. ^ A b c Christian Daberkow: Solar energy in Germany . Technical work in geography. 1997 ( full text online ( memento of January 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive )).
  3. ↑ Large- scale photovoltaic system Kobern-Gondorf. Energieprofi.eu, accessed on January 18, 2013 . (Note: the source incorrectly states a peak power of "around 1 MW" [sic!]. This is probably a mix-up.)
  4. ^ Leonhard Müller: Handbook of the electricity industry: Technical, economic and legal bases . 2nd Edition. Springer, 2001, ISBN 3-540-67637-6 , pp. 234 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ^ Photovoltaic test center Kobern-Gondorf. (No longer available online.) Eifel Future Initiative, archived from the original ; Retrieved January 18, 2013 .