Eleven 9000 NT DEGERtraker systems have already been installed at the Energy Smart solar park in Võru (Southern Estonia), close to the Latvian border. Each system has a power rating of 9.000 watts peak, whereby the solar park has a total capacity of close to 100 kilowatts peak.
“We intend to show our country’s farmers how they can generate solar energy into the public grid instead of waiting for European agricultural subsidies, which have a dubious future anyway,” explains Viido Polikarpus, director of Energy Smart. “Furthermore, we believe our long sub-arctic summer days are perfect for the generation from 300 degree tracked solar energy throughout the day. This is only possible with DEGERenergie tracking technology.”
The success of DEGERenergie’s pilot project has convinced Polikarpus that Estonian farmers can even generate clean energy for Latvia during the summer months.
“Our neighbour to the south gets the largest share of their energy from their own hydroelectric power plants which are lowest during the summer and are forced to supply their base load from the Russian grid. Within the scope of the EU program for cross-border energy supply, we in Estonia will have the opportunity to help Latvia become less dependent on Russian energy supply.
MLD tracking for optimum yield
The Energy Smart solar park will go operational in just a few weeks. Because Energy Smart is 70 percent Estonian government funded, high-ranking representatives from politics and business are expected to grace the opening ceremony. Among others, the operator is hoping President Toomas Hendrik Ilves will attend as well as ambassadors from Latvia and Lithuania. In addition several of our EU parliamentarians, government parliamentarians and government ministers are also expected to attend.
Energy Smart has made it its objective to firmly establish solar energy in the Baltic states on a broad basis. In this quest, the company counts on DEGERenergie MLD technology. “Especially in Nordic countries with a low altitude of the sun and long days, MLD tracking is the best technology to achieve the maximum yield of energy generated from the sun,” says Polikarpus. Energy Smart has already ordered additional DEGERtraker systems.
DEGERenergie is the global market leader for solar tracking systems having installed more than 49,000 DEGERenergie systems in 49 countries. According to the company,its patented DEGERenergie Maximum Light Detection (MLD) technology makes it possible to improve the energy yield of solar power plants by an average of 45 percent compared to fixed systems.
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