US EditionFrankfurt Airport Now Hosting 17.4 MW Vertical PV Plant
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Frankfurt airport now hosting 17.4 MW vertical PV plant
Next2Sun constructed the photovoltaic system with 37,000 vertically mounted solar modules. It stretches over a length of 2.8 km along the airport's Runway West.From pv magazine Germany Germany's Next2Sun has commissioned a vertical PV plant at Frankfurt Airport’s West Runway. The vertically mounted solar array stretches 2.8 km and comprises approximately 37,000 modules. With an installed capacity of 17.4 megawatts, the system is expected to gene…
80,000 employees – a good 60 million passengers per year. Germany's largest airport in Frankfurt has dimensions such as its own small city, which also applies to its energy needs. Every year, the airport consumes about 540 million kilowatt hours of electricity, as much as 200,000 households. This demand is to be completely covered by renewable energies in the future. As a next major step, the operator Fraport has today put into operation a huge …
Frankfurt Airport wants to improve its climate balance - with a photovoltaic system at the runway West. With the 2,800 meter long system, the terminals are primarily to be air-conditioned and the electric vehicles are to be charged on the apron.
Next2Sun has built the photovoltaic system with 37,000 vertical-mounted solar modules. It extends over a length of 2.8 kilometres at the West runway.The photovoltaic system built by Next2Sun on the West runway of Frankfurt Airport was symbolically put into operation on Wednesday. It extends over 2.8 kilometres, the company announced. A total of 37,000 solar modules have been vertical-mounted. The total capacity of the photovoltaic system is thus…
The airport operator Fraport has officially put a new photovoltaic system into operation at Frankfurt Airport. In the future, the plant with around 37,000 vertically arranged solar modules will generate up to 17.4 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually – enough to cover large parts of the energy needs of the Group's local companies. The generated green electricity flows primarily into the air conditioning of the terminals [...] The contr…
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