Weesow-Willmersdorf solar park

Weesow-Willmersdorf solar park
	location
	Brandenburg , Germany
Coordinates	52 ° 39 '2 " N , 13 ° 41' 12" E Coordinates: 52 ° 39 '2 " N , 13 ° 41' 12" E
country	Germany
place	Werneuchen
	Data
Type	Photovoltaic power plant
Primary energy	solar power
power	187 MW p (electrical)
owner	EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg
operator	EnBW Solarpark Weesow-Willmersdorf GmbH
Project start	2009
Start of operations	2020 (planned)
Energy fed in per year	180 GWh
Website	EnBW
was standing	March 2020

The Weesow-Willmersdorf solar park is an open-air photovoltaic system implemented by EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg in Werneuchen ( Brandenburg ). When it goes into operation in 2020, the solar park will be the largest solar park in Germany with more than 180 MW _{p.It will also be} one of the first solar parks in Germany that does not take advantage of government subsidies from the Renewable Energy Sources Act . Instead, the project is to be refinanced exclusively through proceeds generated on the free market.

According to EnBW, this is possible because the costs of photovoltaics have fallen by more than 80 percent within a decade and a long service life for the system can be assumed. In October 2019, EnBW made the final investment decision. The company specifies a high double-digit million amount as the cost of the project.

History and technology

The project was originally developed by the Cottbus company Procon Solar GmbH, and in mid-2018 it was taken over by EnBW. Construction of the facility, which is expected to supply energy for 40 years, began in March 2020. Commissioning is scheduled for the same year.

A total of around 465,000 solar modules are to be installed on an area of 164 hectares in the Weesow and Willmersdorf districts . The forecast annual standard energy capacity should be 180 GWh . This corresponds to the annual electricity demand of around 50,000 households. This should save around 129,000 tons of the climate-damaging greenhouse gas carbon dioxide per year .

Network connection

The energy produced is fed in via two underground cables with a length of around 4 and 7 kilometers respectively in two transformer stations built especially for the solar park . The regional network operator E.DIS Netz is responsible for the network connection at 110 kV high voltage level .

Zoning plan

With the development plan Energiepark Weesow-Willmersdorf , usage specifications and a concept of measures for the protection, maintenance and development of nature and landscape have been established.

Usage requirements

Permission to operate the solar systems until the end of 2061
Limitation of the sealing to 5 percent of the area
The areas below the modules are to be converted from arable land to grassland and sown with a mixture of herbs and grass from local species appropriate to the location
The grassland areas are to be maintained by cutting
On the surfaces not allowed to herbicides nor pesticides are applied
Paths are only to be constructed in a structure that is permeable to water and air

Action plan

Planting of shrub hedges area native shrub and tree species ( maple , sycamore , bird cherry , sessile oak , English oak , rowan , hornbeam , dogwood , European hazel , Midland Hawthorn , Hawthorn , Euonymus europaeus , buckthorn , blackthorn , buckthorn , dog rose , Hedge rose , wine rose , black elderberry , service tree , common snowball )
Conditioning of Benjes hedges with gebietsheimischem pruning
Creation of stepping stone biotopes
Planting English oaks
Planting fruit trees of typical regional fruit types ( crab apple , wild pear )
Development of species-rich extensive grassland
Succession

Weesower Luch

In the south, the solar park area borders on the Weesower Luch nature conservation and FFH area . This lynx marks the habitat types of lean lowland hay meadows and natural eutrophic lakes with magnopotamion or hydrocharition vegetation . The Appendix II species are protected : fire- bellied toad , northern crested newt and large fire butterfly

Web links

City of Werneuchen Information on the land use and development plan
Weesow-Willmersdorf energy park - 2060 Procon-Solar
Green light for Germany's largest solar park , press release from EnBW. Retrieved October 16, 2019.

Individual evidence

↑ EnBW wants to build Germany's largest solar park - and is planning without state subsidies . In: Handelsblatt , February 5, 2019. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
↑ ^a ^b EnBW is building Germany's largest solar park in Brandenburg . In: Wirtschaftswoche , October 16, 2019. Accessed October 16, 2019.
↑ Germany's largest solar park planned near Werneuchen. rbb24 , October 16, 2019, accessed October 17, 2019 .
↑ EnBW starts construction of its 187 megawatt large subsidy-free solar park . In: PV magazine , March 16, 2020. Accessed March 16, 2020.
↑ ^a ^b Green light for Germany's largest solar park . Press release from EnBW. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
↑ Start of construction for Germany's largest solar park in Brandenburg . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , March 18, 2020. Retrieved March 19, 2020.

[1] EnBW wants to build Germany's largest solar park - and is planning without state subsidies . In: Handelsblatt , February 5, 2019. Retrieved October 16, 2019.

[Wiwo-2] EnBW is building Germany's largest solar park in Brandenburg . In: Wirtschaftswoche , October 16, 2019. Accessed October 16, 2019.

[3] Germany's largest solar park planned near Werneuchen. rbb24 , October 16, 2019, accessed October 17, 2019 .

[4] EnBW starts construction of its 187 megawatt large subsidy-free solar park . In: PV magazine , March 16, 2020. Accessed March 16, 2020.

[PM-5] Green light for Germany's largest solar park . Press release from EnBW. Retrieved October 16, 2019.

[6] Start of construction for Germany's largest solar park in Brandenburg . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , March 18, 2020. Retrieved March 19, 2020.