First ABO Wind innovation park opened in Bavaria

ABO Wind has connected the first PV battery hybrid project in the Rhön-Grabfeld district to the grid with a small inauguration party. The system in the district of Leutershausen in the municipality of Hohenroth is a combination of a solar park and battery storage. As a result, the green electricity can also be fed into the grid when the sun is not shining over Lower Franconia.

Key Highlights:

* Solar park with more than 16,000 modules has a total output of 8.7 megawatts.

* Overall, the innovation park avoids the emission of almost 6,300 tons of carbon dioxide per year.

* The municipality itself benefits, among other things, from the municipal tax of 0.2 cents per kilowatt hour generated.

Original Press Release:

Wiesbaden, May 25 -- ABO Wind issued the following news release:

ABO Wind has connected the first PV battery hybrid project in the Rhön-Grabfeld district to the grid with a small inauguration party. The system in the district of Leutershausen in the municipality of Hohenroth is a combination of a solar park and battery storage. In spring 2021, ABO Wind was awarded a contract for the project in the Federal Network Agency’s innovation tender. The solar park with more than 16,000 modules has a total output of 8.7 megawatts and is expected to produce ten million kilowatt hours of clean electricity per year - this roughly corresponds to the consumption of almost 3,000 three-person households. The large battery storage mtu EnergyPack QG comes from Rolls-Royce Power Systems, has an output of 2.9 megawatts and a capacity of 5.8 megawatt hours.

Overall, the innovation park avoids the emission of almost 6,300 tons of carbon dioxide per year. "Combinations of wind or solar systems with storage are an important step towards making the availability of renewable energies more predictable," said Stefan Schuck, Head of the Solar Department in Southern Germany at the opening ceremony. As a result, the green electricity can also be fed into the grid when the sun is not shining over Lower Franconia.

The strong approval within the community deserves special mention: “We noticed from the start that our partners in Hohenroth-Leutershausen are fully behind the idea and want to actively promote the energy transition locally,” said project manager Konstantin Weber. The statute resolution for the development plan in the municipal council was unanimous. The municipality itself benefits, among other things, from the municipal tax of 0.2 cents per kilowatt hour generated.

Josef Demar, deputy district administrator, emphasized the very short period of three years between the application and the start-up: "This was only possible because everyone involved, including the district, pulled together." Anja Weisgerber, spokeswoman for environmental and climate policy for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, emphasized that locally generated energy must be further strengthened. She spoke out in favor of not additionally burdening agriculture with compensation areas. As part of a guided tour through the innovation park, the experts from ABO Wind gave the guests an insight into the technology.

Of the seven projects with storage that were awarded a contract in the innovation tender, Leutershausen is the fourth that is already feeding into the grid. The other three are in or close to construction. ABO Wind has increased its commitment in Bavaria in recent years and is active with a team from Wiesbaden and Pfaffenhofen. In addition to solar, the colleagues are now planning wind farms and storage projects again.

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Source: ABO Wind

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