On March 15 and 16, 2017 the “Offshoredays” organized by Spreewind will take place in Heiligendamm, Germany. During these days, speakers from renowned companies will share their experiences. Hans Gatzemeier, Managing Director of the ELA Container Offshore Gmbh will be one of these experts. With his many years of expertise in the field of accommodation… Read more »
Vaisala, a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement, has doubled production capacity at its Boulder, Colorado, U.S. operations center for the Triton Wind Profiler. Vaisala has increased capacity to meet the needs of wind farm developers and operators for quick, reliable access to accurate hub-height wind measurement data. The increase in demand for Triton… Read more »
Siemens has won a significant order from Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) in India to overhaul 18 units of RT48S & RT56 power turbines of Siemens fleet of aeroderivative gas turbines driven by Industrial AVON & Industrial RB211 gas generators along with installation and commissioning services. The turbines are operating at Mumbai High… Read more »
Kahl am Main, 03. March 2017 – SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES AG (SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES) has signed a contract for the delivery of VISTARIS vacuum sputtering systems as well as systems for wet chemical buffer layer deposition with the brand name TENUIS II with the subsidiary of a major public energy company and producer of solar modules from… Read more »
Finnish wind power producer Suomen Hyötytuuli and Bladefence have signed a 5-year Spindurance blade maintenance contract, which covers all Suomen Hyötytuuli’s onshore turbines in Finland. The fleet consists of 39 wind turbines, including Vestas 3.3 MW and Siemens 2.3 MW turbines. “The blade maintenance contract follows our service and maintenance strategy. By focusing on preventive… Read more »
Schiedam, The Netherlands – March 2, 2017 – GustoMSC released a special report entitled ‘LNG fueled Mobile offshore units’. The report describes the use of LNG for mobile offshore units, and considers the most relevant technical, operational and economic factors for the use of this fuel in such units. The maritime industry is experiencing increasingly… Read more »
NDEOtec SA wins a new order for a combined OCTOPUS II – PECVD/PVD deposition system for High-efficiency and heterojunction cell development from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia Neuchâtel, February 2017 – INDEOtec SA (Switzerland) announces another order intake released by the KAUST Solar Center (KSC) of King Abdullah University… Read more »
Shipping company Bernhard Schulte and ICBC Leasing jointly named the second wind farm service vessel for their customer SIEMENS. The godmother Dai Ling named the second wind farm service vessel of the Hamburg based shipping company Bernhard Schulte and Beijing based ICBC Leasing “WINDEA LEIBNIZ”. The German mathematician, philosopher and physicist Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz… Read more »
Zurich, Switzerland, March 1, 2017 – Battery Energy Storage System connected to main grid capable of supplying electricity to 60 households for 24 hours ABB today announced the successful commissioning of Denmark’s first urban energy storage system. The Lithion-ion based battery energy storage system (BESS) will be integrated with the local electricity grid in the… Read more »
Herzelya Pituach, Israel (March 1, 2017) – SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. (“SolarEdge”) (NASDAQ: SEDG), a global leader in PV inverters, power optimizers, and module-level monitoring services, announced today that it is rolling out its new complete residential solution throughout Europe. Combining PV inverter, storage and home automation, the complete residential solution manages and monitors solar energy… Read more »
‘Orion’ will feature an unrivalled combination of exceptionally high transport and load capacity, impressive lifting heights and green technology. The vessel will be built at COSCO in China and is set to be delivered in 2019. ‘Orion’ will be deployed by DEME’s subsidiary GeoSea for the construction of the largest offshore wind farms, to service… Read more »
The combination of power, size and new innovations make mega cutter ‘Spartacus’ a new benchmark in the dredging industry. ‘Spartacus’ will be built at Royal IHC in the Netherlands and will be delivered in the summer of 2019. With a total installed capacity of 44.180 kW ‘Spartacus’ will be the most powerful Cutter Suction Dredger… Read more »
The WIND EXPO 2017 will be held at Japan’s largest exhibition centre, Tokyo Big Sight, from 1 to 3 March. Hailo Wind Systems will be attending the WIND EXPO for the first time this year. The technology and market leader in the area of wind turbine ac- cess and servicelift systems will be exhibiting its… Read more »
Enhanced crucible performance able to deliver close to additional 2GW per year without increasing wafer production capacity Heraeus Photovoltaics, the worldwide leading supplier of metallization solutions to the PV industry, introduced HeraGlaze, a high-purity SiO2 diffusion barrier coating for enhanced crucible performance in wafer production. It is the first product of Heraeus Photovoltaics beyond metallization… Read more »
The Spanish companies Grupo Clavijo and MFV Solar, with the support of the Q-Growth Fund, have reached a merger agreement to form NCLAVE, the new name of this partnership, aimed at becoming the world leader in the design, manufacture and installation of structures and trackers for the solar photovoltaic market. NCLAVE now has more than… Read more »
A new look and intelligent functions Fronius Solar Energy, the quality leader on the global solar energy market, has recently overhauled its Fronius Solar.web online portal for photovoltaic systems. Replete with its new look, the clear and comprehensive portal allows operators to easily monitor and analyse data from their own system(s). Among the new features… Read more »
Ann Arbor, MI – February 28, 2017: Siemens is collaborating with US-based company SkySpecs to deploy automated drone technology for onshore and offshore wind turbine inspections. The goal of the collaboration is to develop a push-button inspection system that is faster, repeatable and more efficient than existing methods. Siemens is involving its Wind Power business… Read more »
Tokyo, Japan, February 27, 2017 – Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation, and Aquion Energy, the world’s leading provider of saltwater batteries and energy storage solutions, have partnered with Japan’s RE-ENERGY Co., Ltd., and EIWAT Solar Co. to supply Kyushu Electric, one of Japan’s largest and most prestigious electric power companies,… Read more »
Austin, Texas and Berlin, Germany – February 27, 2017 – Younicos has signed an agreement with Kodiak Electric Association (KEA) in Alaska to design, install and commission an upgraded 3 MW battery-based energy storage system on Kodiak Island that will replace a system that was installed by the company in 2012. The project is expected… Read more »
Rajnikanth Umakanthan to head Vaisala’s Indian subsidiary, delivering end-to-end resource risk management services for renewable energy developers, operators and investors 3TIER India, a subsidiary of global environmental and industrial measurement leader, Vaisala, has appointed a new Managing Director. Rajnikanth Umakanthan (Rajni) joins the business to lead the Bangalore-based team in the delivery of Vaisala’s platform… Read more »
RESOL has developed an economical solution for using excess current produced by PV systems – the DeltaTherm® PV immersion heater controller. This new controller can be fitted to all stores equipped with an electric immersion heater and is very easy to install, thus saving time and money. The controller reliably detects excess current and calculates… Read more »
The Cherbourg plant will have the capability to manufacture the world’s longest blade at 88.4 meters. Creation of a production hub in the European renewable energy industry LM Wind Power, a leading, global manufacturer of wind turbine blades announced today that it will open a new wind turbine blade factory dedicated to the offshore market… Read more »
Lightsource Renewable Energy, Europe’s leading solar energy company, has completed the purchase of a 1.32MWp portfolio of residential solar installations. The portfolio is comprised of 469 installations across the UK from Ecos Solar Nine in a deal valued at £2.3million. As part of the deal, Lightsource will receive the Feed-In Tariff (FIT) payments from the… Read more »
Lindsay Roberts, Senior Policy Manager at Scottish Renewables, said: “Scotland is home to approximately 25% of Europe’s offshore wind resource and we are now starting to build out projects which will harness this potential. “We’re also at the forefront of innovation in this exciting sector and projects like this one are part of a new… Read more »
With our solar-diesel and wind-diesel systems we can create 30–70 % fuel savings and equal reduction on CO2 emission depending on the solar and wind conditions. Our website (www.danvest.com) gives a very good insight in what our system can do. On our facebook page you can see all our reference projects https://www.facebook.com/pages/Danvest-references/604009246282402. Also have a… Read more »
Dounreay Trì Limited welcomed today’s decision of the Highland Council to approve its proposed demonstration floating wind farm off the Northern coast near Thurso. The Council was formally consulted on the project as part of Marine Scotland’s consideration on the planning application. Marine Scotland will now be able to complete its assessment and make a… Read more »
A landmark building that has helped to secure billions of pounds of investment and more than 800 new jobs to the East is celebrating another high growth success story as one of its high-profile tenants moves on to revive prominent redundant offices in Lowestoft. James Fisher Marine Services – one of 150 tenant companies which… Read more »
SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif., Feb. 20, 2017 – Trojan Battery Co., LLC, the world’s leading manufacturer of deep-cycle batteries, has named Phillip Taylor as senior vice president, and chief human resources (HR) officer to lead the company’s global workforce of more than 1,000 employees. Taylor brings over 30 years of experience to this position, which… Read more »
The potential of photovoltaics (PV) has not yet been exhausted. Both industry and research continue to work intensively on increasing the efficiency and reducing the costs of solar cells, the basic component of every PV power plant. Now researchers at Fraunhofer ISE have produced a multicrystalline silicon solar cell with 21.9 percent efficiency, successfully bringing… Read more »
For the second year in a row, Jinko Solar is ranked among the top module manufacturers based on recommendation levels by British installers. Therefore, Jinko Solar receives the “Top Brand PV | Modules” seal in the United Kingdom from the German market research specialist EuPD Research. Bonn. Participants of the “Global PV Installer Monitor 2016/2017… Read more »
Hamburg/Melbourne: Senvion, a leading global manufacturer of wind turbines, has signed a conditional contract with Nexif Energy for 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. Jürgen Geissinger, CEO of Senvion, said: “We are… Read more »
Moventas has been developing a new product to the Exceed technology. Exceed product platform was launched in 2014 with a 3MW+ gearbox with the best weight/nominal torque ration in the market. A new Exceed 4MW+ will now be joining the product family. The Exceed 4MW+ gearbox successfully completed long-time overload test in January at Moventas… Read more »
Berlin, February 17, 2017 – Global law firm Dentons has advised Canadian energy infrastructure company Enbridge on its investment in offshore wind farm EnBW Hohe See. Enbridge has announced that it will partner with EnBW, a German utility, to develop the 497 MW Hohe See wind farm being constructed approximately one hundred kilometers off the… Read more »
• EnBW orders 71 offshore wind turbines including foundations • 497 megawatts offshore wind power plant to be grid connected in 2019 • Site located 90 kilometers northern of German island Borkum • Grid connection via HVDC platform BorWin Gamma Siemens Wind Power will, for the first time, provide complete offshore wind power plant solutions… Read more »
33 ft Offshore Accommodation Container for more comfort ELA Container Offshore GmbH announced the development of a new offshore container type: a 10 m x 3 m wide, high-cube accommodation container with interior hallway and two cabins. The first 24 containers of this new type have already been built at the premises in Haren, Germany…. Read more »
DNV GL has concluded vendor’s technical due diligence on a portfolio of wind farms totalling around 230 MW. Independent evaluation of the portfolio highlights technical risks and potential impacts on the safe and profitable construction as well as operation of the assets. London, UK – 16 February 2017, DNV GL successfully completed its vendor’s technical… Read more »