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A dependable PPArtner for subsidy-free PV

The falling cost of PV has increasingly driven the adoption of solar technology in recent years. But for a long time, the solar industry was fully dependent on subsidies. German PV project developer BayWa r.e. made headlines in 2018 with its 175 MW Don Rodrigo plant just outside of Seville, in southern Spain. The company backed the array with a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA), marking the first time a project of that size had been refinanced in Europe without the help of subsidies. It later charted new territory again with the completion of Germany’s first subsidy-free PV project in 2019.

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pv magazine

25 Jun 2020

BayWa’s Barth V project is Germany’s first subsidy-free solar plant. | Photo: BayWa r.e.

BayWa r.e.’s subsidy-free Don Rodrigo solar plant was a remarkable achievement. The project site, located on the southern tip of Spain, is also blessed with some of the best irradiation conditions for solar power generation in Europe. So when the company announced that it would do it again – this time in northern Germany with …

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