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Unknown perpetrators stable 50 km cable from a fenced solar farm in Ahorn-Berolzheim, Baden-Württemberg, in southern Germany, a theft with a ton of material that could not be discreetly removed. The police estimated the value at around € 100,000, with repair costs that are probably higher.
The thieves must have used one or more trucks. The theft took place between 2 p.m. (CEST) on September 17 and 7 on September 18. The Lauda-Königshofen police station asked for information from everyone who observed suspicious activity in the vicinity of the site.
The solar farm in Ahorn-Berolzheim has a capacity of 11 MW. When it was put into use in 2010, it was one of the largest systems mounted on the ground in Germany.
The German broadcaster Südwestrundfunk reported an increase in cable thefts in the region. In July, copper cables worth € 200,000 were stolen from a large construction site in the Heilbronn district.
In Spain, the police broke a group this spring that specialized in the stealing of copper of photovoltaic systems in Andalusia and Extremadura. A total of 23 people were arrested.
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