Carport PV system with 4 MW at Weeze Airport – construction phase of only 4 weeks

10/31/2016 | Print view

66 solar carports with 4 MW for 1,350 vehicles have been installed at Weeze Airport in Germany. - © Gottfried Evers — © Gottfried Evers

66 solar carports with 4 MW for 1,350 vehicles have been installed at Weeze Airport in Germany.

The biggest solar carport in Germany started operation at Weeze Airport. It offers space for 1,350 vehicles and has an installed capacity of four MW.

Trina Solar supplied the photovoltaic modules. The project was managed by EEPro GmbH. The 66 carports of Schletter have a length of up to 35 metres, and a width of up to 13 metres.

Modular carport system

The Schletter carport system Park@Sol is designed as a modular system, that can be adapted to the local site conditions. At the beginning of the project ground surveys and sample rammings were carried out. After the foundation, the mounting structures of Schletter were installed and the trapezoidal plates were fixed.

70 installers at the construction site

In total, 15,296 pieces of multicrystalline solar modules from the Honey series (TSM-PC05A) made by Trina Solar were used with a total peak power of four MW. The modules were delivered by Trina Solar during the short four-week construction phase in late July and early August 2016. 70 skilled workers installed the system at the private airport. The PV facility approved by TÜV-Rheinland already feeds energy into the grid of regional distributor Westnetz. (HCN)