WAVELABS Solar Metrology Systems has sold a SINUS-220 LED solar simulator to the internationally renowned Fraunhofer ISE. With its acquisition of WAVELABS LED technology, the renowned research institution and PV service provider plans to conduct PV cell technology characterization and possibly callibration in the future. The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy systems (ISE), Europe’s largest… Read more »
Julia Hamm, President and CEO of the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA), has issued the following statement on the adoption of the Paris climate agreement: “The historic climate agreement reached in Paris on Dec. 12 presents tremendous opportunities and challenges to all stakeholders across the the U.S. energy sector to build on our country’s leadership… Read more »
Blaubeuren, December 10, 2015 – Sol Futura Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH has today signed an agreement concerning the disposal of the shares that it holds in centrotherm photovoltaics AG. The Management Board of centrotherm photovoltaics AG has been negotiating a financing agreement to secure the company’s financing after the disposal of the interest by Sol Futura. The… Read more »
Spain, 10 December 2015. Ingeteam Wind business unit celebrated today its 20th anniversary, an important company milestone marking two decades of growth and success in the global wind industry. Since the manufacture of its first power converter named INGECON ® WIND in 1995, the company enjoyed steady growth and managed to consistently stay ahead of… Read more »
Phoenix Solar to build series of power plants on behalf of the Oklahoma-based Western Farmers Electric Cooperative • One of the largest project portfolios in the state of Oklahoma with a total nominal output of 26.6 MWp DC Sulzemoos, December 9, 2015 / Phoenix Solar, Inc., the San Ramon, California, based subsidiary of Phoenix Solar… Read more »
Energy storage pioneer signs capital round with investments by First Solar and Grupo ECOS Berlin (Germany) and Austin, TX (USA), December 8, 2015 – Market leader Younicos has signed agreements for $50 million in growth capital to further scale its deployment of intelligent energy storage solutions. The funding comes from a consortium that includes First… Read more »
Neuhausen-Hamberg (Germany),December 07th, 2015. It is only recently that 70 TPedge photovoltaicmodules have adorned the external façade of Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) laboratory in Freiburg (Germany). These modules are a joint development between Bystronic glass and the Fraunhofer ISE.Ten of these modules were already integrated into the façade in 2013 and still… Read more »
In the course of the last year, ELA Container Offshore GmbH has provided 15 ELA Offshore Wastewater Tanks to the Siemens AG to ensure the waste-water disposal of the platforms HelWin Alpha and BorWin Beta. Thanks to the DNV 2.7-1 certification of each tank, it is possible to transport and lift the tanks offshore. “The… Read more »
• 30 MW “Hywind Scotland” project with five Siemens turbines of Six-Megawatt-class• Collaboration on floating wind turbines started in 2009 Siemens is strengthening its collaboration with Norwegian company Statoil on floating offshore wind turbines. For the 30 megawatt (MW) Hywind Scotland Project, Siemens will supply five of its SWT-6.0-154 direct drive offshore wind turbines. The… Read more »
Seven months ahead of the exhibition around 80 percent of exhibition space has already been booked Munich, 04 December 2015 – Seven months ahead of the start of ees Europe 2016, most of the exhibition space for Europe’s Largest Exhibition for Batteries and Energy Storage Systems has already been booked – and this despite the… Read more »
SAN JOSE, CA – December 2015 – Bentek Solar, manufacturer of a broad range of products connecting PV panels to inverters worldwide for the residential, commercial and utility-scale marketplaces, has received patents for the Bentek inverter PowerRack and PowerSkid – patent numbers D739,819 S and D739,346 S. Bentek Inverter PowerRack with PowerShield “Bentek Solar continues… Read more »
On Friday 27th November 2015, the cable laying vessel Isaac Newton has been officially handed over to Jan De Nul Group by the shipyard Uljanik Brodogradiliste in Pula, Croatia. The same day still, the vessel set sail to Norway to pick up the cables for its first job. The cables will then be transported to… Read more »
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson MP, recently conducted a three-day trade delegation to Israel on a mission to strengthen London’s economic and commercial ties to technology companies and business leaders. As one of the largest global inverter companies, SolarEdge was invited to participate in the trade mission. Mr. Lior Handelsman, Vice President of Marketing… Read more »
Martifer Solar has signed a new O&M contract of 7 MW to supervise and provide O&M services for the company Garnell in Italy The 8 PV plants were installed in rooftops and are located in the North East region of the country Martifer Solar, a subsidiary of Martifer SGPS, has added 8 PV rooftop plants… Read more »
Certification confirms that wind turbine component is designed, documented and manufactured in accordance with design assumptions, applicable standards and technical requirements for safety, function and quality Component certification of the DFM 3000 statorless water cooled Ingecon® Wind converter accelerates the certification process of new wind turbine designs that use this component Hamburg, Germany – 1… Read more »
Significant yield losses caused by sand and fine dust 1 December 2015 – In many regions of the world, sand and fine dust cause photovoltaic power plants to experience considerable yield losses. Although the manual or automatic cleaning of modules is intended to remedy this situation, it may actually damage the solar panels’ glass surfaces…. Read more »
Capelle a/d IJssel, the Netherlands, December 1, 2015 – Barge Master announces the official launch of a motion compensated gangway after building a track record in motion compensated lifting. ‘The overall offshore logistics consists of safe and efficient transfer of cargo and people. While we are already known for our motion compensated lifting, customers asked… Read more »
Wind farm owners representing 12 % of global turbine assets have founded a new peer-to-peer online platform called o2o Wind, dedicated to the exchange of knowledge and experience on operation and maintenance issues. The o2o Wind forum is the first initiative of the kind aimed at fostering wind farm O&M best practice through a collaborative… Read more »
Several ELA Offshore Special Units in use on the high seas One container is not just like another. For each project different specifications and requirements for a container come up. The same applies to the Offshore industry in which more and more special containers for individual works on the high sea are needed. ELA Offshore… Read more »
• 57 direct drive wind turbines for three wind farms• Long-term service contracts included• Clean energy for roughly 50,000 households Siemens has been awarded orders for three onshore wind projects in Scotland, supplying up to 50,000 households in South and North Ayrshire and Lockerbie. The contracts also include long-term service and maintenance. For the Dersalloch… Read more »
First commercial offshore measurement with IWES LiDAR buoy The buoy with equipment for laser-supported remote sensing (LiDAR) passed its first real test in the shape of the winter storm “Freja” with flying colours just one week after its installation: Significant wave heights of up to 4.5 m were measured in the Danish North Sea off… Read more »
• Merck´s new lisicon formulation enables greater power generation of more than 50 W/m² in semi-transparent Belectric OPV modules• Availability of gray modules is creating broad possibilities for architects and designers Darmstadt and Nuremberg, Germany, November 26, 2015 – Merck, a leading science and technology company, announced that semi-transparent gray-colored organic photovoltaic (OPV) modules are… Read more »
Senvion is marking the commercial operation of the Rivière-du-Moulin wind project in Quebec, Canada. With 175 2 megawatt (MW) turbines totaling 350 MW, the wind project consists of Senvion MM92 and MM82 Cold Climate Version (CCV) type turbines. Several of the turbines are equipped with Senvion de-icing technology, adapted for cold Canadian climate conditions. The… Read more »
Oldenburg. The Convent Offshore GmbH was awarded last week (Nov 17th, 2015) by the German news magazine named Focus as one of the growth champions 2016. Thereby the company has established itself as a specialist for personnel services in the offshore wind energy.The company lies with an average growth of 146 percent between 2011 and… Read more »
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE has installed 70 photovoltaic modules on the outer façade of one of its lab buildings. The modules were developed and produced by the Institute and demonstrate the interplay of different technologies. Together with industry, Fraunhofer ISE developed a crystalline PV module called “TPedge” using a process that… Read more »
San Jose, CA, USA, November 23, 2015 – JuiceBox Energy, a privately-held Silicon Valley company committed to providing safe, reliable, intelligent, and connected energy storage, announces the first Hawaii installation of its 8.6 kWh Energy Storage System with Rising Sun Solar on the island of Maui. JuiceBox Energy partnered with Rising Sun Solar, one of… Read more »
Long-term deal strengthens commercial partnership and enables global wind developers, owners, and operators to benefit from enhanced forecasting services Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation, has signed a long-term international wind energy forecasting agreement with Vaisala, a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement. The agreement was signed following a competitive… Read more »
ELA Container Offshore GmbH delivered a 10 ft Offshore Container solution for WINDEA Offshore GmbH & Co. KG that is equipped as a Mobile Rescue Container. After a short planning and production time the first container of this type has been finished and delivered in June. Injuries and diseases in offshore windfarms always mean big… Read more »
• Wind turbines with total capacity of 130 MW to be erected by the end of 2016• Auction system promotes high-performance technology• 42 direct-drive turbines, with 3 and 3.2 megawatt capacities for 3 wind farms Siemens has received orders for three wind power plants with a total capacity of 130 megawatts (MW) within a period… Read more »
Prague/Czech Republic. Today the 2015 European Solar Prize was awarded in a solemn frame at the Waldstein Palace in Prague. This year, EUROSOLAR honored twelve nominees from seven different countries. The ceremony took place at the house of the Senate of the Czech Republic along with the Czech Solar Prize presentation. In addition to the… Read more »
In the “iURBAN” project, an interdisciplinary team made up of experts is researching Europe’s transformation into Smart Energy Cities. With the help of information and communications technology (ICT), an intelligent energy supply can be achieved at the local level. Even at Fraunhofer ISE, researchers are also involved in the “iURBAN” project. Sebastian Gölz and his… Read more »
55 MWp equipped with leading German supervision and monitoring technology Berlin, 19 November 2015. skytron® energy now provides monitoring and supervision for nine solar PV power plants in Thailand with a total of 55MWp of installed power. The most recently added six plants in Central Thailand have a capacity of 37MWp. Together with the other… Read more »
Seajacks International, a world leading offshore installation and maintenance contractor in the offshore wind and oil and gas sectors, has today taken successful delivery of its fifth self-propelled jack-up vessel, the ‘Seajacks Scylla’. Built by Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea, Scylla is the world’s largest and most capable installation jack up vessel to date and… Read more »
Hamburg: Senvion, one of the world’s biggest wind turbine manufacturers, acquired RodPack technology from Chase Corporation in November 2015. The material is already used in the blade for the Senvion 6.2M152 and is anticipated to be integrated in future blade designs for both onshore and offshore turbines. RodPack, which substitutes the standard glass fabrics used… Read more »
Paris 18 November: Dr Lars Landberg, a meteorologist at DNV GL, has written a book that will help non-meteorologists understand the critical concepts that underpin wind energy technology and project success. The fundamentals of meteorology dictate the success or failure of wind projects, says Dr Landberg, yet many of the industry’s decision makers lack a… Read more »
In early 2013, the local council from Nuthe-Urstromtal decided to designate a special PV zone in Lynow, a village within the Federal State of Brandenburg. The decision of the council was unanimous as to which tract of land would be appropriate to allow for PV development. It was decided to designate a location that until… Read more »