Frankfurt Airport now produces its own solar power – with a photovoltaic system in the megawatt range. The system was built on the roof of the Swissport freight hall by GOLDBECK SOLAR.
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Frankfurt Airport now produces its own solar power – with a photovoltaic system in the megawatt range. The system was built on the roof of the Swissport freight hall by GOLDBECK SOLAR.
We recently handed over a major solar project to Fraport AG, the company that operates Frankfurt Airport: the airport’s first own photovoltaic system in the megawatt range. GOLDBECK SOLAR realized the solar roof on the Swissport cargo hall. The solar modules in CargoCity South are the cornerstone for clean energy generation at Frankfurt Airport. 450 households with four people each could be supplied with the electricity generated. The 1.5 million kilowatt hours produced annually by the system are now being used in various properties at the airport and will later also be used in Terminal 3 for air conditioning and for operating other building technology such as lighting, elevators, escalators and similar.
“The megawatt system on the roof of the Swissport freight hall is the first indirect collaboration with Fraport AG,” explains Dirk Zell, Project Manager at GOLDBECK SOLAR. “We were able to realize the project in 2.5 months construction time, a really good cooperation.” Around 4,000 solar modules and 24 Core1 inverters from SMA were used for the solar roof, which was implemented together with Premium Mounting Technologies. Generating the electricity required for the properties itself with the help of renewable energies is part of Fraport AG’s long-term goal of reducing its own ecological footprint. Using the large-area roofs to generate electricity is an important step in this direction. An overview of the project can be found on our reference page.
