Bosch Solar Energy

New power stations to be built worldwide

The solar power plant on top of the Bosch parking structure covers the annual energy needs of around 250 four-person households.

Bosch Solar Energy AG stands for the Solar Energy division of the Bosch Group and, together with its subsidiaries, is a leading provider of silicon-based photovoltaic products with a consistent focus on product quality. From small-scale plants for single-family homes to finished large-scale photovoltaic projects – Bosch Solar Energy offers high-quality solar cells and modules for photovoltaic power generation. With its highly-efficient crystalline and thin-film products, Bosch Solar Energy focuses very deliberately on the sustainable and environmentally friendly form of silicon-based solar power generation.

At the end of 2009, Bosch Solar Energy commissioned four solar power plants in Germany. One of them is a 955 kWp rooftop photovoltaic plant on the Bosch parking structure at New Trade Fair Centre, Stuttgart, Germany. 4,247 monocrystalline solar modules extending over an area of about 7,000 mC generate around 870,000 kWh of “green” electricity per year. This covers the annual energy needs of around 250 four-person households.

The three other power plants, two of them in Thuringia and one in Saxony, have a combined capacity of 8.75 MWp and can generate an output of around 8 million kWh a year. This covers the annual energy need of about 2,200 four-person households.

In 2010, Bosch Solar Energy plans to expand its activities in the PV projects segment on an international level. “Bosch has the international networks required to push photovoltaics ahead around the world. In the long term, we want to make photovoltaics a competitive technology in the energy mix and contribute to protecting the climate”, said Peter Schneidewind, Executive Vice President of Sales at Bosch Solar Energy AG. As a full provider of photovoltaic technologies, Bosch Solar Energy contributes its expertise in the production of high-end solar cells and modules. Moreover, the Bosch subsidiary assumes responsibility for the technical side of operations, from planning to turnkey construction of large-scale systems.

Bosch Solar Energy AG
Wilhelm-Wolff-Strasse 23
99099 Erfurt
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)361 2195-0
Fax: +49 (0)361 2195-1133
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Founded 1997
Approximately 1,400 employees (Dec. 2009)

Business Areas

  • system integrators /  project developer /  turnkey solutions
  • crystalline module manufacturing
  • thin film manufacturing

Quality control of Bosch Solar Energy thin-film modules at the Erfurt production site.

In Erfurt, Germany, 21,898 thin-film solar modules generate about 1,788,000 kWh of “green” electricity per year.