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Universities of Applied Sciences launch new platform for projects with alpine solar plants.
Switzerland

New platform for Alpine solar plants

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Four universities of applied sciences are launching a new platform for Alpinsolar projects. This provides an overview of the current status of all planned, rejected and realised alpine solar plants in Switzerland. The aim is to improve transparency and acceptance. The reason: many of the projects meet with resistance.

Self-consumption

BayWa r.e. realizes three PV rooftop installations for Merck and Tetra Pak

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Global renewable energy developer and solutions provider BayWa r.e. has successfully completed three PV self-consumption projects for Merck and Tetra Pak.

A visualisation of the planning for an Alpine solar plant.
Switzerland

BKW presents six new Alpinsolar projects

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The Bernese utility BKW is stepping up the expansion of solar energy: following the launch of the Belpmoossolar project, the Group is now presenting six Alpinsolar projects in its own canton. All of the planned plants will produce almost 100 gigawatt hours of electricity per year.

Switzerland

Project developers plan ten new solar plants in the Graubünden Alps

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The plans for the expansion of solar generators high up in the Alps are extensive. But which projects will actually be realised is far from certain.

Q Energy has already built up a lush project pipeline.
Q Energy

15 gigawatts of green energy projects in the pipeline

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The project pipeline is expected to further increase to 20 gigawatts by 2025. Most of these are solar plants. However, Q Energy also wants to expand its share of storage and enter the hydrogen market.

Solar park of Enovos Renewables in Weidingen in the southern Eifel, Germany.
Germany

Eon and Enovos launch offering for business customers

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Solar customers of Eon can hand over the operational management of their plants to Enovos Renewables O&M in future. The offer includes monitoring, regular maintenance and any repairs.

Contracts for solar plants in Poland worth EUR 73 million have been signed.
Financing:

Poland: Contracts for 135 PV farms signed

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R.Power Group companies have signed contracts with Nomad Electric and Onde for the implementation of 135 photovoltaic farms worth PLN 334 million (EUR 73 million).

Axpo is also strongly positioned in the French energy market thanks to its subsidiaries Volkswind and Urbasolar
Balancing power:

Axpo signs wind and solar balancing services contract with SNCF Energie in France

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The contract with a subsidiary of the state-owned passenger and freight transport operator SNCF Voyageurs has further expanded Axpo’s marketing of renewable energies in France.

The solar-plus-diesel plant will allow to keep electricity prices down and reduce municipal expenditures earlier allocated for procurement of diesel fuel.
Rural electrification:

Hevel to complete first hybrid off-grid PV in Arctic region

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Hevel Energo Servis, the Hevel Group’s energy service business unit, has completed the construction of an off-grid solar-plus-diesel project in Chukotka that will be the first standalone PV installation in the Russian Arctic.

All plants are located in the Plateau d’Albion, a former site for nuclear ground-to-ground ballistic missiles.
France:

Sonnedix starts operation of a cluster of solar plants

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French independent power producer (IPP) Sonnedix has successfully started operations of its 9.8MW Simiane cluster of three solar PV plants, in the southeast of France.

Blueberries under solar plants.
Solar on farmland:

Economic erosion protection

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Our guest author Volker Korrmann, General Manager of Ewind (Berlin/Germany), describes the concept of  “Erosion Protection Solar Systems”.