For the MKG GÖBEL sales team, summer season started as early as the beginning of March this year on the Adriatic coast. Not for a vacation, but for three intensive trade fair days: our first participation in KEY – The Energy Transition Expo at the Expo Centre Rimini.
When building solar parks, every cent counts. To ensure that strong cost pressure does not compromise quality, new solutions are needed. They optimise installation while also protecting solar modules and soil.
On the ground of the Agricultural Technology Centre (LTZ) Augustenberg in Karlsruhe, we erected the static part of an agri-photovoltaic research facility well before the first blossom. The construction extends over an existing orchard.
The Witznitz solar park, located south of Leipzig on Lake Kahnsdorf, was officially opened at the beginning of July 2024. With a total output of 650 MWp in the final expansion stage, the plant is by far the largest solar park in Germany. MKG Göbel made a major contribution to this project.
Agri PV, agriculture combined with photovoltaics, is a highly topical issue – especially in regions with intensive land use, such as Baden-Württemberg. On occasion of the inauguration of a pilot project near Heilbronn, regional TV station SWR reported on the issue and its special challenges.
The MKG GÖBEL team is extremely successful, but in a field that is almost unnoticed by the public. Participating in the Energy Tower advertisement at second division soccer club SV Sandhausen now provides additional visibility.
For NaturEnergy KGaA, MKG GÖBEL has built a solar park with an output of 18 megawatts in eastern Saxonia. An unusual feature: the plant generates electricity mainly in the morning hours to compensate for grid peaks at lunchtime.
In August 2022, MKG GÖBEL set up an experimental plant at the State Teaching and Research Institute for Viticulture and Fruit Growing (LVWO), in cooperation with our partner BayWa r.e. The project will help to gather practical experience and to offer better solutions for combining photovoltaics and agriculture.
Solar parks as element of the energy transformation and environmental protection both have the goal of preserving our natural environment. Nevertheless, the respective requirements must be coordinated. Germany’s ARD Tagesthemen dealt with this issue using the example of the largest solar park in Bavaria, which was built by project developer Anumar and MKG GÖBEL in the bavarian region of Donaumoos.
MKG GÖBEL’s GMS® DOUBLE Agri PV mounting system is receiving unbroken attention: After the pilot project in Büren was awarded the “German Solar Prize” a year ago, the mounting system itself is now receiving the “Hot-dip Galvanizing Innovation and Sustainability Award 2022”.
RTL Group’s Broadcasting Center Europe (BCE), located north-east of the city of Luxembourg, covers large areas of meadowland near the villages of Beidweiler and Junglinster. The land around the transmission masts cannot be used for industrial purposes – but why not for generating electricity?
The term “Agri-PV” stands for the combination of photovoltaics with agricultural land use – a field with great potential. The GMS® DOUBLE system that MKG Göbel built for a berry farm was recently awarded with the 2021 Deutscher Solarpreis (German Solar Prize).
Schornhof is the largest solar park in southern Germany – with an output of approx. 120 MWp, the plant supplies “green electricity” for approx. 30,000 households.
Heilbronn-based ZEAG has been operating Baden-Württemberg’s largest and most powerful wind farm in the Hardthausen forest since 2015. Now, the plant will be supplemented by a solar park. With MKG Göbel, ZEAG and Bürgerenergiegenossenschaft Widdern have found a competent partner right in their region.
The Lauperath field installation consists of two sections and is built in slope parallel construction.
On a former landfill site east of Breda (NL), a large solar park is being built which will supply electricity for approx. 13,000 households after completion in spring 2021.
In July 2019, the largest hybrid microgrid in Latin America was officially inaugurated on Corn Island, 70 km off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua.
After installing solar park project “Lelystad I” with approx. 28 MWp in 2019 we are near to completion of “Lelystad II” with a power of approx. 12.7 MWp for our customer Goldbeck Solar GmbH.
Innovative and with vision, entrepreneurs from Büren have invested in two greenhouses with dual use. The roofs of the constructions are covered with translucent solar modules, which protect the plants from the hail and from drying out – and at the same time produce green electricity.
In March 2019, we implemented a whole series of photovoltaic roof systems in Plauen, in the beautiful Free State of Saxony.