Nice that they’re reusing land that was previously a coal mine, not farm land.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

German investment firm Hansainvest Real Assets has inaugurated a 605 MW solar plant in Witznitz, near Leipzig, Germany.

Before it was commissioned, Europe’s largest solar installation was the 500 MW Núñez de Balboa project located between the municipalities of Usagre, Hinojosa del Valle, and Bienvenida, in southern Spain’s Extremadura region.

Move On Energy deployed around 1.1 million solar modules over 500 hectares of the former “Witznitz II” open-cast brown coal mine.

Hansainvest Real Assets also plans to test “parallel agricultural use on the area below the solar modules.” There is a test area of 5 hectares to 10 hectares for this purpose.

In 2023, the investment firm concluded a long-term PPA with Shell Energy Europe to purchase solar power from the facility.

*The article was updated on April 10 to reflect that Europe’s second largest PV plant is the Núñez de Balboa project, and not the Cestas solar plant, as we previously reported.

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