RWE to construct floating solar project in the Netherlands

After completion, the innovative PV project will have an installed capacity of 6.1 MW peak. The company has also started constructing a 2.3 MW peak ground-mounted PV project on the site of its Amer power plant. Both PV projects, floating and ground mounted, are part of Solar Park Amer.

Roger Miesen, Chief Executive Officer of RWE Generation and Country Chair for the Netherlands: “Our first floating PV project demonstrates our ambition to drive forward the energy transition with innovative technologies and clean energy supply.”

The Netherlands is one of RWE’s strategic core markets and the company continues to contribute to the growth of renewable energy, as well as to CO2-free flexible capacity. Currently, RWE is expanding its Dutch portfolio with four new onshore wind farms and a solar park under construction. “As a company we also strongly contribute to hydrogen developments via the projects NortH2, Eemshydrogen and FUREC. Both new PV projects show that we can turn conventional asset sites into landmark projects that promote innovative solutions for a sustainable electricity system,” underlines Miesen.

Solar Park Amer

In 2018, RWE realised the first phase of Solar Park Amer, installing over 2000 PV panels with 0.5 MW peak on the roof of its power plant. The solar park is now being expanded. Construction of the floating PV project is expected to start at the beginning of August 2021, and to be commissioned by the end of 2021. Construction of the ground-mounted project has already commenced and is expected to be finished in August 2021. The green electricity generated by Solar Park Amer (rooftop, ground-mounted and floating PV) is equal to the annual electricity consumption of approximately 2300 Dutch households.

The company currently operates seven onshore wind farms in the Netherlands, with a total installed capacity of 268 MW (RWE’s pro rata share). In addition, it is currently building four new onshore wind farms with a total capacity of more than 115 MW, as well as a 14 MW solar park in Kerkrade. All of these projects will be commissioned in the course of 2021.

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