Canon has installed additional photovoltaic modules on the roofs of its company buildings in Poing.
This makes the system the largest of its kind in Germany.
Poing - One and a half years after the large photovoltaic system went into operation, Canon Poing has done it again: had additional modules installed on the company's roofs.
Not least because of the good experience and results of the previous system.
According to Stefan Speer (Head of Electrical Engineering), this generated a total of 1.242 million kilowatt hours of electricity from solar energy between mid-March and December 2020 - more than was forecast at the start.
According to Speer, an annual output of 1.464 million kilowatt hours was assumed, which would have been 1.159 million kilowatt hours over nine months.
For 2021 Speer reported that the forecast annual yield will be exceeded in October.
Poing: When the sun is in a good position, complete electricity from your own system
In March 2021 Canon decided to expand the facility at the Poing site, Stefan Speer reported at an appointment with District Administrator Robert Niedergesäß and Mayor Thomas Stark.
The new modules are now also on the network.
The district company Eberwerk GmbH had again received the order for the installation.
Its managing director Dr.
Markus Henle said at the presentation that the entire system on the roofs of Canon is probably the largest of its kind in Germany.
"Your kind", because the modules in Poing are equipped with solar edge optimizers for even more performance.
Economics Minister Aiwanger already praised the project
When the first, large part was presented on Canon's company roofs in the summer of 2020, there was already great praise - at the time from Bavaria's Minister of Economic Affairs, Hubert Aiwanger, who had come to Poing especially.
He said the project was a role model and “shining example for all large roof areas.
Germany-wide, Europe-wide, worldwide. "
Poing: fuel pumps for 60 hybrids or e-cars
At the current presentation of the expansion, Stefan Speer said that the PV system could partially supply the entire plant in one day (“if the sun is good”).
The system saves Canon 976 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year, he reported.
The electricity generated by the solar energy is used both for the buildings and for the e-fuel pumps on the company car park: Canon currently has 60 hybrids or e-cars.
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