KPV Solar quadruples output of Energie AG plant in Eberstalzell

The trusting cooperation between KPV Solar and Energie AG, which has existed for more than 10 years, has led to the implementation of a new project.
This partnership began with the development and construction of power plants for Energie AG in Italy.

This year, the largest PV research facility in Eberstalzell was supplemented by a technically independent plant. The existing plant at Energie AG’s SolarCampus has already been supplying electricity from solar energy since 2010. The addition of further PV modules now fully uses the existing space and even quadruples the power plant’s output.

This has increased the generation capacity by 3.327.28 kWp, so that in future 1.200 instead of the original 300 households can be supplied with clean PV-electricity from Eberstalzell.

In this second construction phase, 8.746 380 Wp modules from JA Solar were installed on FS Uno substructures from Schletter, in combination with 28 inverters SUN2000 100KTL-M1 from Huawei.

What is special about the project is that that existing plant has not only been extended to the south and north, adjacent to the existing system, but also the area between the existing module rows has been used.

largest solar thermal plant in Austria opened

In Friesach in the Carinthian district of St.Veit an der Glan the largest solar thermal plant in Austria was recently opened. Climate Protection Minister Leonore Gewessler (Greens) and Governor Peter Kaiser (SPÖ) were present at the opening.

On an area of 5,700 square meters, KPV Solar has installed a solar thermal system with 436 large-area collectors from the austrian manufacturer GreenOneTec. The operator is Unser Kraftwerk, which initiated the project through citizen participation. As usual, committed citizens were able to participate in the project and receive an annual payment.

The generated heat is fed into the district heating network of Kelag Wärme GmbH via a 1000 m³ buffer storage tank and distributed from there to the district heating customers in Friesach. The plant thus supplies, in the summer months, the complete hot water demand of the regional district heating customers.

The plant generates an output of 2.5 gigawatt hours, which corresponds to an annual consumption of 500 apartments.

Further readings (german) :

HLK-Magazin:
www.hlk.co.at/a/groesste-solarthermie-anlage-oesterreichs-eroeffnet

Industriemagazin:
www.industriemagazin.at/a/groesste-solarthermie-anlage-oesterreichs-eroeffnet

Salzburger Nachrichten:
www.sn.at/wirtschaft/oesterreich/groesste-solarthermie-anlage-oesterreichs-eroeffnet-108094495

Kleine Zeitung:
www.kleinezeitung.at/wirtschaft/wirtschaftaufmacher/6021745/Grossprojekt_Groesste-SolarthermieAnlage-Oesterreichs-in-Friesach

“The steel construction for the 1,000 cubic meter heat storage has already been completed. The next step is to coat the heat accumulator with insulating material, ”says Gerhard Rabensteiner from “Unser Kraftwerk”

Read the entire article here: https://www.meinbezirk.at/st-veit/c-wirtschaft/rascher-baufortschritt-bei-der-solarthermie-fuer-die-fernwaerme_a4526306