Austria’s Lenzing plans new photovoltaic plant

SINGAPORE (ICIS)–Lenzing is planning to build a new ground-mounted photovoltaic plant in Upper Austria state, the specialty fibres maker said on Tuesday.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the plant is scheduled to take place in summer 2021, the company said in a statement, without providing financial details of the project.

After the expected commissioning in the second half of 2021, the plant’s output will amount to 5.5MWpeak, which corresponds to the average annual electricity demand of more than 1,700 households, it said.

“This project is part of Lenzing’s global energy concept, which aims to provide electricity from 100% renewable sources in order to reduce CO2 intensity by 50% already in 2030 and to be globally climate neutral in 2050,” Lenzing said.