Lauingen Energy Park

Lauingen Energy Park
solar park Lauingen Energy Park
Location of Lauingen Energy Park in Germany
Country	Germany
Location	Lauingen
Coordinates
Status	Operational
Construction began	2008
Commission date	June 2010
Solar field
Type	Flat-panel PV
Site area	63 ha (155.7 acres)
Power generation
Units operational	306,084 (288,132 First Solar 17,952 Yingli)
Nameplate capacity	25.7 MW
Annual generation	26.98 GWh

The Lauingen Energy Park is a 27.7-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.

The project was built in three phases:

• The 12.0 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:

• 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.

Gallery

• Gehrlicher Solar AG Energiepark Lauingen BauabschnittI.JPG
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See also

• Photovoltaics
• Photovoltaic power station
• List of largest power stations in the world
• Solar power in Germany