wiredInUSA February 2018

Sun on the roof

Germany’s power mix

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Global turnkey solar developer Enerray has designed and installed a 964kWp rooftop PV system for Amazon’s new logistics center in Passo Corese, central Italy. Electricity produced at the site will be used to power the facility’s operations. The system utilizes 3,200 monocrystalline solar modules. All the energy produced by the solar array will be consumed onsite, delivering a return on investment in only 5.5 years. Engineering 2K was selected as general contractor on the logistics center construction project. Engineering 2K then chose Enerray to develop the rooftop system, based on Enerray’s expertise in commercial and industrial solar projects. The new logistics center extends to 160,000m 2 , with 5,230m 2 of rooftop photovoltaic system.

NKT has commissioned and delivered the 155kV high voltage AC Nordergründe offshore wind transmission link to the German transmission system operator TenneT. NKT’s contract included the design, engineering, supply and installation of the 155kV underground and offshore cable system, the onshore and offshore shunt reactors, the onshore 155/220kV power transformer and the extension of an existing 220kV substation. The cable system comprises three 4km single-core AC underground cables and 28km of three-core AC submarine cable with integrated fiber optics. The cables were manufactured at the Karlskrona, Sweden, cable facility. The 110MW Nordergründe wind farm, located in the German North Sea, is part of Energiewende, the German government’s strategy to increase the share of renewable energy in the country’s energy mix. TenneT commissioned the grid connection for the wind farm in October, following the installation of the substation.

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