solar

The building at the experimental site for irrigation and solar technology has a complete measuring equipment for recording weather data, and since October 2006  a 14 kWp photovoltaic system is feeding electicity into the public grid. Installation was part of University Kassel "Solarcampus-Project" .

A solar tunnel dryer for fruits and vegetables, a solar pilot house equipped with a special dryer for medicinal herbs, a solar Scheffler refelector for destillation of essential oils, and two solar storage houses for sweet potatoes and corncops, are placed around.