Vattenfall starts solar build on German hydro site
Vattenfall has now started the construction of an open-space photovoltaic system at the Geesthacht pumped storage plant in Schleswig-Holstein. In the coming weeks, the company will install around 5,000 solar modules with a capacity of 2.4MW on the dam of the upper basin at Germany's northernmost pumped storage facility. The necessary preparatory work is already underway, according to Vattenfall. The photovoltaic system in Geesthacht is one of various projects in which Vattenfall is adding solar power to pump storage plants. At the 1050MW Markersbach pumped storage facility in the Ore Mount...
Source: renews.biz