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Brandenburg, Werneuchen: Solar panels stand close together in Germany's largest solar park
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The energy supplier EnBW wants to expand Germany's largest solar park.
In 2021 two parks are to be built in the Brandenburg district of Märkisch-Oderland and go into operation, as a spokeswoman for the Karlsruhe energy company said.
Combined with an already running system in Werneuchen, also in Brandenburg, more than 130,000 households could be completely supplied with solar power.
The solar systems together achieve roughly the capacity of a coal-fired power plant block with an output of almost 500 megawatts.
“We are showing here that solar energy is possible on a large scale,” said Dirk Güsewell from EnBW to the “Handelsblatt”.
The newspaper had previously reported on the project.
Accordingly, the energy company wants to invest around a quarter of a billion euros in the region.
EnBW recently fed the first electricity from the solar park in Werneuchen - the largest in Germany - into the grid.
Around 465,000 solar modules are to produce electricity there for around 50,000 households and thus avoid around 129,000 tons of CO₂ annually, it said last week.
Germany recently achieved a solar power record
In Germany, between the beginning of the year and the end of October, more electricity was generated with solar energy than in the entire previous year.
According to calculations by the energy company Eon, solar systems have so far fed around 43 billion kilowatt hours of electricity into the grid in 2020.
That is about one billion kilowatt hours more than in the whole of 2019, according to the Eon analysis.
According to Eon, the entire production of green electricity in Germany is on record course.
Since January, wind turbines, solar and biomass systems, hydropower plants and other renewable energy sources have fed in around 195 billion kilowatt hours of electricity.
Last year there were 187 billion kilowatt hours up to the end of October, which means an increase of a good four percent.
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