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Weierweiler: Ground-breaking ceremony for Saarland’s largest solar park

In future, enough green electricity is to be produced on an area of 12.49 hectares just outside Weierweiler to supply thousands of households in Saarland.

The fact that the ground-breaking ceremony for Saarland’s largest solar park in Weierweiler could only be celebrated in a small circle on Wednesday was due to coronavirus. “The invitation to the neighboring citizens will follow later,” assured Andreas Thiele, Managing Partner of Sunera erneuerbare Energien GmbH. But a little later, Weiskirchen’s mayor Wolfgang Hübschen learned the figures that make the second construction phase of this solar park at the gates of the climatic health resort currently the largest in Saarland. “This second construction phase is again being realized by Sunera from Sulzbach (investor and client) with Goldbeck Solar GmbH from Hirschberg (general contractor),” and Hermann Lang (Sunera) added, “together with the first construction phase, which was already completed in 2017, the Weierweiler solar park is currently the largest in Saarland with a total of 20 megawatts (MW).” Once completed, this output could supply around 6,000 three-person households with green electricity. If the total of 63,426 modules from both construction phases produce around 20,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of environmentally friendly electricity in the coming year, they would also save around 10,000 tons of CO2. The completion of this second construction phase and the feeding of electricity into the public grid is planned for August 2020. In this context, Thiele proudly pointed out that the electricity produced from the new construction phase will be particularly cheap, costing around 5.2 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) over a period of 20 years. In contrast, other electricity generators such as onshore wind power require production costs of around six cents per kWh in order to be operated economically.

 

The Weierweiler solar park covers a total area of 12.49 hectares, spread over five individual areas in the hilly landscape just outside Weierweiler. The huge installation is barely visible from the roads passing by. Yesterday, Weiskirchen’s mayor Hübschen also referred to this successful integration into the surrounding nature, saying that he was happy and grateful for this project, which, apart from its important contribution to both ecological and economical energy generation, was also easily compatible with the goals of Saarland’s only climatic health resort. When those responsible then took up their spades at the appropriate distance from the coronavirus, Alexander Gutsch, Sales Manager at Goldbeck Solar, pointed out the increasingly important role of green electricity, without which Saarland would not be able to realize its prospects as a future hydrogen country. “Only with this green electricity, for example from such solar parks, will it soon be possible to produce hydrogen in the quantities required to make hydrogen-powered cars an attractive alternative to e-cars on the Saar.” In this context, the mayor gladly accepted the thanks of the developers for the fact that this major project, unlike many others, especially wind turbines, can be realized without major protests from the population. For his part, Hübschen assured that this was also and not least due to the successful public relations work of those responsible. All of this could then be celebrated with the citizens once the coronavirus crisis had hopefully been overcome. Source: Rundschau for Merzig-Wadern
Photo: Dieter Ackermann


The ground-breaking ceremony was attended by (from left): Benedikt Heinen (Goldbeck), Mayor Wolfgang Hübschen, Hermann Lang (Sunera), Andreas Thiele (Sunera) and Alexander Gutsch (Goldbeck).

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