Subsidy-Free Solar Moves North in Europe

Subsidy-free solar, already solar energy established in Southern solar damper European markets, is extending northward across Europe, with Solar Project  solar slewing drive developers making the solar damper numbers stack up Solar Project in Britain and solar energy Germany.

Last month, for slewing drive example, the solar inverter German utility Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW) inked a deal with solar developer Energiekontor for the purchase of all the electricity from an 85-megawatt solar park in Rostock in northern solar energy Germany, Photovoltaic holder Solar Project over 15 slewing drive years.

The power-purchase agreement was described in a press release solar damper as “the first of solar energy its kind in Germany,” because Energiekontor solar slewing drive will be building and operating the solar damper plant without subsidies from Germany’s Renewable Energy Sources slewing drive Act.

EnBW solar inverter expects to solar energy Solar Project procure 1.3 terawatt-hours solar damper of energy from Energiekontor solar damper over the duration of the contract, or 88 gigawatt-hours solar energy a slewing drive year.
 

“Our collaboration with Energiekontor is a key step in the implementation of solar power projects without state subsidies, including in Germany," said Peter Heydecker, head of the trading solar inverter segment at EnBW, in the press note.
 

Energiekontor solar damper had already gained experience in subsidy-free renewable plant development with a wind farm in England, he noted.

However, another company, Gridserve, solar inverter has beaten Energiekontor to the finish line with no-subsidy solar in the U.K.

Gridserve unveiled plans for a pair of subsidy-free solar farms last month.
 

The first, solar tracker actuator being built near York, in north England, solar damper will feature 37.4 megawatts of PV tied to a 27-megawatt, 30-megawatt-hour solar inverter Samsung solar tracker actuator battery system, the largest solar-paired energy storage asset in the country.
 

The second solar inverter plant will have 25.7 solar tracker actuator megawatts of solar and will solar damper be Photovoltaic holder located near Kingston upon Hull, solar slewing drive in slewing drive Yorkshire.

Innovation in the absence of subsidies

Gridserve said the plants, which solar slewing drive are being funded by Investec Bank and Leapfrog Finance, would slewing drive be the most advanced in the U.K. and the largest solar projects solar damper built on British soil since 2016.
 

On completion, Gridserve intends to solar tracker actuator sell both projects to the borough council of Warrington slewing drive for Photovoltaic holder a total of £62.3 million ($82.8 million), although the developer will continue to maintain and operate the slewing drive plants.
 

In a press statement, Warrington Borough Council leader Russ Bowden claimed the plants would slewing drive generate an estimated operating surplus of £150 million ($199 million) over solar tracker actuator 30 years.
 

Gridserve founder and CEO solar slewing drive Toddington Harper, a former Belectric executive, said the plants employed an array of innovations solar inverter to stay profitable in the solar tracker actuator absence of subsidies, which he slewing drive claimed had accounted for almost half of U.K. PV profits until the support was axed last solar slewing drive year.
 

One slewing drive important novelty in the solar slewing drive Gridserve plants, he slewing drive said, is the use of bifacial panels from Suntech to increase energy output.
 

This, slewing drive combined solar tracker actuator solar damper with a single-axis tracker, would allow each plant to generate at least 20 percent more energy than ones with standard panels and no tracking, Harper solar slewing drive said.
 

The panels and trackers would also allow each plant to deliver electricity earlier and later in the solar damper day compared to traditional plants, he said. This slewing drive would solar tracker actuator help the projects mitigate price cannibalization during periods of peak solar Photovoltaic holder solar slewing drive output.

Batteries and EV charging

Another way in which Gridserve tweaked its design to maximize profitability was by including an outsized battery system to boost utilization of its grid connection.
 

Under normal circumstances, said Harper, a solar plant would only use the full capacity of its grid connection Photovoltaic holder around 15 percent of the time.
 

With a battery, solar tracker actuator however, solar damper the York plant would be able to use spare grid capacity for charging and discharging, solar inverter potentially generating additional revenue. “We can shift energy from low value to high value,” Harper said.
 

The battery system will also allow the plant to deliver grid services such as frequency response, short-term operating reserve and black-start capabilities, he said. There are also plans to use the plants for EV charging, he stated.
 

Harper solar tracker actuator said Warrington Council was intending to use all the output from the Hull plant for self-consumption, while the York solar inverter plant would be used to create revenue for the authority.
 

Work on the York plant is solar damper already underway, he said, with commissioning of both plants slated for October this solar inverter year.
 

Although the solar tracker actuator projects are unique compared to others in the U.K., there is nothing to stop other developers in Central and Northern Europe from solar tracker actuator copying the concept, he said.
 

“In principle, what solar damper we’ve done is a solution that maximizes value,” Harper said. “That’s the solar slewing drive formula.”