76 MW Agri-PV farm commissioned in Germany

Germany’s largest combined solar and agricultural farm, 76 MW Tützpatz, located in Mecklenburg Lake District (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), has been inaugurated.

The Agri-PV farm combines power generation with arable farming and animal husbandry on a total area of 93 hectares. Vattenfall secures the profitability of the project through a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA). With Power and Air Condition Solution Management GmbH (PASM), a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG, Vattenfall has found a partner for this project, which will take over the production of the system completely for a decade. In mathematical terms, it covers the annual demand of around 4,600 mobile phone sites. 

The Agri-PV Solar Park Tützpatz consists of three sub-areas, on which both animal husbandry and arable farming will take place in the future. In the future, chickens will be kept in mobile barns on designated areas. A total of six mobile chicken coops, each with up to 2,500 animals, are being planned.  

On the sub-areas Tützpatz 2 and Tützpatz 3, arable farming with different crop rotations is to be carried out in the future. Here, so-called tracker systems were erected as a substructure for the solar modules. In addition, the distances between the rows of modules are larger. With tilted modules, the arable land can then be driven on with agricultural machinery and can thus be worked.