Pilkington Solar - German Contract

Pilkington Solar International, is to build solar modules for what is believed to be the world's largest solar roof installation. The £6m contract is for a 9,500sq.m. photovoltaic installation on the roof of a new training academy in Herne for the Interior Ministry of Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany. The 1.0 megawatt photovoltaic roof system will supply up to 900,000 kilowatt hours of solar prouduced electricity a year, more than twice the power consumption required for the building, with the excess going to the national grid. Finance for the project is being provided by the provincial government and the Herne City power station.