Lieberose solar park

Lieberose solar park
	Aerial view of the Lieberose solar park
	location
	Brandenburg , Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 55 '55 " N , 14 ° 24' 26" E Coordinates: 51 ° 55 '55 " N , 14 ° 24' 26" E
country	Germany
	Data
Type	Photovoltaic system
Primary energy	solar power
power	52.79 megawatts
Energy fed in per year	52 GWh

At the time of commissioning, the Lieberose solar park on the former military training area in the municipality of Turnow-Preilack near Lieberose in Brandenburg was the largest solar power plant in Germany with a nominal peak output of 52,790 kW . It was realized by juwi in cooperation with the thin-film module manufacturer First Solar .

The park extends over an area of 162 hectares (= 1.62 km² ) and consists of around 700,000 thin-film modules. These were mainly produced in the First Solar plant in Frankfurt / Oder. The module area is approx. 500,000 m². Leichtmetallbau Schletter GmbH from Bavaria was also involved in the construction .

prehistory

Due to its long-term use as a military training area, the area was contaminated with remains of ammunition. Ammunition was removed from the area for the construction of the Lieberose solar park and was thus available again as usable area after the project was completed.

The investment costs of approx. 160 million euros were financed 20 percent from equity and 80 percent from outside capital.

power

The solar power plant contains 700,000 thin-film modules of the type First Solar FS-272-277 with an efficiency of around 10% and 38 inverters from SMA Solar Technology . It produces 52 gigawatt hours per year (corresponding to the annual requirements of over 15,000 households). With 8760 annual operating hours, this corresponds to an arithmetically average output of approx. 6 MW. It saves around 35,000 tons of CO ₂ per year. This is the same amount of CO ₂ that an average German forest can store over an area of around 27 km² in one year. As planned, the solar park will remain on the grid for at least 20 years.

Feed-in and remuneration

The generated electrical energy is fed into the 110 kV high-voltage network of Envia Mitteldeutsche Energie . The remuneration is EUR 0.3194 per kWh.

opening

The opening ceremony of the solar park took place on August 20, 2009, at which the Brandenburg Prime Minister Matthias Platzeck and the then Federal Minister of Transport Wolfgang Tiefensee were also on site.