Soon the city of Moscow will have yet another attraction: An 8 kWp solar power plant is currently being installed on the roof of the Russian Space Museum.
This museum in particular is historically relevant given how photovoltaics were originally used in space as a way to secure power for the astronauts.
The project is a German-Russian joint venture with companies from both countries.
The solar power plant is one of the flagship projects of the “dena Solar Roof Program for Foreign Market Development”, which was created by the German Energy Agency and is co-financed by the German Ministry for Economics and Technology (BMWi). The goal of the program is to raise international awareness of photovoltaics (PV) and also demonstrate the high quality of German PV products to new foreign markets.
For its part, the Russian government has announced the goal of increasing the share of renewable energy sources the country uses from 1 percent to 4.5 percent by the year 2020.
Project partners include PRETHERM SOLUTIONS GmbH as the initiator, the Memorial Space Museum in Moscow, the German Energy Agency and a number of Berlin-based companies. The project is also supported by the German capital’s “be Berlin” campaign in anticipation of the 20th anniversary of its twin-city relationship with Moscow next year. The planning and installation of the solar power system is being undertaken by the Berlin-based companies SOLON SE, Inventux Technologies AG, BAE Batterien GmbH, and in cooperation with the Russian company OAO “NPP KVANT”.
The project involves two separate solar power systems, each representing a different power generation technology and an alternative means of power consumption. The power generated by the crystalline-based system of SOLON SE will be fed directly into the public power grid while the power from the silicon-based thin-film modules of Inventux will initially be stored in the BAE batteries.
source: Renewable Energy Sources
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