BELECTRIC celebrates 1 GW of installed solar capacity in Germany and 5 GW worldwide

2024 . 11 . 27

• BELECTRIC is one of the first companies to reach the milestone of one gigawatt of installed solar capacity in Germany
• Worldwide, the photovoltaic company has installed more than five gigawatts of cumulative capacity

Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC, member of Elevion Group, is celebrating two milestones with the recent commissioning of a solar farm and a battery storage system. The solar energy specialist is one of the first companies to break the mark of one gigawatt (GW) of installed photovoltaic capacity in Germany. Since its foundation in 2001, BELECTRIC has already installed systems with a total output of more than five gigawatts worldwide.

With the recent commissioning of a solar farm in Germany and a battery storage system in the United Kingdom, BELECTRIC reaches two important milestones. With almost 520 systems constructed worldwide, the photovoltaic company breaks the mark of a total of five gigawatts of installed capacity. In its home market of Germany, BELECTRIC is one of the first companies to install solar plants with a total output of more than one gigawatt. This corresponds to a total area of around 1,400 football pitches with today's technology, or roughly the output of the largest conventional large-scale power plants. Since its foundation 23 years ago, BELECTRIC has been making a clear contribution to the energy transition – including one of the largest independent solar farms in Germany. The Tramm-Göthen solar plant measures 172 megawatts peak and has been converting sunlight into electricity since the end of 2021.

“We are proud to have reached these significant milestones. The outlook for the current and upcoming year also confirms BELECTRIC as a reliable and experienced partner: we are currently constructing solar farms with a total capacity of around one gigawatt and have a large project pipeline ahead of us. We look forward to making them a reality together with our employees, who now number almost 600”, explains Dr Thorsten Blanke, Managing Director of BELECTRIC.

About BELECTRIC
BELECTRIC is one of Europe's leading EPC service providers in the development, construction, and operation of solar power plants. The solar energy specialist looks back on more than 20 years of experience in power plant construction and has built over 5 gigawatts of capacity worldwide. BELECTRIC is a member of Elevion Group. Elevion Group is a leading European provider of end-to-end decarbonization and higher energy efficiency solutions. Thanks to its unique structure and its pioneering spirit, its capabilities can be easily scaled across the project scope, for various project sizes and a range of required expertise. Elevion Group operates on 12+ European markets (including The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, Romania and Hungary) through 60+ highly specialized independent companies, but with the financial strength of an international group.