Germany's biggest, and newest, solar storage park is also an open-air solar laboratory. The goal is to use real-time data from the field to make forecasting ultra-accurate.
Solar power plants sit well with the German love of order - they usually consist of row upon orderly row of identical solar panels, all tilted at exactly the same angle and facing in exactly the same direction.
But the country's biggest solar storage park breaks with this perceived tradition. The solar park consists of more than a hundred arrays of mounted solar panels that look like they have been scattered randomly around the grassy field by some kind of mad scientist. The modules slope off at unexpected angles. There's not a straight row in sight.
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