Power-One, a member of the ABB Group and the worlds second largest designer and manufacturer of photovoltaic inverters, announced today that the companys AURORA TRIO string inverters were used in Europes largest crystalline roof-top solar installation. The 8.1 MW solar plant, which is located in Heddesheim in the south of Germany, was designed and built by WIRSOL, an international solar service provider.
With a total area of 27 acres, the project has been installed on the roofs of two building blocks of the sustainably built logistic center multi cube rhein-neckar. During a short construction time of only four weeks, WIRSOL installed over 33,000 crystalline PV modules and 255 of Power-Ones AURORA TRIO-27.6-TL-OUTD inverters. The solar installation was connected to the grid at the end of July and will be used to supplement the energy demand of plant owner pfenning logistics GmbH, thereby making the plant the largest self-consumption PV installation in Europe so far.
The PV installations annual energy production is expected to equal the yearly consumption of approximately 1,846 families. This solar plant will save the logistic company up to 5,171 tons of CO2 emissions per year, which equals the annual CO2 amount produced by 554 citizens.
Mirko Schieszl, Technical Director at WIRSOL, appreciates the inverters reliability and easy handling: The AURORA TRIO inverters have very low maintenance cost and do not require highly trained professionals in case of replacement.
As the cost of electricity rises globally, PV installations offer company owners an attractive option to reduce energy bills by producing a portion of the electricity themselves, said Alex Levran, president of Renewable Energy Solutions at Power-One. This project completed by our long-standing European partner, WIRSOL, demonstrates that the use of photovoltaics still pays off for investors despite the recent feed-in tariff reductions or other regulatory fees.
