It is a Hamburg landmark: the Nautical Center on the Bubendeyufer ensures order in the Port of Hamburg and coordinates shipping traffic in the port. A lot of energy is needed there to operate the electronically controlled monitoring and regulation of ship movements in the Port of Hamburg. Q Cells, a full-service provider of clean energy solutions in the areas of solar systems, solar power plants, energy storage and electricity contracts, has implemented a photovoltaic system with Q.Peak Duo solar modules to supply its own electricity in collaboration with the Hamburg-based company Nordic Solar GmbH. The 53 kWp system will produce more than 45,000 kWh of clean energy per year for the operation of the nautical headquarters and will also help to_save more than 27 tons of_CO2 annually.

Without the work of the navigators employed at the Nautical Center, shipping traffic in the Port of Hamburg would not function. More than 9,000 seagoing vessels arrive at the port every year to tranship their goods. In addition, there are a further 12,000 ship movements within the port. The Nautical Centre coordinates all these ship movements to enable efficient and time-optimized use of the port.

"We need a lot of energy for the electronically controlled display of the ship's movements and the air conditioning in the nautical control center, which has a major impact on our operating costs. So it made sense for us to think about alternatives. We quickly came up with the plan to simply cover a large part of our energy requirements with self-produced solar power by installing a solar system. This way, we can reduce our energy costs and increase our sustainability at the same time," says Kevin Koch, planning engineer at HPA. "In the Hamburg-based company Nordic Solar GmbH and Q Cells, we have found the ideal partners to implement this project with high efficiency and quality."

"It was important to us to plan and implement a solar system that was optimally tailored to the needs and local conditions of the Nautical Headquarters. Performance and quality play a particularly important role for us, as we want to ensure that the customer does not have to worry about the reliability and performance of their solar system. That's why we opted for solar modules from Q Cells," says Christiane Meyer-Pohl, Managing Director of Nordic Solar GmbH.