Featured in Solar America – 06-2010

Not your usual parking lot

Trackers: On the Amazon parking lot in Bad Hersfeld, Hesse, Germany, a dual-axis tracker system was built instead of the usual PV car port. A cool solution, but is it also economically feasible in an area where the cost-effectiveness of tracker systems hovers at zero, in a never-ending gamble with the weather? Investment alternatives and feed-in tariff options also have to be considered.

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07 Sep 2010

The local tourist hype likes to tout the region around Bad Hersfeld as “Waldhessen” (Sylvan Hesse), but further south, around Frankfurt/Main, an ugly word persists for this area of low mountains on the former border to the Soviet zone of occupied Germany. They call it “Hessian Siberia” because of the cold winter and often dark …

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