Once opened in 2026, it will be the biggest solar farm of the Baltics. In the third week of November, Sunly and the Metsagrupp jointly started construction of this 244-megawatt-farm, consisting of almost 350,000 solar panels. It is located near Risti, 62 kilometres (38 miles) southwest of the capital of Tallinn, Estonia.
The plan is to combine the solar farm with other energy production options, explains Klaus Pilar, Country Manager of Sunly Estonia. “For us, this is the first major example of a hybrid park project where different types of electricity generation and storage are located behind the same connection point.”
Increasing power delivery in Estonia
Sunly (sunly.ee) is planning to add a wind farm and battery storage to the location, to increase its power delivery capacity even when the sun does not shine or the wind does not blow.
The Risti site is only one of more that Sunly is constructing in Estonia. Near Matīši (54 MW), Barkava (81 MW) and Dagda (90 MW) it is building smaller solar farms. | © 2024 Marcel Burger, nordicreporter.com. Featured photo: computer-render of the new Risti solar farm (Press image: Sunly)