ABB will supply an ABB Ability™ enabled microgrid and storage system to help integrate renewable solar and wind energy into the large tropical island’s power supply, reducing the need for fossil fuels and lowering the carbon footprint. ABB is a pioneer in microgrids, which because of their size and power are ideal for remote locations… Read more »
Category: Press Releases
Isotrol reaches the milestone of 25 GW of monitored renewable energy
Isotrol, an independent provider of monitoring and control systems for renewable energy, reaches 25 GW of monitored power. The company achieves this important “brand” after winning 6 new control centers in 2017 that add an installed capacity of more than 5 GW. This significant achievement which gives the Spanish firm a position of technological leader… Read more »
Goldbeck Solar continues intensified activities in the Netherlands
After the first successful project in Veendam, business continues in the Netherlands. Last year, Goldbeck Solar realized a third of Holland’s new ground mounted solar farm capacity. The reason for that was the suburban project in Veendam with its 15.5 MW, which was connected to the grid on December 31, 2017. The company from Hirschberg… Read more »
SUNNY RENAISSANCE: EUROPEAN PV MARKET GROWING
The global photovoltaics (PV) market is gathering speed: 2018 is likely to see annual PV deployment pass the 100 gigawatt (GW) mark for the first time, according to the latest analysis from GTM Research. Europe in particular is witnessing a new PV boom. In 2018, experts expect deployment to exceed 10 GW for the first… Read more »
Suitable for every climate: LUFFT launches new CHM8K cloud height sensor
he product innovation Lufft CHM8k complements the ceilometer family of the South German metrology specialist and is suitable for applications in which low-lying measurement ranges in up to eight kilometers are in focus. Application examples are security-related monitoring tasks on airports or in the offshore market, as well as in studies about the particle distribution… Read more »
Winterthur Gas & Diesel confirms Wärtsilä and CSSC Marine Service as global service providers
To extend their global service offerings, Winterthur Gas & Diesel (WinGD), recently signed agreements with Wärtsilä Services and CSSC Marine Service Co. Ltd. (CMS) as Authorized Global Service Providers. With these new agreements, valid from January 1st, 2018, both providers can now offer support for all two-stroke engine brands from Winterthur Gas & Diesel, namely… Read more »
Fronius supplies inverter for photovoltaic system to cement manufacturer in Iran
Generating solar power at 2,300 metres above sea level (Wels, 22/02/2018) Fronius Solar Energy supports solar energy plants across the world. Their varied portfolio means the solar technology specialists always have the right solution to hand – perfectly tailored to country and user-specific requirements. Fronius recently installed an inverter for the photovoltaic system of an… Read more »
SOLAREDGE TO OFFER STOREDGE WITH POWER BACKUP FOR EUROPEAN MARKETS
HERZELYA PITUACH, ISRAEL — February 22, 2018 —SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. (“SolarEdge”) (NASDAQ: SEDG), a global smart energy leader, is launching its StorEdge® Solution with power backup for European PV markets. Based on a single inverter SolarEdge’s StorEdge is a DC coupled storage solution that allows home owners to gain energy independence and stay powered even… Read more »
Senvion wins 101,2 MW EPC project from ReNew Power The Bhuwad wind energy project is the first contract in the country
Hamburg / Mumbai / New Delhi: Senvion, a leading global manufacturer of wind turbines, has been awarded a 101,2 MW project from ReNew Power – one of India’s largest clean energy companies, to deliver the Bhuwad Wind Project (part of Round 2 bidding from Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited – a company of the… Read more »
Siemens Gamesa signs a new contract for the supply of 36 MW in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• The company will install 18 of its G97-2.0 MW turbines at the Jelovaca wind farm and will maintain them for five years. Siemens Gamesa has secured a new order in Bosnia and Herzegovina from F.L. Wind, one of country’s independent power producers (IPP), for the supply of 36 MW. This is the company’s second project… Read more »
Offshore CCU Specialist Cargostore Worldwide Trading Ltd. opens container depot in Eemshaven, NL.
Cargostore Worldwide Trading Ltd have opened a container depot in Eemshaven to meet the demands of their customers in Northern Europe. Utilising DHSS yard space, the independent depot is testimony to the rapid growth the company has experienced, necessitating the expansion into Holland to supply offshore equipment efficiently. The depot enables Cargostore to manage a… Read more »
SMST gangway assists Jacket installation by Olympic Taurus
Olympic Subsea ASA has rewarded SMST a rental contract for their motion compensated gangway, including stacking modules for working on height. The Telescopic Access Bridge M-Series will be installed on board of Olympics’ Multipurpose Offshore Vessel, Olympic Taurus, to assist the Jacket installations in the East Anglia ONE Offshore windfarm. Crossing from vessel to windfarm… Read more »
Further class approval for Drone inspection of confined spaces for RIMS from KRS expands options for shipowners for shipowners
RIMS (Robotics In Maintenance Strategies) have secured a further class approval from Korean Register of Shipping (KRS) for the use of Remote Inspection Techniques (drones) during surveys of enclosed spaces. The KRS certification for the use of Remote Inspection Techniques (drones) during surveys of enclosed spaces, adds to the now highly impressive portfolio of class… Read more »
WINAICO awarded with “Top Brand PV” seal by EuPD Research.
For the first time, WINAICO is awarded with the “Top PV Brand” seal in Germany. The basis for this award is the independent installer survey conducted by the market and economic research company EuPD Research. Bonn. The module manufacturer WINAICO was able to be highlighted among other manufacturers in the course of the annual “PV… Read more »
First foundation for the offshore wind farm Kriegers Flak installed in Denmark
This weekend, the first Gravity Based Foundation for the offshore wind farm Kriegers Flak was installed in Denmark, another milestone in this project. It concerns a 8,000 tonnes GBF which was floated off the semisubmersible barge and towed to the installation location where the heavy lift vessel Rambiz in combination with an in-house designed ballast… Read more »
Nordex scores once again in Greece
Hamburg, 19 February 2018. The Nordex Group has received a contract for the construction of two neighbouring wind farms in Avlaki, Εtoloakarnania, Greece, where the manufacturer will be installing 16 wind turbines of the N117/2400 and N100/2500 series. Deliverables include the servicing of the turbines over a period of 15 years. To take care ideally… Read more »
Wood supports South Plains Wind Farm
Wood recently supported TerraForm Power with power performance testing (PPT) at South Plains I Wind Farm located near Lockney, Texas. The 200 MW site, which comprises 100 Vestas V100 wind turbine generators (WTGs), has the capacity to generate enough energy for approximately 60,000 households. Wood was appointed to undertake power performance testing as part of… Read more »
Greencoat Renewables to Acquire Lisdowney Wind Farm for €22.5 million
Dublin, London, 16 February 2018 | Greencoat Renewables PLC (“Greencoat Renewables”) the Irish renewable infrastructure company, today announces the acquisition of Lisdowney, a 9.2MW wind farm situated in County Kilkenny, for a total consideration of €22.5 million. Lisdowney wind farm consists of four Enercon E82 turbines. The wind farm was commissioned in November 2016 and… Read more »
The factory roll-out of the first nacelle for the 309 MW Rentel Offshore Wind farm is a fact.
The first complete D7 nacelle built by Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy in their new production facility in Cuxhaven, was rolled out of the manufacturing plant on the 15th of February. In this new facility, the different parts of the nacelle are assembled in separate production lines for the generator, hub and back end. They are… Read more »
ABB helps IKEA harness the sun’s energy
Next generation (Trio-50) smart inverters will provide higher flexibility and energy yields from a 1mw rooftop solar system ABB has provided the Swedish retailer IKEA with 20 of its innovative TRIO-50 solar inverters to power a rooftop solar system on its flagship store in Singapore, located in the eastern suburb of Tampines. The system is… Read more »
Innovative Ramboll wind design receives German Renewables Award
The offshore wind farm project Arkona in the German Baltic Sea has received the German Renewables Award presented by the Clusteragentur Erneuerbare Energien, based in Hamburg. The project got the Innovation Product of the Year award for a newly developed method to protect the steel foundations of offshore wind turbines from corrosion. Ramboll has developed… Read more »
Siemens Gamesa unveils its 3-year strategic plan, with the L3AD2020 program, focused on profitable growth and €2 billion of savings, designed to achieve global leadership
Today, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) presented its 2018-2020 strategic plan, designed to deliver global leadership. It sets the foundations in 2018 for sustainable and profitable growth in the years ahead. Against a backdrop of increasing competition, Siemens Gamesa expects to outperform the market on sales while maintaining strict balance-sheet control. With this target in… Read more »
acceptance of Indeotec machine at 2 key customers site Fraunhofer-ISE & KAUST
Neuchâtel, Febuary 2018 – INDEOtec SA (Switzerland) reports the successful completion of system acceptance tests for two of its customers, namely King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, and Fraunhofer ISE in Freiburg, Germany. The acceptance test milestones have been completed for both projects well in time; the comprehensive and partly… Read more »
Jan De Nul Group to install wind turbine generators in Germany
Jan De Nul Group will install 32 Wind Turbine Generators (WTG), each with a capacity of 6.33 MW, for the Offshore Wind Farm Trianel Borkum II in Germany. The new project has been awarded by Senvion GmbH and will feature wind turbines of the type Senvion 6.3M152. The project also includes the offshore mechanical completion… Read more »
Ostend (BE) | RENTEL NV reports first shipment of the components to Ostend
Today the first Wind turbine components for the Rentel wind farm have arrived on the REBO Site in Ostend. Two blade sets and six top towers are the first components that have been shipped with the Rotra Mare from Esbjerg to Ostend. In the coming weeks more components will follow from Aalborg (blades), Esbjerg (blades… Read more »
Solutions successfully performed first cable loadout for client, more to follow
Oceanteam Solutions, in cooperation with Blue Offshore, has successfully executed the first cable loadout at client’s premises and more loadouts will follow later this year. The cable was transferred from client’s cable basket to Oceanteam’s storage solution: a barge equipped with a turntable that can hold up to 5300 tonne of cable, a loading tower… Read more »
Wind farm Hohe See relies on WINDEAcare
Emden. The holistic acute – and emergency medical care concept WINDEAcare remains the leading product for the construction and operation of offshore wind farms. EnBW and the Canadian energy company Enbridge Inc. – with their new offshore wind farm Hohe See – also put their trust in the comprehensive expertise of the partners of this… Read more »
Siemens Gamesa to supply 1,386 MW to Ørsted at the world’s largest offshore wind farm, in the UK
• It marks the largest-ever offshore project in the history of Siemens Gamesa, the world leader in the segment • The company will install its SG 8.0-167 DD turbines with power boost functionality at the Hornsea Project Two offshore facility located 89 km off the east coast of England Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has… Read more »
Jack-up vessel Seafox 5 departs Damen Verolme Rotterdam ready for the next generation of wind turbines
The 151-metre, self-propelled, DP2 jack-up rig Seafox 5 has left the Damen Verolme Rotterdam (DVR) shipyard following a four-month refit in which the boom of its main crane was lengthened to prepare it for a new contract, along with a range of maintenance and other upgrade works. Seafox 5 is now equipped to undertake offshore… Read more »
Greensmith Energy storage technology selected to deliver reliable solar power in Massachusetts
Greensmith Energy, a part of the Wärtsilä technology group, was selected by Origis Energy USA to provide advanced energy storage integrated with solar photovoltaic (PV) in Sterling, Massachusetts, USA. The resultant hybrid system will allow the PV installation to better handle peak loads and provide secure, reliable electricity supply to the Municipality and State. Greensmith… Read more »
Ørsted appoints Hobson & Porter to build the world biggest O&M hub for Offshore wind in Grimsby
Construction of the UK’s largest offshore wind operations and maintenance hub is now underway. Ørsted has appointed UK construction firm Hobson & Porter as the principal contractor for a multi-million-pound extension to its offshore wind operations centre at the Royal Docks in Grimsby. The Ørsted East Coast Hub, as it will be known, will be… Read more »
ENcome ranked a top independent O&M provider by GTM Research
▪ ENcome ranked No. 1 independent service provider in Europe ▪ ENcome ranked No. 2 independent service provider globally ▪ Assets under Management approximately 1.1 GW Klagenfurt am Wörthersee (13/02/2017): The very successful business development of ENcome has now also been confirmed by top ratings from independent industry experts. On the backdrop of the ongoing… Read more »
First large-scale battery storage system in operation in the Allgäu region
ADS-TEC from Nürtingen realises the first large-scale battery for grid stabilisation in the Oberallgäu district The energy revolution has arrived in the deepest reaches of the Allgäu region: The first battery power plant with an output of more than one megawatt was recently commissioned in the remote community of Bruck in the municipality of Bad… Read more »
Rovco Crowned New Enterprise of the Year at Subsea UK Awards
Subsea services firm, Rovco was crowned the New Enterprise of the Year at the prestigious Subsea UK Awards in Aberdeen last week. Held during Subsea Expo, Europe’s largest subsea-focused exhibition and conference, the ceremony brought together more than 600 industry professionals to recognise the finest talent, leadership and contributions across the sector. Bristol-based Rovco was… Read more »
Demo Project for Suction Bucket Foundations
Within an hour, the steel cylinder of the bucket foundation had sunk down into the soil. This installation method for the foundations of offshore wind turbines is both fast and avoids pile driving noise, meaning it can also be employed for sites in regions subject to noise restrictions. The technique consists in the pumping of… Read more »
SeaRoc Group Launches Permit to Work System
SeaPlanner, leading Marine Management System, has announced the release of its new Permit to Work system, providing a fully integrated solution for managing work authorisation processes. SeaPlanner provides advanced personnel and operational planning tools for large scale projects, enabling you to plan and monitor operations, using a controlled, compliant and auditable method. The software features… Read more »