Recently, the innovative PV module – ET Cell Optimizer Module (COM) successfully obtained two certificates issued by VDE and ETL, meaning that the module’s design, type and safety conform to international high standards of PV modules. The two institutes are among the world’s most prominent independent testing organizations for electric and electronic products. The new… Read more »
The Spanish company Grupo Clavijo has finished work on the new solar photovoltaic installation of 2 MW in the Zupanja region of Croatia. This solar park -in operation since September- has trackers of 1 horizontal axis (model SP1000), known for their robustness, adaptability to the ground and optimal performance. Grupo Clavijo is a Spanish company… Read more »
The close working relationship between Delta Marine and the Damen Shipyards Group has produced a new vessel design – called a Damen Renewables Service Vessel 3315. The Scotland-based offshore wind service provider recently awarded Damen a construction contract looking towards a launch in early 2017. “For the last couple of years we’ve been working on… Read more »
Nacelle testing laboratory started operation Electrical certification on the test stand instead of prolonged field tests – Fraun- hofer IWES ́ “Dynamic Nacelle Testing Laboratory” will serve to satisfy the ex- pectations and demands of many wind turbine manufacturers. After an 18- month construction period, the 100-tonne generator of a 3 MW wind turbine was… Read more »
Brussels, 21 October 2015 – The closing event of the Performance Plus project was held in Brussels to present the project’s conclusions and recommendations for policy-makers, regulators, industry and technical experts. The Performance Plus project, supported by the European Commission, focused on developing and demonstrating models and tools to monitor, control and test PV plants…. Read more »
Leadership positions in emerging markets Brazil & India Spain, 16 October 2015. Ingeteam, an independent supplier of electrical conversion equipment, has announced today that it reached the milestone of 30 gigawatts (GW) of installed wind power capacity worldwide. The company hit this important mark after the commissioning of power converters accounting for 2 GW of… Read more »
Wallerfing, 20 October 2015 – IdeemaTec Deutschland GmbH is supplying seven large-scale projects for the Jordan PV government programme, and in so doing will receive a market share of over 50% of the current tracker market. For the total volume of 101 MW, the horizontally tracking safeTrack Horizon tracking systems with a tracking range of… Read more »
Augsburg/Chicago/Munich, October 20, 2015 – meteocontrol GmbH, a PV service provider for monitoring, and 3megawatt GmbH, a solar asset management software provider, plan to intensify their working relationship in the future. The partnership will focus on developing an all-in-one full featured solution to manage large photovoltaic system portfolios. Both companies will create a seamless interface… Read more »
On the website www.energy-charts.de, data on electricity exports and imports for Germany are prepared and displayed graphically by scientists of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE. The graphs show that Germany generates additional revenues in the billions each year through electricity exports. Revenues totaled about 1.7 billion euros in 2014, for example. Similarly,… Read more »
Significant performance decreases of between 5-10% were experienced in Europe’s largest solar markets, following sub-par solar irradiance levels and harsh weather conditions throughout H1 2015, according to Vaisala, a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement. While irradiance levels improved considerably in the second quarter of the year for some key markets in Western Europe,… Read more »
Innovative Knowledge Transfer Partnership blade project achieves important milestone in move to shorter and more cost effective blade tests. A project to develop a new bi-axial blade fatigue testing method – aimed at reducing fatigue test times by almost a half and overall test times by a quarter – has achieved an important milestone after… Read more »
At an official signing ceremony held today, Vestland Offshore and Safeway signed a purchase agreement for the delivery of one plus two (1+2) Seagull class motion compensated gangway systems. The first system will be installed on the Vestland Cygnus, a Wärtsilä VS485 MKIII. The vessel will undergo a conversion program at the Fjellstrand shipyard where… Read more »
Independent service provider offers end-to-end service portfolio for managing PV system operations AUGSBURG, Germany, Oct. 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Raising Power, a young, dynamic enterprise that strives to achieve optimal PV system performance and maximum yield for its customers, announced today that the newly founded company will offer technical management solutions and services for all… Read more »
up to now, there was little evidence to prove that damage or fires were caused by lightning. Lightning strikes can not only cause dangerous fires but can also give rise to great financial losses in the case of surge damage. This is especially critical for smart grids, solar panels and wind turbines, but also for… Read more »
(Alameda, CA- October 14, 2015) Blymyer Engineers, the nation’s leading design firm for utility scale solar projects, announced today the company has been selected as the exclusive engineering firm for the 45 MW AC Sandstone solar project in Florence Arizona. Swinerton Builders, EPC for the project, chose Blymyer Engineers to provide engineering for Sandstone, which… Read more »
HeavyLift@Sea GmbH was assigned by Deutsche Oel & Gas AG with the Project Management of planning and installing the first new offshore natural gas production platform in Alaska’s Cook Inlet since 2000. The project involved installing a monopod platform, laying a subsea pipeline over a distance of 24 km and accomplishing the horizontal directional drilling… Read more »
Advanced Materials Key to High-efficiency Solar Technology TAOYUAN, Taiwan, October 13, 2015 – DuPont Microcircuit Materials (DuPont) recently collaborated with REC, a leading global provider of solar energy solutions, on its high-efficiency, award-winning TwinPeak solar panels. The metallization grid of the solar cells powering the TwinPeak solar panels is made using DuPontTM Solamet® PV76x photovoltaic… Read more »
Yaskawa Electric Corporation, a world leader in industrial robotics, electrical drives and frequency converters, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. The company is arranging special events worldwide to mark this special milestone. In Finland, Yaskawa will be participating in the Technologia 2015 exhibition in Helsinki, Finland, together with its Finnish subsidiary, The Switch, which… Read more »
Ellzee, 12.10.2015. Since September the SolarMax group manufactures string and central inverters of the brand SolarMax for grid connected solar power systems in the Bavarian town Burgau. The group, which has been established in July 2015, overtook all the trademark and production equipment of the insolvent Sputnik Engineering AG. Following the successfully building up of… Read more »
• One of Europe’s largest onshore wind power plants gets even larger• Clyde Extension will add 54 Siemens SWT-3.2-101 wind turbines• Siemens to provide long-term service Siemens has received an order for the supply, installation and commissioning of 54 direct drive wind turbines. The SWT-3.2-101 turbines will add another 172.8 megawatts (MW) to SSE’s Clyde… Read more »
Hamburg/Edinburgh: Senvion, one of the world’s biggest wind turbine manufacturers, has signed acontract with Vattenfall to supply 16 Senvion 3.4M104 turbines to the Ray Wind Farm. Located on the Ray Estate near Kirkwhelpington in Northumberland, Ray Wind Farm will have a total rated output of 54.4 megawatts (MW) and will produce enough electricity to power… Read more »
• Sixth offshore wind power plant to be handed over to the customer in 2015• Power plants put nearly two further gigawatts of wind power online• Clean electricity for nearly two million households Today marked the official inauguration of the Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore wind power plant: 78 Siemens wind turbines, each with a capacity… Read more »
Delta, a global leader in power and thermal management, will demonstrate its broad range of PV solar inverters and energy storage solution in Birmingham, October 13-15. At UK’s largest exhibition dedicated to the solar energy and renewable energy industry, Delta will present high efficiency inverters that are designed to deliver maximum yield from small- to… Read more »
Burnaby, Canada, October 6, 2015 – Schneider ElectricTM Solar Business, a global leader in solutions for the solar industry, is pleased to announce that they have been selected by Sunseap Group Pte Ltd, the largest clean energy provider in Singapore, as one of its major solar inverter suppliers for a solar leasing tender. The Housing… Read more »
Australia’s solar Photovoltaic (PV) cumulative installed capacity hit 4 Gigawatts (GW) in 2014, overtaking wind power, which totaled 3.8 GW ‘Feed-in tariffs and renewable energy target schemes, along with other subsidies and support initiatives, have had a major impact on the solar PV and wind industries,’ says analyst LONDON, UK (GlobalData), 7 October 2015 –… Read more »
Hamburg/Edinburgh: Senvion, one of the world’s biggest wind turbine manufacturers, has signed a major new contract with leading renewable energy developer Blue Energy to supply 32 turbines to the developer’s Beinneun Wind Farm in Scotland. With a total rated output of 108.8 megawatts (MW), the wind farm will produce enough electricity to power more than… Read more »
On the occasion of solar energy UK show, QOS ENERGY, leading provider of cutting-edge solar monitoring software, will be offering free access, until the end of the year, to their CMMS portal to UK commercial rooftop businesses. The recent announcement of the DECC sent shock waves across the UK solar industry but also astounded some… Read more »
San Diego, CA/USA and Zug/Switzerland, 05 October 2015: UpWind Solutions, Inc., North America’s leading independent full service provider for the wind industry, and ROMO Wind, a Danish-Swiss wind turbine optimizer, have recently entered into a strategic relationship. With the partnership, ROMO Wind’s patented iSpin technology, which measures the wind in front of the rotor, will… Read more »
Peter van Berkel to lead continued growth and expansion in the region MILTON KEYNES, UK – October 5, 2015 – Enphase Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENPH), a global energy technology company, announced today that Peter van Berkel has been appointed general manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He is focused on building scale… Read more »
Small-scale wind turbine directly connected to internal electricity network Investment provides opportunities for new Flemish wind technology Unique monitoring system for birds and bats ZWIJNDRECHT – Flemish Minister of Energy, Annemie Turtelboom, today inaugurated a small-scale wind turbine at the site of the Belgian dredging and environmental group DEME. The project is part of a… Read more »
Just days before the Seatrade Offshore Marine and Workboats Middle East in Abu Dhabi beginning 5th of October, Tuco Marine of Denmark discloses their new Dive Support and ROV Support boats. These two new vessels are complementing Tuco´s range of ProZero Workboats and Daughter Crafts and the new boats are dedicated the Dive and ROV… Read more »
Burnaby, Canada, October 1, 2015 – Schneider ElectricTM Solar Business, a global leader in solutions for the solar industry, is pleased to announce that they have been listed as an approved PV Inverter Manufacturer for Dubai Electric and Water Authority’s (DEWA) solar rooftop and net metering program, Shams Dubai. This program is one of DEWA’s… Read more »
Positive response: Hailo Wind Systems convinces with technology and service for the international wind power sector Hailo Wind Systems products and innovations in opera- tion: the attendance of the partner of international wind power systems manufacturers and operators at the HUSUM Wind show – one of the most important trade fairs focus- sing on the… Read more »
SINGAPORE, 1 OCTOBER 2015 – SGX Catalist-listed SBI Offshore Limited (“SBI Offshore” or the “Group”) announced today that its 51%-owned subsidiary, Graess Energy Pte Ltd (“Graess Energy”), through a collaboration between Gräss Solartechnik Schweiz SA (“GSS”) and China Machinery Engineering Corporation (“CMEC”), has received a letter of award for the sale of solar power in… Read more »
Leading renewable energy consultancy, SgurrEnergy, has conducted a technical lender’s engineer assignment supporting the 49.5MW Tenaga wind farm to financial closure. The wind farm, located approximately 30km southwest of Gharo, will help Pakistan cope with the power shortages which continue to hinder development throughout the country. SgurrEnergy has been involved in the project since 2011… Read more »
Oxford Technologies, a world-leading developer of Remote Handling systems for extremely hostile environments including Nuclear Decommissioning, Nuclear Fusion, Space and High-Energy Physics, will be demonstrating its Dexter Master/Slave remote handling technology live at the NDA Supply Chain event in Manchester in November www.decommsupplyevent.co.uk. Dexter is a state-of-the-art Telemanipulator Arm optimised for a human operator and… Read more »