Berlin, 4 November 2011. The international law firm Linklaters advised Q-Cells, one of the leading companies in the photovoltaics industry worldwide, on the development and sale of Europe’s largest solar park.
The solar park being built in Brandenburg-Briest will have a capacity of 91 MW. A total of around 22,500 households will be supplied with renewable energy from the solar park, avoiding CO2 emissions of approximately 50,000 tonnes per year. The mega-project is being implemented at the former Brandenburg-Briest military airbase with an area of approximately 200 hectares, and illustrates the environmentally friendly transformation of disused sites with a sustainable usage concept. In a record time of approximately eight weeks, the solar park, which is divided into three parts, is planned to be completed by the end of 2011 and connected to the public grid via a transformer station built by Q-Cells especially for this purpose. Around 383,000 Q-Cells crystalline solar modules will be installed.
The park of around 31 MW which has been under construction since mid-October was acquired by the Berlin-based MCG Group, while the other two parks were acquired by Hamburg-based Luxcara GmbH.
The Linklaters team was led by Thomas Schulz (corporate/energy, Berlin). The team also included Dr Sebastian Rohrer, Dr Tim Heitling, Martin Dressel, Christian Glenz (all corporate/energy, Berlin), Dr Markus Appel, Dr Carolin Reese, Malte Kramme (all public law, Berlin), Nikolas Eschen, Carsten Andreas Bremer, Dr Marc Oliver Banzhaf (all real estate, Frankfurt).
