CWind, a leading provider of services to the offshore wind industry, announced today that they have been appointed by Geosea, offshore marine engineers, to undertake required secondary works at the Galloper Offshore Wind Farm for a period of approximately six months starting in December 2016. This involves a wide range of tasks including, paint repairs,… Read more »
Hamburg, 25 November 2016. Business in Finland continues to grow for Nordex: a major customer, ABO Wind, has ordered nine turbines from the 3 MW series with a rotor diameter of 131 metres through its Finnish subsidiary, ABO Wind Oy. Preparations for installation of the N131/3000 machines for a wind farm in western Finland are… Read more »
The Iranian Deputy Minister for Energy, Dr. Sattar Mahmoudi, and the Managing Director of the Renewable Energy Organization of Iran (SUNA), Dr. Seyed Mohammad Sadeghzadeh, welcomed more than 400 attendees, twice as many as expected, at the first Intersolar Summit Iran in Tehran on November 15, 2016. Main discussions were about grid-integration solutions, financing and… Read more »
Jan De Nul Group wins two DPC Innovation Awards, one for Project Design in Open Water (trenching tools Sunfish and Moonfish) and another for Project Design in Inland Dredging (engineered sediments for flood control dyke construction). The Dredging & Port Construction Innovation Awards 2016 are one of the industry’s most prestigious awards. The awards are… Read more »
• Milestone for new offshore wind turbine manufacturing plant • Political leaders and company representatives on hand to celebrate • First suppliers establishing themselves locally Today Siemens celebrated the topping out ceremony for its new wind turbine manufacturing facility in Cuxhaven, Germany, attended by Parliamentary State Secretary Enak Ferlemann, Lower Saxony’s State Secretary of Economic… Read more »
Flywheel Energy Storage device DuraStor® to be installed near Paris EDF and STORNETIC have launched a joint project on advanced smart grid storage solutions. The project serves to assess the performance of flywheel energy storage technology facing the requirements of a modern grid environment. As part of the collaboration, STORNETIC is going to deliver a… Read more »
With a three-year framework agreement ZITON will become main partner to provide jack-up vessels for major component replacement at Vattenfall’s offshore wind farms. Both companies agree that this is an important step in the right direction for a more efficient and cost reducing offshore wind market. To both Vattenfall and ZITON the key to offshore… Read more »
Ingeteam has recently launched to the market its new INGECON SUN CON40 power station and has now started assembling the first units for different utility-scale projects. This 40-foot-long ISO container is able to reach an output power of 4.92 MWAC, as it features three 1,500 VDC central inverters, each one providing 1,640 kW. This new… Read more »
Rotor blade manufacturing, master plug and mould design company to augment in-house blade development and manufacturing Hamburg: Senvion, a leading global manufacturer of wind turbines, has acquired 100 per cent of the shares of EUROS Group* in an all-cash transaction, just three months after announcing the acquisition of Kenersys assets in India. EUROS, located in… Read more »
Berlin, 23 November 2016. skytron® energy has been commissioned to provide monitoring and supervision technology for a 57.6 MWp solar power plant in Isabela, Puerto Rico. The plant named “Oriana” is owned by solar power producer and investor Sonnedix and is the largest plant of its kind in the Caribbean. Oriana has started producing clean… Read more »
The IndustrySkills 2016 in Basel was a major success for Meyer Burger with Fabien Gyger, an apprentice in automation mechanics, winning a gold medal and ensuring his spot at the WorldSkills 2017 in Abu Dhabi. The best young industrial talent in the MEM sector (machine, electronics and metal industries) competed for top medals in six… Read more »
Mobile solar containers with battery storage systems reduce energy costs by over 75% Wittenberg, Hainburg/Germany, 22.11.2016 – The German firm Tesvolt, which manufactures commercial storage systems, has entered into an exclusive cooperation agreement with the start-up Africa Green Tec. Tesvolt is supplying lithium storage systems for 50 solar containers with a total capacity of 3… Read more »
Marrakech, Berlin, November 21, 2016 – Dr. Paul Grunow, Co-founder and Board Member of the Photovoltaik Institut Berlin (PI Berlin) and Mr. Badr Ikken, General Director of l’Institut de Recherche en Energie Solaire et Energies Nouvelles (IRESEN) signed a cooperation agreement at the COP 22 climate summit in Marrakech, Morocco. The agreement defines a partnership… Read more »
Changzhou, China, Nov. 9, 2016 — TrinaBEST announced today that it has been awarded to design and construct a hybrid energy storage system in Nouakchott, Mauritania. This project is developed and operated by Damane Assurances Company. The project which encompasses 40kW solar system, 415kVA diesel generator system and 320 kWh energy storage system, is expected… Read more »
PES talks with Billy Stevenson, Managing Director, Deutsche Windtechnik Ltd, to find out about the growth in wind power in the UK and the prospects for the future. PES: Welcome to PES Wind magazine. Thanks for talking with us. Would you like to begin by explaining a little about the background of your organisation and… Read more »
LM Wind Power announces strategic collaboration with Chinese wind turbine manufacturer CSIC (China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation) HZ Windpower to deliver blades for its newly launched H151-5.0MW platform. The blades will be delivered from LM Wind Power’s plant in Jiangyin. The first sets are expected to be installed in Q4 2016 at Rudong wind farm. The… Read more »
Hamburg, 16 November 2016. Just a short time after the market launch of the N117/3600, in September 2016 the Nordex Group received the first order from WIND-consult Measuring Company for a project with the new turbine for IEC-2 sites. In November the first N117/3600 is to start operation in Bargeshagen, near Rostock. With a wind… Read more »
Oldenburg (Oldenburg/Germany) This year german business magazine FOCUS ® and Statista present again the fastest growing companies in Germany and honor the achievements of these players for the economy and society. The winning companies from various fields of industry act as innovators and thus secure the long term growth in Germany, according to Focus special…. Read more »
SeaRenergy and SMC will provide a broad range of offshore support services to Veja Mate. The services will start 01. November 2016 with the preparation of the foundations and transition pieces for the installation of the towers and turbines and has an initial term of 150 days. The scope of work includes: Full project management… Read more »
Topics surrounding the new energy world open up new market opportunities Munich, November 15, 2016 – The positive atmosphere of Intersolar Europe 2016 is still being felt, and the event is already providing more encouraging signs for the market. Almost 80% of the exhibition space at the world’s leading exhibition for the solar industry and… Read more »
Studies by leading wind energy consultant demonstrate excellent consistency and performance Vaisala, a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement, has released two independent verification studies conducted by Ecofys, an international consultancy based in Europe recently acquired by Navigant. The studies used two production Triton units deployed from March 5 – May 29, 2015 and… Read more »
– Sequential Q3 revenues up 15.6 percent to EUR 584m, adjusted EBITDA margin of 10.3 percent – Market expansion and conversion of conditional orders as catalyst for future growth – On track to meet full year guidance of EUR 2.25-2.3bn Hamburg: Senvion, a leading global manufacturer of wind turbines, has increased its revenues to EUR… Read more »
€3mn fund dedicated to researching the environmental impact of offshore wind Vattenfall, the Swedish energy company, has shortlisted projects for a €3mn scientific research programme to understand the environmental impacts of offshore wind. Sixteen projects have been shortlisted from an extensive list of almost 100 original applications by a specialist scientific panel comprised of environmental… Read more »
• Pioneering project in the Jordanian banking sector under the “Power-Wheeling”-regulation Sulzemoos, November 15th, 2016 / Phoenix Solar Overseas GmbH, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Phoenix Solar AG (ISIN DE000A0BVU93), a leading international photovoltaic system integrator listed on the official market (Prime Standard) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and its partner Al Rokh, a… Read more »
The Damen InvaSave ballast water treatment (BWT) system has won the Innovation in Port Equipment award at the inaugural IHS DPC Dredging and Port Construction Innovation Awards. These took place on the evening of the 10th of November in the Marriott Hotel in Mayfair, London. Damen InvaSave competed with four other finalists in its category… Read more »
Off-grid system safeguards only point of contact with the outside world from power cuts Frankfurt (Oder)/Germany, Dhaka/Bangladesh, 14.11.2016 – The solar module manufacturer Astronergy is equipping 8,500 post offices in Bangladesh with German-made photovoltaic modules. Four 250-watt modules on each post office, together with a battery storage device, will ensure a stable and independent power… Read more »
Agreement sees Greensolver manage the construction of a 10MW wind farm in France Greensolver, the independent technical expert for wind & solar farms, has just been appointed by Belgian renewable energy producer Elicio to manage the construction of a 10MW wind farm based in France. The French market is amongst the most complex in Europe… Read more »
Seacat Enterprise builds on core ingredients of an industry-leading offshore energy fleet, scaled to meet demands of long-term logistical charters far from shore 14th November 2016, Isle of Wight – Class-leading offshore energy support vessel operator, Seacat Services, is preparing to launch its first High Speed Utility Vessel (HSUV), Seacat Enterprise. The 27m South Boats IoW… Read more »
Following deliveries to the offshore business and the governmental organizations in Norway, Tuco Marine is now also to deliver to the Norwegian Aquaculture industry. Two ProZero 15m boats have been sold as High Pressure Cleaning Boats to Norwegian AKVA Group. Designed by a team of skilled engineers, through collaboration with multiple world leading aqua cultural… Read more »
9.1 MWp Solentegre plant obtains full government approval Largest photovoltaic power plant in Turkey Sulzemoos, November 11th, 2016 /, Phoenix Solar AG (ISIN DE000A0BVU93), a leading international photovoltaic system integrator listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and its Turkish partner Asunim Yenilenebilir Enerji Teknolojileri İnş. Müh. San. Tic. Ltd. Şti., a… Read more »
In the framework of the Kriegers Flak Offshore Wind Farm, a 600 MW offshore wind farm in the Danish Baltic Sea, together with the Combined Grid Solution interconnector project, Energinet.dk and 50Hertz Transmission GmbH awarded the Joint Venture Iemants – Jan De Nul Group the EPCI contract for 2 Gravity Based Foundations (GBF). Iemants joins… Read more »
Hamburg/ Melbourne: Senvion, a leading global manufacturer of wind turbines, has been selected by Nexif Energy as preferred supplier of the EPC contracts and maintenance agreements for the 25-turbine Glen Innes Wind Farm in New South Wales and the 59-turbine Lincoln Gap Wind Farm in South Australia. Combined, these projects will deliver over 300 megawatts… Read more »
The growing success of Imeon Energy’s hybrid inverters, combined with an ever increasing network of resellers across continents, has led the company to implement a strategy of proximity with its customers by opening local Service Centers to offer them the best service. After the French Center, covering Europe, it’s in South Africa, Port Elizabeth, where… Read more »
Strong revenue growth, positive EBIT and net profit for the quarter EBIT cumulative September at -0.4 million Euro, further improvement in gross margin Proceeds from sale of Bâtisolaire 3 power plant used to repay liabilities; net debt reduced to 21 million Euro Free order backlog of more than 130 million Euros, weighted project pipeline grows… Read more »
Assisting the testing of hydrogen production through solar power Tokyo, November 10th, 2016 – Solar Frontier has provided a total of 20 kW of CIS thin-film solar panels for Honda Motor Company’s 70MPa Smart Hydrogen Station (SHS), for which demonstration testing (1) commenced on October 24th in Tokyo, Japan. It marks the first time that… Read more »
Mumbai/Pforzheim/Freiburg, October 21, 2016 – 12,000 visitors, 800 conference attendees and 240 exhibitors: October 21 marked the end of the hugely successful eighth Intersolar India, India’s largest exhibition and conference for the solar industry, which was held at the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai. The number of visitors was 10% higher than at the previous… Read more »