Featured in The fires feeding mono's rise – 11-2018

Getting rolling

The first companies are demonstrating that today it can be worthwhile commercially to back electric vehicles in combination with solar generation and storage. Particularly in the case of public charging stations, solar power used for electric vehicle charging could become the basis for a profitable operator model in the future.

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Sandra Enkhardt

02 Nov 2018

This public charging station is located in an industrial area of Chemnitz, Germany, directly opposite the module factory of Heckert Solar. The manufacturer supplied the solar modules for the project. | Image: Heckert Solar

It must have been a delight for Daniel Brandl to win this commission. He is known in the industry for his advocacy of electromobility in combination with large commercial PV installations. Through his company Orange Solar, he was selected to participate in Germany’s largest electric charging station to date: the new multi-story parking garage of …

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