Axpo’s solar and wind divisions Urbasolar and Volkswind have successfully secured a combined capacity of 163 megawatts (MW) in two recent public tenders – also including Agri PV and floating PV.
Axpo subsidiary Urbasolar has commenced operations at the largest rooftop solar plant in France in Beauvais, 80 kilometers north of Paris.
Axpo commenced construction on a 20 MW solar park in northern Italy. Its implementation is integrated into compensatory measures for local communities.
Following more than three years’ construction, Disneyland Paris and Axpo have equipped 11,200 parking spaces with solar panels. The solar parking canopy, currently the largest of its kind in Europe, will generate 36 gigawatt hours of green electricity a year.
Axpo is joining a large-scale green hydrogen project in the Abruzzo region of Italy. It includes a 30MW electrolyser powered by a 45MW solar plant
Axpo commissioned its first large-scale battery storage facility in Sweden. It was connected to the grid in Landskrona, in the south of the country.
The Swiss energy supplier Axpo is building two more solar parks in Italy. The Italian market is important for the company on its way to expanding its solar capacity to ten gigawatts in Europe.
Axpo and German industrial gas specialist Messer have concluded a long-term PPA. From 1 January 2024, Axpo will supply two Messer facilities in Germany with electricity produced by Südwerk solar plants based in Bavaria.
Axpo, Egmont, and Soltech Energy Solutions have signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for a new 11 MW solar plant in southern Sweden.
Following the commissioning of Switzerland's largest alpine solar plant to date in the municipality of Glarus Süd in August 2022, Axpo is now planning to build a ten-megawatt solar plant in the same region. The plant will supply particularly important winter electricity and also increase value creation in the municipality.
Back in September 2023, Axpo presented its plans for the construction of a 15-megawatt ground-mounted plant in Ilanz in the canton of Graubünden. The energy company is now planning a second ground-mounted plant in the municipality with a capacity of around 30 megawatts.
The plans for the expansion of solar generators high up in the Alps are extensive. But which projects will actually be realised is far from certain.
Axpo begins construction of the first solar plant in Spain in September 2023. The plant, with an installed capacity of 200 megawatts, is part of Axpo's ambition to develop ten gigawatts of additional capacity by 2030.
Axpo is to build its next alpine solar plant in the Disentis ski area in the Canton of Grisons. With an installed capacity of 10 MW, the ground-mounted plant will produce electricity right where it is needed.
Hamburg-based photovoltaic developer Enerparc AG has grid-connected its first hybrid project, consisting of a photovoltaic system and battery storage, in northern Germany.
Axpo will build a lithium-ion based 20MW/20MWh energy storage facility in Sweden to deliver services to the grid in 2024.
Axpo and Rhiienergie are building a hydrogen production facility at the Reichenau hydropower plant in Domat/Ems in Switzerland. The plant is scheduled to go into operation in the fall of 2023.
Axpo wants to install more than 1.2 gigawatts of solar power in the Alps and on the Swiss Plateau by 2030. This is also the result of improved political framework conditions for alpine installations. The next project is already being planned. A practical report:
The energy supplier intends to further promote the expansion of renewable energies in Switzerland and abroad. After ten years of development work, Axpo is now transferring its wind and solar business into two separate divisions.
The Alpinsolar power plant on the Muttsee dam at an altitude of 2,500 metres has an output of 2.2 megawatts. The solar installation in the Swiss Alps has been fully operational since the beginning of September. The highlight: during the winter months, it will produce three times more electricity than a comparable plant in the Swiss Lowlands.
Axpo announced recently that it intends to increase its contribution to renewables, and, with its subsidiary CKW, realise power plant projects on the scale of one billion Swiss francs by the year 2030.
Axpo has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Hamburg-based solar specialist Enerparc AG as the company continues to expand its solar PPA business in Germany.
Axpo has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the Danish company Obton A/S, a leading solar energy investor in Europe, for the Klatzow solar park currently under construction in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Axpo is continuing to expand its solar energy activities with the development of new plants in Spain, Italy and Poland totalling 4 GW of installed capacity.
Axpo has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for electricity from solar plants in Poland. Axpo's Warsaw-based subsidiary will market the electricity from the solar plants of R.Power Group, one of the fastest growing project developers of solar plants in Europe.
