60 tons of CO2 less annually

The systems are located on the buildings of the Humanities and Cultural Studies, the Institute of Music and the Engineering I building on the Holländischer Platz campus and have a combined installed capacity of around 131 kWp. The university expects a yield of more than 105,000 kilowatt hours of electricity and a savings of about 60 tons of_CO2 annually.

The new modules are part of an expansion plan with which the university aims to cover a significant portion of its electricity consumption with solar energy. The Kassel-based cdw Foundation is funding the project with around one million euros. Savings on electricity costs will be invested by the university in further photovoltaic systems and other sustainability projects.

"Despite all the acute challenges, we must not forget that we have the permanent task of making our way of doing business more sustainable," warned Kassel University Chancellor Dr. Oliver Fromm. "As a university, we have set our sights high here, and these new photovoltaic systems are another building block. Our thanks go to the cdw Foundation for making this possible."

"It's important to us as a foundation to move from knowledge to action. Limiting climate change is the most urgent task of our time, and decentralized energy supply based on renewable energies is one of the most important building blocks," explained Peter Drews, Chairman of the cdw Foundation. "The energy turnaround must be implemented now. The region of Northern Hesse has the goal of supplying the areas of electricity, heat and mobility with 100% renewable energies by 2040. The University of Kassel is one of the most important players in this as a research institution and as an acting institution."

Together with two systems already in operation on the roofs of the engineering school and the student house, the university in northern Hesse now operates systems with a total installed capacity of around 345 kWp, producing around 290,000 kilowatt hours of electricity and saving 167 tons of_CO2 per year. Further systems are planned. When completed, all systems together are expected to produce about 600,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity annually (based on a demand of about 23,000 megawatt-hours) and save more than 350 tons of_CO2.

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