Danish State Railways & European Power — New Photo voltaic Park Building

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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 Jap Denmark. This photo voltaic park will enhance the manufacturing of renewable vitality in Denmark.

The photo voltaic park is positioned at Rødby Harbour in Lolland Municipality, and the work to assemble the photo voltaic park will start after the summer time holidays. As soon as accomplished, the photo voltaic park is predicted to have an annual manufacturing of 262 GWh, equal to the electrical energy consumption of practically 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 p.c 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 wish to speed up the inexperienced transition in Denmark, as we intention to scale back the local weather influence of our operations by 98 p.c 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 some of the climate-friendly modes of journey.

Now we have a declared purpose to repeatedly enhance the local weather and environmental efficiency of DSB and contribute to lowering the general environmental and local weather influence of the transport sector. The brand new settlement with European Power helps this purpose and is a vital step in direction of masking DSB’s vitality consumption with renewable vitality.

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

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

As extra components of society change into electrified, we’ll want extra inexperienced vitality capability. Due to this fact, it’s extremely essential that giant entities like DSB have interaction within the inexperienced transition and assist convey renewable vitality initiatives like this to life.

Within the entirety of Jap Denmark, there’s a scarcity of renewable vitality, 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, will likely be one of many largest in Denmark and has been named Lidsø Photo voltaic Park. The realm is leased from three landowners for 30 years.

Courtesy of European Power.