Phoenix Solar building 2.3MW PV plant

SULZEMOOS/ULM, GERMANY: On behalf of SWU Energie, a wholly owned subsidiary of SWU Stadtwerke Ulm/Neu-Ulm, Phoenix Solar AG is currently building a roof-mounted photovoltaic system with a peak power output of 2.3 megawatt on the roofs of EvoBus GmbH in Neu-Ulm.

The power plant will supply around 650 households with environmentally friendly electricity. Moreover, the system will cut carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 2,000 tons a year, which is the amount that would have been produced by generating electricity from fossil fuels.

Phoenix Solar AG is a leading international photovoltaic systems integrator. Its Ulm branch is responsible for the planning, construction and operation of large photovoltaic power plants of dimensions which go into the multi-megawatt range. The team headed by Manfred Bächler, CTO, had already installed a facade-integrated photovoltaic system on SWU’s depot back in 1997.

The solar power plant on EvoBus GmbH's production facilities, which is Phoenix Solar’s biggest roof-mounted system to date, will consist of around 13,500 crystalline solar modules, which will be mounted on 14 shed roofs with a combined surface area of around 18,000sqm.

Phoenix Solar is planning to finish the power plant in December so that it may begin feeding environmentally friendly energy into SWU’s grid before the end of this year. Financing will be provided via an investment concept for power customers of SWU.