Cost-effective and eco-friendly: a former ammunition bunker is turned into a large-scale solar power.
In Radelstetten, in the Swabian Alb hill range of southern Germany, was constructed a 1.1 MW output PV plant on the site of a former German Army ammunition dump. Up until the year 2000, the site was a restricted military zone.
Now the sun is shining down on the bunker installation, turning it into a model of both ecological progress and profitability.
A total of 6,012 crystalline high-performance modules have been installed across the 21 bunkers of the decommissioned site, mounted on automatic trackers. The trackers with an output of 54 kW or 37 kW are connected to a total of ten 100 kW AC rated output LTi PVmaster inverters. The tracking system, following the sun through a broad arc of 340° from sunrise to sunset, enables the plant to attain up to 25 % higher efficiency.
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