CEE Group and GOLDBECK SOLAR commission 154-megawatt peak solar park in Döllen, Brandenburg

The Ham­burg-based CEE Group, asset man­ag­er for renew­able ener­gies, has joined forces with GOLD­BECK SOLAR, the builder of large-scale PV plants, and com­mis­sioned the Döllen solar park, cur­rent­ly one of the largest ground-mount­ed plants in Ger­many. The Döllen solar park has an installed capac­i­ty of 154.77 megawatts peak.

Approx­i­mate­ly one year after the ground­break­ing cer­e­mo­ny, the CEE Group and GOLD­BECK SOLAR invit­ed guests to the inau­gu­ra­tion of the large-scale Döllen solar park project (in the munic­i­pal­i­ty of Gum­tow) in the Prig­nitz dis­trict of Bran­den­burg on 30 June 2023. In addi­tion to offi­cial rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the region, many local res­i­dents and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the part­ners involved in the con­struc­tion of the plant also fol­lowed the invi­ta­tion. Dur­ing the inau­gu­ra­tion cer­e­mo­ny, the park was put into oper­a­tion by sym­bol­i­cal­ly con­nect­ing the “green plug” to the elec­tric­i­ty grid. Fol­low­ing the cer­e­mo­ny, guests had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to expe­ri­ence the dimen­sions and tech­nol­o­gy of the solar park for them­selves dur­ing a guid­ed tour. The archi­tec­tur­al firm Dressler also pre­sent­ed the archae­o­log­i­cal find­ings that were unearthed on the site dur­ing the project.

With an impres­sive installed capac­i­ty of 154.77 MWp, the Döllen solar park is set to gen­er­ate approx­i­mate­ly 160,000 megawatt hours of clean, renew­able “green elec­tric­i­ty” annu­al­ly. This sig­nif­i­cant out­put equates to pow­er­ing around 36,000 four-per­son house­holds with sus­tain­able elec­tric­i­ty. Sutu­at­ed on a for­mer agri­cul­tur­al area in Döllen with­in in the munic­i­pal­i­ty of Gum­tow in the Prig­nitz dis­trict, the tree-stand­ing solar park war metic­u­lous­ly planned, con­struct­ed and erect­ed by GOLD­BECK SOLAR GmbH, head­quar­tered in Hirschberg an der Bergstraße. The project was suc­cess­ful­ly exe­cut­ed in col­lab­o­ra­tion with antlike solar from Elmenhorst/Lichtenhagen. The project was financed by DAL Deutsche Anla­gen-Leas­ing GmbH & Co. KG. Solar mod­ules from Astroner­gy are installed in the plant. The elec­tric­i­ty from the solar park is fed into the grid of E.DIS Netz AG, a region­al elec­tric­i­ty dis­tri­b­u­tion sys­tem oper­a­tor for Bran­den­burg and Meck­len­burg-Vor­pom­mern. In coop­er­a­tion with E.DIS, the trans­former sta­tion in Schön­hagen was also built for the solar park.

Solar Park in Döllen com­plet­ed on sched­ule.

“We are pleased that the solar park at the Döllen site has been com­mis­sioned on sched­ule. With a nom­i­nal out­put of 154.77 MWp, the project in this dimen­sion is a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone of the ener­gy tran­si­tion in Ger­many. We would like to thank all those involved for the excep­tion­al pro­fes­sion­al­ism and con­sis­tent com­mit­ment, par­tic­u­lar­ly amidst the chal­lenges encoun­tered dur­ing this mega project,” stat­ed Detlef Schreiber, CEO of the CEE Group. “The seam­less coor­di­na­tion of all trades among each oth­er was char­ac­ter­ized by the high pro­fes­sion­al­ism of all com­pa­nies involved in this impor­tant project. We par­tic­u­lar­ly appre­ci­ate that”, added Frank Grafe, CIO of the CEE Group.

Joachim Gold­beck, CEO of the GOLD­BECK SOLAR Group, explained: “We take immense pride in the time­ly com­ple­tion of the Döllen solar park. Through­out the con­struc­tion process, we encoun­tered var­i­ous unique chal­lenges, includ­ing com­plex ground con­di­tions, adverse weath­er, and dis­rup­tions in the sup­ply chain due to geopo­lit­i­cal events. Over­com­ing these hur­dles mag­ni­fies the sig­nif­i­cance of achiev­ing our sched­uled mile­stone. This project stands as a shin­ing exam­ple of our ded­i­ca­tion to forg­ing a future pow­ered by clean and renew­able ener­gy sources. We extend our heart­felt grat­i­tude to the CEE Group and all the involved com­pa­nies for their out­stand­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion, which was instru­men­tal in bring­ing this vision to life.”

The law firm Tay­lor Wess­ing and the con­sult­ing firm 8.2 Obst & Ziehmann GmbH act­ed as legal and tech­ni­cal advi­sors in this trans­ac­tion. The com­pa­ny Pexa­park is pro­vid­ing sup­port regard­ing the mar­ket­ing of elec­tric­i­ty via a Pow­er Pur­chase Agree­ment (PPA). The PPA part­ner for the next ten years is ENGIE.