CEE Group expands solar energy portfolio with a 154-megawatt peak lighthouse project in Brandenburg, Germany

The Ham­burg-based CEE Group, asset man­ag­er for renew­able ener­gies, is fur­ther expand­ing its port­fo­lio in the field of solar ener­gy with a major project in Bran­den­burg. The new solar park to be built in Döllen in Bran­den­burg will have a peak out­put of 154.4 megawatts peak (MWp) when com­plet­ed. The sell­side was sup­port­ed in the project devel­op­ment by antlike Solar from Meck­len­burg-Vor­pom­mern, which will remain involved dur­ing the now upcom­ing con­struc­tion phase. With this new acqui­si­tion, the port­fo­lio of the CEE Group grows to a total of 38 pho­to­volta­ic plants and 44 onshore wind tur­bines. The total installed capac­i­ty of the CEE Group’s renew­able ener­gy port­fo­lio will then be 1,340 MW (622 MW in wind and 718 MWp in solar).

Once com­plet­ed, the new Döllen solar park in the Prig­nitz dis­trict of Bran­den­burg will offer a peak capac­i­ty of 154.4 MWp and thus sup­ply in future around 150,000 megawatt hours of “green elec­tric­i­ty” per year. The Döllen project is the CEE Group’s largest sin­gle invest­ment in a ground-mount­ed solar park to date. The con­struc­tion of the new solar park is accom­pa­nied by GOLD­BECK Solar GmbH, based in Hirschberg a. d. Bergstraße. The com­pa­ny is man­ag­ing the project as a ser­vice provider for engi­neer­ing, pro­cure­ment and con­struc­tion (EPC). After the con­struc­tion site is set up in May 2022, the ground­break­ing cer­e­mo­ny on the project site is expect­ed to take place in June of this year. Accord­ing to the project sched­ule, deliv­ery of the solar mod­ules by the man­u­fac­tur­er Astroner­gy, a sub­sidiary of the Chi­nese CHINT Group, is planned from August 2022. Com­mis­sion­ing of the Döllen solar park is then sched­uled for March/April 2023.

The new solar park Döllen will be part of the port­fo­lio of the spe­cial AIF (SICAV-RAIF) Renew­able Fund 7 (CEE RF7) launched by CEE Group. The acqui­si­tion of the project com­pa­ny already took place in Decem­ber 2020.

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 with regard to the mar­ket­ing of elec­tric­i­ty via a pow­er pur­chase agree­ment (PPA).

New solar park in Döllen illustrates the potential of renewable energies

“The new solar park at the Döllen site impress­es with a nom­i­nal out­put of 154.4 MWp and at the same time illus­trates in this dimen­sion the poten­tial of renew­able ener­gies as a cen­tral com­po­nent of the ener­gy turn­around. The pro­duc­tion and pro­vi­sion of clean ener­gy is essen­tial for cli­mate pro­tec­tion and, under the influ­ence of cur­rent geopo­lit­i­cal devel­op­ments, has also become a free­dom issue,” explains Detlef Schreiber, CEO of the CEE Group. “With antlike Solar, Gold­beck Solar and Astroner­gy from the Chint Group, we are work­ing with lead­ing com­pa­nies for project devel­op­ment and the con­struc­tion of solar projects as well as the pro­duc­tion of qual­i­ta­tive­ly out­stand­ing solar mod­ules on this invest­ment. We would like to thank all par­ties involved in this out­stand­ing project for the high­ly pro­fes­sion­al and extreme­ly trust­ful coop­er­a­tion so far and look for­ward to the suc­cess­ful fur­ther imple­men­ta­tion of the project in Döllen until com­mis­sion­ing and of course to fur­ther joint projects to shape and secure the future of sus­tain­able ener­gy pro­duc­tion.”

Mar­tin Kanitz, man­ag­ing part­ner of antlike Solar: “The project plan­ning of large PV plants is always a chal­lenge where we have to rec­on­cile prof­itabil­i­ty and envi­ron­ment in terms of the ener­gy tran­si­tion. We are pleased that we were able to con­vince the CEE Group with the project in Döllen and win them as an investor for the new solar park.”

Joachim Gold­beck, CEO of GOLD­BECK SOLAR: “With the goal of cli­mate sta­bi­liza­tion, ener­gy price reduc­tion and ener­gy inde­pen­dence, the expan­sion of renew­able ener­gies is of ele­men­tary impor­tance for Ger­many. We will bring our many years of expe­ri­ence in the imple­men­ta­tion of large-scale projects to bear on the solar park in Döllen and look for­ward to trust­ing and goal-ori­ent­ed coop­er­a­tion with all par­ties involved in the fur­ther imple­men­ta­tion of the project.”

Oliv­er Schweininger, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor (CEO) CHINT Solar Europe: “We are pleased to be involved in the real­iza­tion of such an excit­ing large-scale project by sup­ply­ing our solar mod­ules. Already today, the prime costs of solar projects of this size are absolute­ly com­pet­i­tive. As a result, projects of this kind have enor­mous poten­tial in the imple­men­ta­tion of the ener­gy tran­si­tion in Ger­many.”