Country Germany Status Operational Type Flat-panel PV Site area 200 ha | Location Schipkau Commission date 2011, 2012 Nameplate capacity 168 MW | |
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Construction cost 140 million EUR (first 70 MW) | ||
Solarpark Meuro is a 166 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power station located in Meuro and Schipkau, Germany. The plant was built on a former lignite mine and is the country's largest solar park. It was named POWER-GEN International solar project of the year in 2012.
The PV system uses about 636,000 solar panels provided by Canadian Solar and 20k-string inverters from REFUsol. It is also the first solar park to use a 690VAC gridvoltage for some of REFUsol's 333k HV central inverters.
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