The Puutionsaari project has now received the legally binding local development plan and can therefore go ahead with realisation, the renewable energy project planning company VSB announced in the last week of June. The plans envisage the construction of a wind farm consisting of 49 turbines in the seven-megawatt class with a total nominal output of 350 megawatts from 2025 and a solar farm with a further 100 MW. The hybrid park should then be fully feeding into the grid by 2028. However, final approval for the photovoltaic field is still pending and is expected to be granted by the autumn.
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VSB describes the project as "one of the most important hybrid park projects in the whole of Europe". It is also the most powerful green energy project planned by VSB to date.
Hybrid parks are intended to stabilise the weather-dependent generation of electricity from green power plants, because photovoltaic systems feed in electricity during the summer when there is little wind and only during the day when there is little cloud cover and at full or high capacity, while wind power plants often generate their electricity at night or when clouds are gathering and the weather changes. At the presentation of the project, VSB referred to the advantages of wind-solar power projects such as a "stable energy supply all year round". Thanks to its "efficient design, it enables problem-free connection to the national power grid without the need for additional power lines". VSB Managing Director Felix Grolman emphasised that the combination of solar and wind energy in hybrid projects is "an absolute key technology". (tw/mfo)
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