Since 2018, we have had a solar farm on the roof of the building at our Amercentrale. There are 2,025 solar panels which together produce enough energy to power 150 households a year. That amounts to 525,000 kilowatt hours (kWh). The panels have been installed on the roof at an angle of 10ο, facing south. The whole solar installation weighs around 91,000 kilos which we know the roof can take without any problems. At 71,000 kilos, the paving slabs that keep the panels in place in strong winds account for most of the weight. The current generated by the solar panels is fed into the operating grid at the Amercentrale.

On the green areas where the old Amer 4 and 5 units once stood and on the green area next to Amercentrale, we have installed a total of 5,760 solar panels. Those panels stand on 2,160 concrete blocks, each weighing 670 kilos. The panels have been installed at an angle of 15ο, facing south. They produce 2,038,000 kWh per annum which is equivalent to the annual energy consumption of around 560 households. During the construction of the solar farm on land, we used 5 kilometres of aluminium and 15 kilometres of copper cable to connect all the panels to each other and to the 20 inverters. Those inverters convert the direct current (DC) into alternating current (AC).