An EWS Sonnenfeld® for every municipality

The days are getting longer again and there are more hours of sunshine. Before electrification, it was the sun that set people's daily routine and annual cycle. Today, we can use the sun's energy to generate solar power all year round. But we have been doing it reluctantly.

Austria currently generates 1.4 TWh of solar power. In order to achieve the national expansion targets of the government programme of renewable energy sources by 2030, we need to increase solar power generation tenfold in the next 10 years, i.e. by 11 TWh.

The team at EWS has developed a solar power solution for maximum electricity yield with minimal loss of acreage that allows you to utilise your agricultural land twice - the EWS Sonnenfeld®.

Local added value through double utilisation

As with wind energy, it is also important for us to find the best possible and eco-friendly type of photovoltaic system that uses the least amount of land, can be integrated well into the landscape and is accepted by the local population.

"The ideal case would be for the municipality to run a communal Sonnenfeld with citizen participation. The local farmer cultivates the land between the PV modules and harvests the organic solar field vegetables for the local farm shop. If only half of the 2100 Austrian municipalities were to set up a Sonnenfeld with an average area of 5 hectares, this would be equivalent to an annual solar power production of more than 3 TWh. This would already be a large proportion of the required 11 TWh." - that's Joachim Payr's vision.