Canadian Solar has announced that its submission of the 148MW solar park PV project in southern Brandenburg, Germany was named the 2012 winner of the Solar Project of the Year Award by POWER-GEN International.
The solar complex in southern Brandenburg, one of the world’s largest PV projects covering 352 hectares (870 acres), was constructed on a former lignite mining strip in the east German community of Meuro, near Senftenberg. Canadian Solar provided 636,000 CS6P-P modules, powering nearly 90%, 148MW, of the project’s 166MW total output.
By utilising a former surface mine for the installation, the PV solar project converted a brownfield into an energy producing solar farm, creating hundreds of local construction and operations jobs and generating enough clean, renewable solar energy to power 67,500 households in the region.
“It is an honour to have the solar complex in Brandenburg recognised as the best solar project in the world by the POWER-GEN International team. This project required a tremendous collaboration effort that would not have been possible without our two partners, project developers and contractors saferay and GP JOULE,” said Dr. Shawn Qu, chairman and CEO of Canadian Solar. “The success of this project proves that it is faster to develop, build and achieve dividends on large scale solar PV systems than any other type of power plant, even in regions with fewer sun hours.”
