LAPP signposts the future of photovoltaics with 11.5MW green energy in Austria

摘要

Anyone who doubts that solar power is about to make a major contribution to the planet's clean-green energy output might pause to consider some statistics provided by LAPP Australia about one of the LAPP Group's recent eco-friendly projects. The new system, which began operation in Schonkirchen-Reyersdorf near Vienna, Austria late last year combines 34,600 solar modules to generate 11.5 megawatts, or almost 11 gigawatt-hours of electrical energy a year. The facility produces enough energy to satisfy the consumption of 3,400 households, saving some 8,000 tons of C0_2(e) emiisions annually. The new solar facility-Austria's largest - is still being developed to provide even greater capacity on a site covering 13.3 hectares, which is equivalent to 18 football fields, or six times the playing surface of the largest sporting stadium in the Southern Hemisphere, the Melbourne Cricket Ground. LAPP Australia General Manager, Simon Pullinger, says the project- for which the global parent company supplied 180km of its Olflex® solar cables for the DC section of the photo voltaic modules alone - also absorbed a wide range of other products available in Australia to withstand the rigours of outdoor operations at solar and wind farms and clean-green water plants.