Lauingen Energy Park
The Lauingen Energy Park is a 25.7–megawatt photovoltaic power station, located in Bavarian Swabia, Germany. It covers an area of and was commissioned in June 2010.
The project was built in three phases:
The largest solar power station in Swabia was built by the German company Gehrlicher Solar and features the following key figures:
- 288,132 thin-film modules using cadmium telluride photovoltaics manufactured by U.S. company First Solar
- 17,952 conventional solar panels based using crystalline silicon photovoltaics manufactured by Chinese company Yingli
- 18 SMA solar inverters
- 3 Siemens central inverters
- a total of 664 km solar cable trays
- a projected generation of almost 27 million kilowatt-hours
- an avoided 14,353 tons of CO2 per year
- powers about 7,500 average households with clean energy, where average means a three-person household with an annual electricity consumption of 3,500 kWh.