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Plans for 10 MW PV park in Germany

PowerLight and K & S Consulting have plans for installations equal to 10 MW in Bavaria, Germany.

	© PowerLight Corporation
PowerLight intends to use its PowerTracker, a one-axis tracker driven by a 700 W motor (pictured above), as the mounting system for a 10 MW solar park in Germany.

About one year ago, Harald Schützeichel, then chairman of S.A.G. Solarstrom AG, and K&S Consulting GmbH & Co. KG managing director Jochen Kleimaier presented their plan to make the German district of Neumarkt »the world's most important location for PV power production« (see PI 4/2003, p. 9). Their plan projected a PV park with seven locations and a total power of 10 MW. The park was supposed to kick off in April 2003 at a location in the municipality of Günching in southern Germany, though that eventually fell through. According to reports, the unnamed investor for the project wanted to hold off until after the amendment of the Renewable Energy Law (EEG).

One year later, Regensburg-based K&S Consulting is breathing new life into its old plans. At the end of January, Kleimaier announced that he had acquired building permits in the district of Neumarkt for a 1.9 MW system in Günching and a 6.2 MW system in Mühlhausen. Joining those systems will be a 1.9 MW power plant in Dietersburg. The company has a building permit for that system as well. Freiburg-based S.A.G. is no longer participating in the 10 MW project. Rather, K&S sold the rights in Oct. 2003 to US company PowerLight Corp. – a former partner of S.A.G. PowerLight plans to finance all three systems together through one investment fund, says Michael Sommer from PowerLight Europe. Negotiations regarding this possibility are still underway.