Solar park Schmelchen

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Flexibility as basis for the right system strategy

When the solar power plant belonging to the company Alto Solar Schmelchen was connected to the grid just before New Year‘s Eve 2006, this was more than just the successful completion of a project. After all, commissioning of the plant was actually planned for 2007. To support the projects finalisation in 2006, a co-operation with Gehrlicher Umweltschonende Energiesysteme GmbH ensured that the project could be executed with First Solar modules.

In a very short time, the operating company, Alto Solar Schmelchen, adapted the financing concept to the earlier date. At the same time, Phoenix Solar already revised all construction and project plans, and integrated all subcontractors into the new schedule. The plant with a total of 25,920 modules and a total capacity of 1.685 MWp was built in just 10 weeks, and connected to E.ON‘s grid.

One anomaly arose when it came to making the electrical connection, as E.ON only allowed feed-in power of 1.6 MW on the AC side. In cooperation with the company SMA, the Phoenix Solar team arranged for the output of one inverter to be reduced from 1000 kW to 900 kW in order to comply with the specifications.

* Source: The evolution of carbon dioxide emissions within the German power mixture 1990-2008: 0.575 tons CO2 saved per MWh (Umweltbundesamt FG I 2.5., Status March 2010)
** Source: Average power consumption of a family: 4,000 kWh (Verivox, Status 2010)