Rolls-Royce Lays Emphasis on Renewable Energy with New Solar Park

Dr. Otto Preiss, COO and Power Systems Chief Technology Officer, Rolls-Royce, along with Bene Müller, CEO, Solarcomplex, and property owner Gerhard Weber commenced the new Berghof solar park in Tengen, southern Germany.

The plant has an output of 3.7 megawatts and will generate around four million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year.

This new solar project enables the luxury car maker to take another step closer to its goal of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from its operations and facilities.

“With our Net Zero at Power Systems program, we are pursuing strict climate protection targets,” explained Dr. Otto Preiss. “With ambitious interim targets for 2030, we aim to be completely climate neutral by 2050 across all global sites and areas from production to supply chains to our product portfolio, i.e. in all three recognized categories Scope 1, 2, and 3. The company’s own sustainable power generation is a key element in saving greenhouse gas emissions. “In order to increase the feed-in of electricity from renewable sources into the grid near our plants, we are working even more closely with local partners. We are pleased to have found an experienced and competent cooperation partner in solarcomplex and to open the new solar park together today.”

German enterprise Solarcomplex has set an aim of converting the regional energy supply largely to renewable energies by 2030.

“Throughout Germany, the expansion of renewable power generation must be accelerated, and Baden-Württemberg has a particularly high need to catch up. This can only succeed if more and larger projects are also implemented for ground-mounted solar parks. Our Berghof solar park shows how it can be done,” said Bene Müller, CEO, Solarcomplex.