PV plant installation in Germay | Solaranlagen Installation in D

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hi guys I´d like to add some content to this community after learning that some peeps I know are also posting here -about one of my years filling works- the solar business.

Some might remember that I stated this some times before here on STEEMIT that I was working a long long time in the Energy sector in Germany (and later on in whole europe), started as the guy who leads the quality control unit in my hometown at a former RWE-Subsidiary which manufactured the fuel rods for the huge nuclear reactors.

But this wasn´t my dream job, it was far to risky and most of my days I had to fill out hours with tonns of forms before I could work maybe one or two hours but that´s another story, I changed that for founding an own Energycompany with some Partners from these early days.

Since than I was head of project development for the main company in D, the rest of the group companies and the managing director in all of our foreing entities.
This was nearly 20 years ago and in this time the smallest plant we ever designed, built and connected to the grid was a nearly 80 kWp rooftop installation oriented to the south on the roof of the school of my children.

The pictures in this post are from this work, are all mine and taken by myself for documentation purposes in the company, this was now 14 years ago, enjoy these pictures from the time when we errected this plant.


(this was before we started the works, and yeah we also got sometimes sun over there, it was in may)


(and this was in the middle of all the hustle in the summer holidays when the school was closed)

...because we was not allowed to install in the time when the children where around, so we had to do it in the summer holidays when the school was closed in the midst of July to the end of August, we´ve done that Job in a little more than 10 days with all the wiring, mounting of panel stands, clamps, moduls, inverters and the testing.
It was way more work for such a tiny little plant than for one of our normal ones which had have at least 1 MWp up to 50 MWp most of them where ground mounted only a few was on top of some industrial buildings.


(one of the modul rows from the backside)


(and here zoomed out with some of the mounting crew members at work)

hehe and in August over there in Germany it could be also very warm in the sun, especially when you are working in the sun ;)


(yeah that was a lot of material what needs to be moved from the ground to the third level on the roof)


(there sitting the first rows completely mounted on top of the roof)


(yeah the roof is covered with all that nice blue shining PV-modules)


(and this is the most important part of the installation, the place where the wiring comes down to all the stringinverters at a good ventilated area)

All these pannels feed in their generated energy in the grid from the town and had an at this times still existing good feed in tarif which bolsters the pockets of the school and pays off the plants cost in a time period of about 5 years.

I hope you enjoy this post.

with sunny greetings from Spain