Waldpolenz Solar Park

Waldpolenz Solar Park
Waldpolenz Solar Park
	First Solar 40-MW CdTe PV Array installed by JUWI Group in Waldpolenz, Germany
Official name	Solarpark Waldpolenz;
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51°19′42″N 12°39′22″E / 51.32833°N 12.65611°E
Construction cost	€130 million
Operator	Juwi
Solar farm
Type	Flat-panel PV
Site area	220 ha (544 acres) footprint
Power generation
Units operational	550,000
Make and model	First Solar
Nameplate capacity	52 MW
Annual net output	52 GWh
External links
Website	Juwi
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The Waldpolenz Solar Park is a 52-megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power station built by German developer and operator Juwi at a former military air base near Leipzig, Eastern Germany. When completed by the end of 2008, it was the world's largest thin-film solar park using CdTe-modules.^[1]

Initially, the solar power plant's nameplate capacity was 40 MW, consisting of 500,000 state-of-the-art solar panels provided by U.S. manufacturer First Solar, and generated 40,000 MWh of electricity per year.^[2] The solar park was then extended with another 153,650 panels, also provided by First Solar, to a final capacity of 52 MW_P in 2011^[3]

The installation is located in the Muldentalkreis district in the state of Saxony in eastern Germany, built on half of the location's 220 hectares (543.6 acres)^[4] in the townships of Brandis and Bennewitz.^[5] The investment costs for the Waldpolenz solar park have amounted to some 130 million euro.^[2]