Evergreen builds German highway tunnel solar plant

US based solar panel manufacturer Evergreen Solar is close to completing the first stage of a project to place more than 16,000 solar panels on the roof of a tunnel covering part of Germany’s A3 highway.

The plant uses Evergreen’s String Ribbon solar product.

The installation, near Aschaffenburg, occupies 2.7 km of the tunnel roof. Evergreen is working with German solar installer Ralos and power provider Goldbach-Hoesbach, which will owns the land and will oversee connectivity to the power grid.

When it is completed, the 2.8 megawatt (MW) solar plant will be one of Germany’s largest and the first to be located on a public highway. Investment in the project will be around €11m.

“Theoretically, there’s a huge amount of free space on highway bridges and tunnels, says Peter Rusch,…

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