Building Approval Granted for 40 MW Photovoltaic Project (Germany)

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The juwi group based in Bolanden in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, has received building approval for the world’s biggest photovoltaic (PV) power system. At a former military air base to the east of Leipzig, juwi is installing a 40-megawatt solar power system using state-ofthe- art thin-film technology, to be finished by the end of 2009.

The installation in the Muldentalkreis district in the state of Saxony in eastern Germany will be built on half of the location’s 220 hectares in the townships of Brandis and Bennewitz. The area is about one kilometre wide and approximately two kilometres long. It takes more than an hour to walk around it.

“The surface area of the PV installation compares to about 200 soccer fields,” says juwi co-managing director Matthias Willenbacher. The world’s biggest solar power plant at a glance:

The “Waldpolenz” solar park, as it will be called, is a milestone for the juwi group and photovoltaic (PV) technology in general.

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