Changzhou, China, Dec. 6, 2016 – TrinaBEST, a key global market Energy Storage System provider, announced today that it has signed an agreement to provide 1st shipment of 2MW/2MWh TrinaMega to EU. The project is mainly designed for Triad and Frequency Regulation due to the loss of inertia for the grid with the ramp up… Read more »
Strategic order for microCELL OTF high-throughput, high-productivity laser systems gains new customer for 3D-Micromac Chemnitz, Germany, December 12, 2016–3D-Micromac AG, a leading supplier of laser micromachining and roll-to-roll laser systems for the photovoltaic, medical device and electronics markets, today announced that it has received an order for three of its microCELL OTF laser systems from… Read more »
• 60.6 megawatts wind power plant in Gyeongsangbuk Province • 17 direct drive wind turbines including new model SWT-3.6-130 • Second project for customer SK D&D Co., Ltd. Siemens Wind Power has received an order to supply 17 direct drive wind turbines for the Uljin onshore wind power plant in Gyeongsangbuk province on the east… Read more »
Talesun Solar, a global leader in photo-voltaic modules, solutions, and services, today announced that it has supplied 96 MW to ColGreen North Shore LLC – for its solar project in California, from Talesun Solar Thailand factory. In accordance with the ColGreen North Shore Contract issued thereunder, Talesun Solar will supply high-efficiency poly-crystalline modules approximately 96 MW in… Read more »
Leading electrical connector manufacturer Multi-Contact is to be known as Staubli Electrical Connectors from 1 January 2017. The company has been a member of the Staubli Group for almost 15 years and its worldwide name change will align its brand identity with the rest of the group. “As far as our customers and suppliers are… Read more »
Meriaura’s second EcoCoaster m/v Mirva VG was baptized yesterday in Kokkola, Finland, where the vessel had arrived to load fertilizers of Yara to be carried to Lübeck. Environmentally friendly VG EcoCoasters are 103 meters long and 13.6 meters wide 1A-ice class dry cargo ships, with cargo capacity of 4850 tonnes. – We are very proud… Read more »
Hefei, China / Dec 9, 2016 – Sungrow, the world’s leading PV inverter manufacturer, announced recently that its company testing center has been qualified by Underwriters Laboratories (UL), to participate in the UL Witness Testing Data Program (WTDP). This approval, together with those received from CSA, TÜV Rheinland, and TÜV Sud, has again proven Sungrow’s position… Read more »
SINGAPORE, DEC. 9, 2016 – Upsolar (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., a subsidiary of Upsolar, a leading provider of solar PV modules and services, Koine a design company specializing in floating technology, and Upsolar’s local installation partner CW, recently deployed a large floating PV system at Tengeh Reservoir in Singapore making it the world’s largest floating solar… Read more »
Effective immediately Heraeus Photovoltaics President Andreas Liebheit, has been nominated Vice Chairman of Asian Photovoltaic Industry Association (APVIA), one of the worldwide most influential associations of PV related enterprises, scientific institutions and related organizations in Asian countries. “It is my great honor to take the role of Vice Chairman of APVIA, a leading PV industrial… Read more »
The new rooftop PV system featuring Delta 50kW string inverters generates more solar electricity annually than required by almost all 7400 local inhabitants of the nearby city Port-Saint-Louis-Du-Rhône. On June 28 at the sea terminal of Port-Saint-Louis-Du-Rhône, Méditourbe, a regional peat and compost producer, and Cap Vert Energie, an independent renewable energy producer, inaugurated a… Read more »
Younicos to provide expertise in the integration of storage and markets / project to receive 50m Euro federal funding / enera also named “Landmark in the Land of Ideas” Berlin (Germany) and Austin, TX (USA), December 7, 2016 – Battery storage leader Younicos welcomes the launch of the showcase enera project. The four-year regional trial… Read more »
Hamburg, Germany, Monday, 5th December 2016 – HANSA HEAVY LIFT has been awarded the ISO 50001 Energy Management Certification for best practice in energy management. Auditors from the classification society body DNV GL certified the heavy lift specialist after its ships and offices were found in compliance with ISO standards. “With an effective energy management… Read more »
Fremont, USA / Dec 7, 2016 – The Sacramento Kings have announced the completion of their 700kW rooftop array on top of their Golden 1 Center home arena. The venue will be the first indoor sports arena to have its entire energy supply sourced from solar, with a 700kW rooftop array, combined with energy supplied from… Read more »
Powerstar, designer and manufacturer of the Virtue energy storage system, has launched its latest innovation – Virtue EV – one of the world’s first integrated rapid/fast electric vehicle and energy storage systems. Virtue EV is powered by a local off-grid energy storage solution, allowing a site to charge electric vehicles without investing in costly upgrades… Read more »
Augsburg, 12/07/2016 – meteocontrol GmbH, a PV service provider headquartered in Augsburg, delivers plant owners and operators an efficient total package for the rapid, cost-efficient upgrade of the monitoring units in their PV systems. The company has provided proof of its expertise once again at the 3 MW solar park “Abuzaderas” operated by Tauber-Solar in… Read more »
Hamburg, Germany, 9th December 2016 – Henry Woo is to head up the Asia-Pacific (APAC) division at HANSA HEAVY LIFT, taking over from Joerg Roehl. Henry Woo, who will be based at the shipping line’s Asia headquarters in Singapore, has two decades of experience in the supply chain and shipping industry, including senior roles with… Read more »
Hamburg, 8 December 2016. E.ON has placed a new order with the Nordex Group for a 228 MW project in the United States. Nordex will be installing 76 AW125/3000 turbines at the Bruenning’s Breeze Wind Farm in Texas. The IEC-2b turbine with its rotor diameter of 125 metres is designed for medium wind speed conditions… Read more »
85 percent of the O&M customers are satisfied or very satisfied with the on-the-spot operations and maintenance service Goldbeck Solar GmbH successfully completed its latest customer satisfaction survey. Almost all respondents were satisfied or very satisfied with the quality of the service provider. Especially the commercial processing and the maintenance technicians were rated positively (5.1… Read more »
Preparing for the World’s Largest Subsea Exhibition and Conference SubSea Expo in Aberdeen in February 2017, Tuco Marine of Denmark discloses their new ProZero 15m ROV Support boat. The new vessel complements Tuco’s range of ProZero Workboats and Daughter Crafts and the new boat are dedicated to the ROV support boat market. The boat is… Read more »
Bangkok, Thailand / Dec 5, 2016 – Sungrow, the world’s largest PV inverter manufacturer, showcased its SG60KTL and SG50KTL-M model string inverters, at Solar & Off-grid Renewables | Solar Finance & Investment Southeast Asia 2016. Sungrow’s SG60KTL and SG50KTL-M string inverters—featuring 99% maximum efficiency, 4 MPPT’s, a 1.3 DC/AC ratio (up to 1.4 for the SG60KTL)—are specially… Read more »
Hamburg/Montreal: Senvion, a leading global manufacturer of wind turbines, announces that today, 47 Senvion wind turbines started spinning at the 150 MW Mesgi’g Ugju’s’n windfarm in Quebec, Canada. It is the biggest First Nations windfarm in Canada and can power about 50,500 households with clean, renewable energy for one year. The project is an equal… Read more »
• Milestone for new offshore wind power logistics concept • Ro-Ro-vessel can carry multiple large direct drive nacelles per trip Sea transportation and Roll on-Roll off-loading (Ro-Ro) are both key in Siemens’ new offshore logistics concept launched in 2015. Now the company has commissioned its first specialized transport vessel, the Rotra Vente. It fulfills the… Read more »
SHANGHAI, November 28, 2016 / PRNewswire/ — JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (“JinkoSolar” or the “Company”) (NYSE: JKS), a global leader in the PV industry, today announced that its Shangrao production facility received IEC TS 62941 photovoltaic industry technical specification certification. IEC TS 62941 specification was launched in early 2016 and is administered by the International… Read more »
Colchester 1 December 2016 CWind Limited a leading provider of services to the offshore wind industry, announced today that it is now wholly-owned by Global Marine Systems Limited following the majority interest acquisition that took place in February this year and the subsequent purchase of the remaining minority stake in November. The acquisition bolsters CWind’s growth plans… Read more »
Project in Japan’s Hyogo Prefecture aims to revitalize community through renewable energy. Kyoto, Japan / Neuss, Germany, December 1, 2016. An enterprise jointly established by Kyocera Corporation, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc., Tokyo Century Corporation and Yonden Engineering Company, Incorporated today announced the completion of a 14.5-megawatt (MW) solar power plant in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. The… Read more »
Hamburg, 30 November 2016. The Nordex Group has received the first order for the installation of its second turbine introduced in September. The manufacturer will be setting up its light-wind N131/3600 turbine in December for GP Joule, a project developer. The site of the project is located near Husum at Windtestfeld Nord in Schleswig-Holstein, where… Read more »
Munich, November 30, 2016 – The success story of ees Europe continues: After experiencing very strong growth already this year, the organizers of Europe’s largest exhibition for batteries and energy storage systems are expecting an even more successful event in 2017. 80% of the exhibition space for the Munich exhibition, which is being held from… Read more »
Vattenfall, developer of EOWDC, to move in next year Vattenfall has signed leases totalling 24 years with Aberdeen Harbour Board, becoming the first offshore wind operator to invest long term in the port’s facilities. The company is set to establish its construction team’s base within the Regent Centre by next month and also move into… Read more »
Fronius, the global quality leader for solar energy, has carried out a very special project in Zwentendorf, Austria: a photovoltaic system has been installed on the site of a former nuclear power plant (NPP). Where once nuclear energy was to be produced, today clean, safe energy is generated from natural resources over an area of… Read more »
The next steps in the restructuring plan are the implementation of bondholder voting and preparation of an insolvency plan in protective shield proceedings. Frankfurt – Global law firm Dentons has advised 3W Power S.A. and AEG Power Solutions GmbH on the development and preparation of a new restructuring plan and agreement with key bondholders. The… Read more »
Greensolver advised BKW on purchase of 49MW of French wind assets Greensolver the independent technical expert for wind & solar asset has been selected by Swiss utility BKW to provide a technical due diligence on their recent acquisition of four French assets located across France. Greensolver advised the Swiss utility on one operating wind farm… Read more »
The global solar photovoltaic (PV) market is set to increase its installed capacity from around 225 Gigawatts (GW) in 2015 to 294.69 GW in 2016, and will see China remain the world’s largest market for annual solar PV installations, according to research and consulting firm GlobalData. The company’s latest report states that China installed 15.13… Read more »
CARGOTEC CORPORATION, PRESS RELEASE, 29 NOVEMBER 2016 AT 9.30 AM EET MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has won davit orders for two low-emission 81m service operation vessels (SOVs) designed to act as ‘mother-ships’ for wind turbine technicians. The contracts have been placed by Spanish shipyard GONDAN, responsible for the construction of the SOVs. The order was… Read more »
Pamplona. 29th November 2016. Ingeteam is finalizing the launch of its new PV string inverter, which will make it possible to achieve a power output of 100 kWAC in a single, 75 kg unit. This inverter will be on show at the Solar-Tec fair in Cairo (Egypt) from the 4th to 6th December, and is… Read more »
The Spanish company Grupo Clavijo has supplied all of the fixed structures for the Oriana I and Oriana II projects, with capacities of 28.62 and 29.03 MWp respectively, in the municipality of Isabela, Puerto Rico, which are owned by Sonnedix and were each completed within five months. The dual-column structures used were installed with a… Read more »
Seaway Heavy Lifting has been awarded a contract by Trianel Windkraftwerk Borkum II GmbH & Co. KG. The scope of work consists of the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of the turbine foundations for the Trianel Windpark Borkum II wind farm on the German continental shelf. The award is still subject to financial close… Read more »