Lauingen Energy Park

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Lauingen Energy Park
solar park
Lauingen Energy Park
CountryGermany
LocationLauingen
Coordinates48°32′13″N 10°25′27″E / 48.53694°N 10.42417°E / 48.53694; 10.42417Coordinates: 48°32′13″N 10°25′27″E / 48.53694°N 10.42417°E / 48.53694; 10.42417
StatusOperational
Construction began2008[1]
Commission dateJune 2010[2]
Solar farm
TypeFlat-panel PV
Site area63 ha (155.7 acres)
Power generation
Units operational306,084
(288,132 First Solar
17,952 Yingli)
Nameplate capacity25.7 MW
Capacity factor12.0%
Annual net output26.98 GWh[3]

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]

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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