Switzerland-Based MET Group Building 23-MW Solar Farm In Hungary; AI To Assist Project Team

Switzerland-Based MET Group Building 23-MW Solar Farm In Hungary. Photo: MET Group.

Switzerland-headquartered MET Group has announced that it has started building a 23-MWp expansion to its Kaba solar farm in eastern Hungary. According to the press release, the 23 MWp photovoltaic plant will cover an area of almost 32 hectares in which more than 33,000 solar panels will be installed. The construction of the solar park in the municipality of Kaba (about 200 km east of Budapest) is the result of an in-house, greenfield project development effort launched after the commissioning of the MET Kabai Solar Park (KSP) project in 2021.

This is MET Group’s seventh photovoltaic project and is scheduled to start commercial operations in the second half of 2024.

The company also stated that it is an interesting feature that during the construction of Kaba 2, the project management team will also be supported by AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology to follow the works in progress. The software will analyse visual data captured by drones on all aspects of the construction, including compliance with design execution and timeline to prevent errors, as well as to boost efficiency, according to a media document released by MET Group.

Last year, MET Group’s first solar park in Spain, the ‘Puerto Real 3’ project started commercial operations in December. The project site covers an area of 130 hectares in which more than 88,000 solar panels were installed. Also in June last year, Hungary launched its largest solar power plant. The plant built in Mezőcsát covers an area of ​​440 hectares, consisting of 4,66,000 solar panels, and can produce 372 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity annually. The investment represents the country’s largest continuous solar park, which will account for 8 percent of the total domestic solar-generated electricity. The newly commissioned power plant can produce 372 GWh of electricity annually. This amount of energy is sufficient to satisfy half a year’s energy consumption of a city with a population of two hundred thousand.