Danish State Railways & European Energy — New Solar Park Construction

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Copenhagen, Denmark — The Danish State Railways (DSB) has signed an settlement with the European Power that ensures the development of a brand new photo voltaic park in Japanese Denmark. This photo voltaic park will improve the manufacturing of renewable power in Denmark.

The photo voltaic park is positioned at Rødby Harbour in Lolland Municipality, and the work to assemble the photo voltaic park will begin after the summer time holidays. As soon as accomplished, the photo voltaic park is anticipated to have an annual manufacturing of 262 GWh, equal to the electrical energy consumption of almost 65,000 households.

In accordance with the settlement, DSB will buy 80 GWh when the photo voltaic park is accomplished in 2025. This quantity corresponds to roughly 50 % of DSB’s present electrical energy consumption for mild rail community in Copenhagen.

Aske Wieth-Knudsen, Head of Sustainability at DSB, states:

We’re more than happy with the brand new settlement between DSB and European Power. We actively need to speed up the inexperienced transition in Denmark, as we intention to scale back the local weather affect of our operations by 98 % by 2030 in comparison with 2019. With this settlement, we contribute to a sooner transition to inexperienced electrical energy in Denmark, thereby strengthening the place of trains as one of the vital climate-friendly modes of journey.

We’ve a declared aim to constantly enhance the local weather and environmental efficiency of DSB and contribute to decreasing the general environmental and local weather affect of the transport sector. The brand new settlement with European Power helps this aim and is a vital step in direction of masking DSB’s power consumption with renewable power.

The photo voltaic park will change into one of many largest in Denmark.

Jens-Peter Zink, Deputy CEO at European Power, feedback:

As extra elements of society change into electrified, we are going to want extra inexperienced power capability. Due to this fact, it’s extremely necessary that enormous entities like DSB have interaction within the inexperienced transition and assist deliver renewable power initiatives like this to life.

Within the entirety of Japanese Denmark, there’s a scarcity of renewable power, fortunately we see a number of municipalities, herein Lolland municipality, main with the growth of renewable capability, particularly with our future Energy-to-X plans within the space.

The brand new photo voltaic park, with a complete space of 253 hectares, shall be one of many largest in Denmark and has been named Lidsø Photo voltaic Park. The world is leased from three landowners for 30 years.

Courtesy of European Power.