40 MW solar PV station connected to grid

BRANDIS/KÖTHEN, GERMANY, January 6, 2009. The German juwi group has completed grid connection of its 40 MW Waldpolenz energy park in Brandis, near Leipzig in eastern Germany.

“We’ve completed a one-of-a-kind project in which grid connection happened even faster than we anticipated,” comments juwi branch director, Ingo Rödner.

The photovoltaic (PV) solar power station generates some 40 million kWh annually. It has a surface area of more than 100 hectares and features 550,000 thin-film modules supplied by First Solar.

As general contractor juwi directed the planning, logistics and construction site management.