The highlight: for the first time, the project in the communities of Lärz and Rechlin will be supplemented by a battery storage system with a capacity of seven megawatt hours, so that the electricity generated will be buffered and also available at night. However, it was the award of the contract to Rheinenergie in the innovation tender of the Federal Network Agency that made the project possible in the first place. The utility was awarded a contract for 20 megawatts, which makes the combination of solar plant and battery storage particularly attractive.
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Rheinenergie is now marketing the remaining part of the plant without state subsidies. The battery storage system makes it possible to efficiently store surplus electricity and call it up when needed. By October 2023, Goldbeck Solar plans to install more than 56,800 solar modules on an area of around 30 hectares. The planned commissioning of the solar park is scheduled for early 2024. (nhp/mfo)
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