Solar points the way to a hopeful future

The roofs Mathieu refers to are those on logistics assets – a workstream which PATRIZIA Associate Director – Asset Management, Tim Schotte, leads on. “In PATRIZIA’s portfolio alone, we have six million square metres of available logistics roof space,” Tim states. “If fully covered in solar panels, this could power up to 200,000 homes.

“Bringing together our expertise in real assets, we have identified this opportunity and fitted almost 600,000 square metres of solar panels across our logistics portfolio in the Netherlands, the UK, Belgium, Germany and Spain.”

This ‘solarfication’ programme is already generating enough clean energy to power almost 20,000 households, with projects in the Netherlands accounting for the vast majority of roof-mounted solar panels in PATRIZIA’s portfolio.

And it is in the Netherlands that PATRIZIA’s largest example of solarfication can be found at the 210,000 square-metre Maasvlakte logistics development in Rotterdam’s harbour area, where solar developer, Sunrock, has installed a 120,000 square-metre photovoltaic (PV) system on its roof.

One of the largest rooftop solar installations in Europe, Maasvlakte alone has the capacity to meet the annual energy needs of 8,000 homes.