08/28/2023
Source: Energy & Management Powernews
To remove the electricity from the 125 MW solar park, two 82-ton transformers have now been delivered by heavy transporter.
On September 28, the official opening ceremony for the Bundorf solar park will take place. With a capacity of 125 MW and an expected annual amount of electricity of 131 million kWh, it is then, according to the operators, the largest solar park in the Free State of Bavaria. The municipality of Bundorf is located in Lower Franconia, about 80 kilometers northeast of Würzburg.
The park is being built by project developer Maxsolar GmbH from Traunstein, Bavaria, which is also the general contractor and co-investor in the 85-million-euro project. The energy cooperative Inn-Salzach eG (Egis) holds around 30 percent of the land, part of which is to be made available for the planned district heating project. The rest will be held permanently by Maxsolar, according to the Traunstein-based company. The electricity quantities are to be marketed via longer-term PPAs.
The groundbreaking for the project was a year ago in October. After completion, more than 232,000 photovoltaic modules will generate electricity on an area of 125 hectares. In order to lead this into the high voltage net, it needs the two 82 tons heavy transformers, which are now developed at the new transformer station in Aidhausen Kerbfeld.
In the Egis eG about 1,600 citizens and citizens, municipalities as well as enterprises united. In addition to the construction of the photovoltaic park, a district heating network with a pipeline length of 1.6 kilometers is to be built in the Bundorf municipal area by 2024. The concept plans to generate heat by means of a 200-kW heat pump and a 400-kW electric boiler.
According to Maxsolar, a 75,000-liter hot water buffer will also be installed. As redundancy serves in the winter a wood chip boiler with 200 kW, which is to cover for maximally 1,600 hours the peak load and sun-poor winter times.
Author: Stefan Sagmeister
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