750,000 kilowatt hours of solar power for energy transition in classrooms in southern Slovakia
Only a few weeks after the major Conergy project at numerous Hawaiian schools, the Hamburg system supplier has now secured another order in the area of green education. Conergy will be equipping fourteen schools and municipal buildings with solar plants with a total capacity of some 700 kW, realising one of the largest Conergy solar project in Slovakia to date. The solar experts are in the process of installing all fourteen solar plants on the building roofs in parallel. According to the schedule, the power plants will bring clean power into the classrooms in southern Slovakia by the end of June.
The Slovak investor NoviSol and Conergy’s long-standing local partner Sunlux Slovakia have decided in favour of Conergy quality. Some 2,500 Conergy solar modules will produce over 750,000 kilowatt hours of clean solar energy a year, to be fed into the power grid by 40 Conergy IPG T inverters. Each installation will be monitored by a Conergy VisionBox.
Over the next 15 years, the solar power plants will prevent 13,000 tons of damaging CO2 emissions – as much as around 400 trees could offset in this time. This will benefit the environment on the one hand and the pupils on the other: Thanks to the power plants, the energy transition will be something the pupils can experience and understand first hand and not just as a remote theory from a textbook.
“At 700 kilowatts, the project as a whole is relatively large for the current Slovak market, although it is made up of 14 individual rooftop installations,” said Stefan Balbierz, responsible for Conergy’s activities in the German, Czech and Slovakian market. “As is the case throughout Europe, the trend in Slovakia is also to move onto the roof. The focus is on smaller rooftop plants with a capacity of up to 100 kilowatts. This is the only type of installation that the government is currently encouraging with a feed-in tariff.”
