Facts on the Ammerland solar park, Wiefelstede/Oldenburg, Germany:

•  World’s largest solar park with CIGS thin-film modules
• Area 57 hectares
• Output 20.8 megawatts
• Power requirement of 6,000 four-person homes
• 11,800-tonne CO2 savings per year
• 20 mill. produced kilowatt hours per year
• 196,000 solar modules
• 30,718 installed posts
• 30,718 installed angle brackets
• 98,000 installed module carrier systems
• 160,800 installed bolts (24 t)
• 59 kilometres of installed longitudinal carrier profiles

 

All in an assembly time of just 8.5 weeks