SunStrom GmbH

SunStrom GmbH, located in Dresden, Germany, specializes in photovoltaic systems (PV). Photovoltaic systems generate electricity from harvested sunlight and make a significant contribution in reducing CO2 emissions. We are your competent partner for designing and installing photovoltaic systems of all types and sizes, helping you to make a difference in the environment.

Implementing renewable energy resources is no longer an alternative, but rather a necessity for a responsible approach to our environment. With our services, concentrating on the design and installation of photovoltaic power plants and systems in all types and sizes, our goal is to serve you and the environment - today and in the future.

Dedication of New Solar World Production Facility in Germany

On May 31st, the Federal Environment Minister, Dr. Norbert Röttgen (CDU) was present for the dedication of SolarWorld AG’s newly completed solar wafer production facility in Freiberg, Germany.

The €350 million top-modern production facility is not just another milestone in the success story of Saxony’s solar branch. Solar World has provided 150 new jobs in the area and hope to double this number by 2011.

The rooftop over the production hall is used to produce environmentally friendly electricity harvested from the sun. SunStrom installed a 750 kWp power plant consisting of 3,500 multi-crystalline solar modules, which will produce approximately 650,000 kWh of clean electricity per year, saving the environment ca. 420 tons of CO2 emissions.

[01-06-2010]

: Federal Environment Minister Dr. Norbert Röttgen at the dedication.

: Solar arrays on the production facility rooftop.

SunStrom Takes Part in Film Premiere „The 4th Revolution – EnergyAutonomy“

“Renewable energy is no longer an alternative, but a necessity:” this film shows how the revolution can happen.
The 4th Revolution – EnergyAutonomy, directed by Carl- A. Fechner, will be premiering in Dresden, the 18th of March 2010. The documentary film has been dubbed by Zitty-Berlin as the “positive answer to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.”
SunStrom’s General Manager, Stephan Riedel, will be heading up a discussion on renewable energy, along with energy expert Klaus Gaber from the Bürgerkraftwerk Dresden and Lokale Agenda Dresden. Regional television personality, Stephan Bischof from MDR, will be hosting the discussion following the film premiere.
The documentary, directed by Fechner, shows the importance and possibility of converting to 100% renewable energy within the next 30 years. The film follows 10 prominent leaders from around the world, documenting what a revolutionary change to renewable energy could mean for sustainable economic development, technological advances, social and ecological equality, development of non-industrialized nations, the fight against poverty and new concepts in transportation and mobility. Environmental activists such as Bianca Jagger, politician Hermann Scheer and Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus speak out and are featured in the film. (Source: www.energyautonomy.org)
After the film’s debut in Germany, an English version will be distributed internationally in cinemas and formatted for televised broadcasting.
[18-03-2010]

Dedication of Rooftop PV Power Plant on the BOSCH Parking Garage Stuttgart

With a symbolic push of the button, Baden-Württemberg’s Environment Minister, Tanja Gönner (CDU) officially started up one of Baden-Württemberg’s largest solar power generators. The solar power plant, installed on the rooftop of the distinctive BOSCH parking garage at Stuttgart’s state trade fair grounds (Messe Stuttgart), spans one of Germany’s busiest highways, the A8.

SunStrom, under contract by Bosch Solar Energy AG, began installation of the 970 kWp solar power plant for the Stuttgart Airport GmbH in September 2009, and completed the system in just 4 months. Each of the two parking garage “fingers” is outfitted with 8 rows consisting of over 2,000 mono crystalline Bosch solar power modules, for a total of 4,238 modules. The solar power plant will generate approx. 870,000 kWh of eco-friendly energy per year in an area of 7,000 square meters. This is enough energy to supply 250 four-person households annually with power.

The realization of the solar power plant was riddled with challenges. Architecturally, the parking garage’s two rooftops are three-dimensional masterpieces. The rooftops are sloped not only over the length of the building (max. 12.6% slope) but also over the width of the garage (max. 7% slope). The curvilinear rooftops required detailed and exact planning and installation of the system so as to avoid shading of the modules. Additionally, the foundations of the modules had to be specially designed and individually plumbed. During installation the highway remained open. It was essential that SunStrom ensure the safety of the automobile traffic passing under the construction site.

After successfully meeting the many challenges such an innovative project poses, the mark has been set for solar power projects in the future.

[11-12-2009]

: Aerial view –Stuttgart Airport (Source: Stuttgart Airport)

: Solar power plant on the „fingers“ of the Bosch parking garage at the Stuttgart Airport and Trade Fair Grounds (Source: BOSCH)

: (left to right): Airport President Walter Schoefer, Regional President Thomas Bopp, Environment Minister Tanja Gönner, Airport Director Prof. Georg Fundel and Holger von Hebel, Executive Chairman of Bosch Solar Energy AG, officially started up the solar plant on the roof of the Bosch parking garage. (Source: Stuttgart Airport)

SunStrom Takes Part in "Run for Nepal"

For the third year straight, SunStrom employees gathered at the track and field complex of the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium in Freiberg, Germany, from the 4th to the 6th of Sept. 2009 for the 5th annual Run for Nepal. The Run for Nepal is a 48 hour event organized by the Namaste Nepal Schüler-GmbH under the motto: "Many small steps for our friends in Nepal.“ The runners were sponsored and the monies collected from the Run go to the children of Gati to provide better learning and living conditions.

SunStrom supported the Run again this year as a sponsor. Employees of SunStrom alongside their two General Managers ran their laps. With 17 team members this year, SunStrom was this year’s sponsor with the most participants.

After running for 48 hours, over 1,000 participants ran together a total of over 9,000 km, raising almost 25,000 Euros for the Nepal project.

[07/2009]