Featured in A new dawn – 12-2018

Grid parity’s muddy trails

Europe’s new breed of grid parity projects is mushrooming on the southern fringes of the continent. With governments’ flexible attitude towards remuneration, to the detriment of reliable planning, the desire to make grid parity projects work is strong, and its progress will likely spread north.

By

Marian Willuhn

03 Dec 2018

Benedikt Ortmann (right),leaps into the mud to explain some of the solar plant’s specifications. Cost cutting, for example, had been achieved by a wiring architecture that reduces the need for DC wiring. | Image: Marian Willuhn/ pv magazine

Benedikt Ortmann, Managing Director, BayWa r.e. Solar Projects GmbH sits behind the wheel. “I don’t think we can go there,” says his construction site manager, sitting in the passenger seat of the van. He points at a 10 meter wide, deep looking puddle in the middle of a solar park. It’s pouring cats and dogs …

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