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 Jap Denmark. This photo voltaic park will improve 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 almost 65,000 households.

In line 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 gentle rail community in Copenhagen.

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

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

We’ve a declared purpose to constantly enhance the local weather and environmental efficiency of DSB and contribute to decreasing the general environmental and local weather impression of the transport sector. The brand new settlement with European Power helps this purpose and is a crucial step in direction of protecting 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 elements of society change into electrified, we’ll want extra inexperienced vitality capability. Subsequently, it’s extremely necessary that giant entities like DSB have interaction within the inexperienced transition and assist carry 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, can 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.