Lauingen Energy Park

The Lauingen Energy Park is a 25.7–megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power station, located in Bavarian Swabia, Germany. It covers an area of and was commissioned in June 2010.

The project was built in three phases:

• The 10.0 MW Helmeringen 1 (already commissioned in 2009)
• The 9.4 MW Helmeringen 2
• The 6.3 MW Helmeringen 3 (built and commissioned in 2010)

The largest solar power station in Swabia was built by the German company Gehrlicher Solar and features the following key figures:

• 288,132 thin-film modules using cadmium telluride photovoltaics (CdTe PV) manufactured by U.S. company First Solar
• 17,952 conventional solar panels based using crystalline silicon photovoltaics manufactured by Chinese company Yingli
• 18 SMA solar inverters
• 3 Siemens central inverters
• a total of 664 km solar cable trays
• a projected generation of almost 27 million kilowatt-hours (kWh)
• an avoided 14,353 tons of CO₂ per year
• powers about 7,500 average households with clean energy, where average means a three-person household with an annual electricity consumption of 3,500 kWh.

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See also

• Photovoltaics
• Photovoltaic power station
• List of largest power stations in the world
• Solar power in Germany

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