Under a new 10-year PPA, both the Eberhard Karls University and the University Hospital of Tübingen will purchase green electricity from Stadtwerke Tübingen (German municipal utility). The electricity will stem directly from the municipal utility’s newest solar park in Wackersdorf, Germany, which produces around 3 700 MWh of green electricity per year.
This is the first time that Stadtwerke Tübingen is supplying the green electricity it produces directly from its own solar park in large quantities to two major customers in the university town.
Stadtwerke Tübingen now generates around 80% of Tübingen’s total electricity consumption in its own wind, solar, and hydropower plants. The PPA means that the solar park will not require any remuneration from the Renewable Energy Sources Act (a series of German laws that originally provided a feed-in tariff scheme) for at least 10 years.
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