191 MW of solar power in state of Minas Gerais scheduled for completion in Q3 2017 FREMONT, CA, NOV. 7, 2016 – NEXTracker™, a Flex company, announced today it has signed a master services agreement (MSA) to deliver its award-winning solar tracker technology to Biosar, part of Aktor Construction Group, and one of the largest… Read more »
Winterthur, Switzerland, 4 November 2016 – The most recent release of the planning software Polysun has just been published by the Swiss software maker Vela Solaris. The new profitability calculation tool offers a dynamic and comprehensive analysis of the economic aspects of all building service facilities that can be simulated in Polysun. These include cogeneration… Read more »
Leading renewable energy consultancy, SgurrEnergy, provided technical due diligence for one of Jordan’s largest solar PV plants, Shams Ma’an, which was commissioned in September 2016. The official opening ceremony of this milestone project took place on October 10th in the presence of His Excellency the Prime Minister of Jordan, Hani Al-Mulki. Included in the crowd… Read more »
As company President, Conklin will oversee all Solar-Log™ sales and business in North America. He will report directly to Dr. Frank Schlichting, CEO of Solar Data Systems’ parent company, Solare Datensysteme GmbH, in Binsdorf, Germany. Conklin is a 10-year veteran in the solar industry, both in the residential and commercial sector. He is an executive… Read more »
Hamburg, 3 November 2016. The Nordex Group has received in September a new order from its regular customer Acciona Energia for the construction of a wind farm in Mexico. The wind farm “El Cortijo” will consist of 56 AW125/3000 turbines. The site is located in Tamaulipas in the north-east of Mexico, 40 km to the… Read more »
Compared with traditional SVC such as modulator, capacitor reactor and thyristor controlled reactor (TCR), SVG is the best solution in the reactive power control field at present and has unparalleled advantages. In other words, SVG is currently the most advanced dynamic reactive power compensation device all over the world. MORNSUN PV45-29D1515-15 power supply for SVG’s… Read more »
SeaRoc Group have announced they will be hosting a series of workshops for industry professionals – the first in this series will focus on developments of the company’s SeaPlanner Marine Management System under the subject of ‘Innovation in Marine Coordination’. The workshop aims to educate those responsible for managing logistics for projects offshore, focusing on… Read more »
Long-term wind resource fluctuations highlight need to factor yearly variability into crucial regulatory decisions VAISALA CORPORATION PRESS RELEASE NOVEMBER 2 2016 Analysis of wind speed trends in Germany for the years 2009-2015, conducted by Vaisala, a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement and provider of renewable energy consulting services, has revealed… Read more »
MUNICH, BERLIN, Germany, 2 November 2016 – Liberta Partners, a Munich-based Multi-Family Office, has acquired the leading provider of monitoring, control and supervision systems, skytron® energy. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. “skytron energy’s global footprint and technical track record make it a solid investment that fits well into our strategy of acquiring enterprises… Read more »
Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore inaugurates 10 x 100 kWp test center Phase 2 to follow in 2017 narrowing the field to two contenders Singapore and Sulzemoos, November 1st, 2016 – Phoenix Solar Pte Ltd, the Singapore based subsidiary of Phoenix Solar AG (ISIN DE000A0BVU93), is among the contenders included in the world’s largest… Read more »
Alencon will unveil the newest generation of its stand-alone DC-DC Optimizer, the SPOT, at conference focused on O&M Figure 1: Alencon Systems will unveil the latest version of its industry leading DC-DC optimizer, the SPOT, at the PV Operations &Maintenance USA conference in San Francisco December 6 and 7. The latest version of the SPOT… Read more »
SolarWorld AG is delivering solar modules with a capacity of 20 megawatts for a ground-mounted system in West African Senegal. The 77,280 multicrystalline solar modules will be installed in the Kahone region, about 100 kilometers from the capital Dakar, by March 2017. The contract in Senegal was acquired by the Austrian SolarWorld partner Energie Merl,… Read more »
Meyer Burger Technology Ltd (SIX Swiss Exchange MBTN) has decided to reorganize the tasks and responsibilites of the function of the Chief Operating Officer, COO, in the course of the implementation of the comprehensive structural programme, which was published on 29 September 2016. Thomas Kipfer, Chief Operating Officer and member of the Executive Board since… Read more »
Eksim Yatirim orders 37 turbines for three projects Hamburg, 1 November 2016. The Nordex Group is strengthening its position in Turkey: in September the manufacturer received three new orders from its regular customer Eksim Yatirim. Nordex will be installing a total of 37 N117/3000 turbines for Eksim as part of the extension of the “Amasya”,… Read more »
Berlin (Germany) and Austin, TX (USA), October 31, 2016 – Energy storage company Younicos has signed an agreement with strategic partner Panasonic to design and build a solar-plus-storage system at Peña Station NEXT in Denver, Colorado, which includes the operations hub for Panasonic Enterprise Solutions Company and Panasonic CityNOW. The system will make use of… Read more »
Manufacturer sells turbines with total capacity of 93.3 MW Hamburg, 28 October 2016. So far this autumn, Nordex has obtained six new orders for wind farm projects in France. Altogether, 38 turbines with a combined capacity of 93.3 MW have been sold to different customers: 17 N117/2400s, 15 N100/2500s and six N90/2500s. Nordex will provide… Read more »
Cumulus Energy Storage – which has pioneered a ground-breaking low-cost, renewable battery technology – has expanded into 800 sq ft office space at the AMP Technology Centre in Rotherham, in a deal facilitated by managing and commercial agents, Creative Space Management. The company, founded by Nick Kitchin, Darron Brackenbury and Mike Hurwitz, has had a… Read more »
Global Marine Systems Limited, with joint venture partner Huawei Marine Networks (HMN), has mentored a team of four, sixth form students to the 2016 Engineering Education Scheme (EES) National finals where they were crowned champions. The team, comprising of students from the Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School including Charlotte Buttery, Jahnina Queddeng, Alicia Trew and… Read more »
Ellzee, 27.10.2016. As of this October 2016, and in cooperation with warranty service provider COVERIS AG, the SolarMax Group is offering a manufacturer-independent warranty extension for their inverters. COVERIS Extended Warranty plus is the new function warranty that customers can conclude for SolarMax P, TP, MT and HT series string inverters. Prerequisite is that the… Read more »
Lightsource Renewable Energy (“Lightsource”), Europe’s leading solar energy company, is pleased to announce that Dr Ece Gürsoy, Chief Legal Officer, director and company secretary at Lightsource is the winner of The Legal 500 UK in-house individual of the year: Environment category for 2016. Dr Gürsoy was appointed Chief Legal Officer at Lightsource in 2011. She… Read more »
Playful Solar Park initiative in Rotterdam, Basel and Paris marks the launch of DSM campaign A group of companies are announcing the launch of the global Bright Minds Challenge to identify and help accelerate the scaling of solutions for 100% renewable energy – focusing on solar and energy storage. The challenge is initiated by DSM,… Read more »
Hefei, China / OCT 25, 2016 – Sungrow, the world’s leading PV inverter manufacturer, announced that the world’s largest PV & energy storage microgrid power plant with 13 MW of PV inverters and 7 MW of energy storage inverters, was successfully installed in Shuanghu, China, the highest region in the world located in China’s Tibet… Read more »
aleo has been named Tier 1 module manufacturer by BNEF Prenzlau, 26 October 2016 | Bloomberg New Energy Finance named aleo solar recently as Tier 1 module manufacturer. With the integration in the list of modules manufacturers, aleo is considered as “bankable”. “We are sure that this listing, together with our continued efforts on quality… Read more »
UK based company, SeaPlanner Ltd. are to launch an international tender for businesses in the South East Asia offshore wind market, interested in entering a reseller agreement for its leading marine management software solution. SeaPlanner™ is an established management and monitoring system in Europe having been selected to support 26 wind farms in UK, Germany,… Read more »
Gütenbach, October 25th, 2016. RENA Technologies GmbH has received a double-digit million EUR order for wet processing equipment from Chinese customer LERRI Solar. LERRI Solar is a fully owned subsidiary of Xi’an LONGi Silicon Materials Corp., the world’s largest manufacturer of monocrystalline silicon wafers. RENA Technologies will deliver a large number of production tools for… Read more »
Remote maintenance for photovoltaic systems: E.ON cooperates with meteocontrol Augsburg/Munich, 10/25/2016 – Operate, control and monitor: Munich-based E.ON Energie Deutschland GmbH has set up a control console designed to professionally monitor and manage photovoltaic systems. Its partner in this endeavor is meteocontrol GmbH of Augsburg, which is contributing its monitoring software VCOM virtual control room…. Read more »
LOS GATOS, Calif., October 25th, 2016 – Tigo, the Flex MLPE pioneer released the market changer Selective Deployment feature, where Tigo’s revolutionary TS4 optimizers are only placed on the needed panels, rather than on all of the array, thus dramatically cutting costs while still enabling highest energy yield. The energy benefits of the smart modules using Selective deployment… Read more »
• Direct-drive wind turbines for the German states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein • 23 units in total with outputs ranging from 3 to 3.3 megawatts • All projects to be installed by spring 2017 Direct-drive wind turbines from Siemens are gaining ground on the German market: Siemens has now received five orders for 23… Read more »
The Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo) in Cleveland, Ohio has appointed international engineering and operations support services contractor Offshore Design Engineering Limited (ODE), part of the DORIS Group located in the U.K., as the engineering representative for Icebreaker Wind, a 20.7 megawatt offshore wind project in Lake Erie, and the first freshwater offshore wind… Read more »
Global Marine Systems Limited is pleased to announce that it has succeeded in upgrading its ISO 9001 certification to the new International Quality Standard ISO 9001:2015. Demonstrating its continued commitment to being at the forefront of developments in this discipline, Global Marine is one of the first companies in the industry to achieve accreditation to… Read more »
Revolutionizing Offshore Wind Measurement Capabilities in Massachusetts Hinesburg USA, October 11th, 2016: High-fidelity, hub-height wind measurement has arrived off the south coast of Massachusetts thanks to a newly installed WINDCUBE® Vertical Profiling Lidar. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), working with AWS Truepower of Albany, New York, has installed the WINDCUBE at WHOI’s Martha’s Vineyard Coastal… Read more »
Leading solar PV inverter company Huawei is delighted to announce that developer and EPC firm, Strata Solar, have selected Huawei string inverters for use in several of their utility-scale power plant projects in the United States. Huawei became the leading inverter supplier for PV power plants worldwide in 2015, according to industry research firms IHS and GTM. Based on… Read more »
West Bromwich, West Midlands, 20 October 2016: Due to the increase in interest from the oil and gas industry in Scotland for the Tentec range of hydraulic bolt tensioners and torque wrenches, Atlas Copco Bolt Tightening Solutions announces the opening of a new office in Aberdeen. The new premises are based in Dyce and will… Read more »
Using fine wire stranded single-core conductors with double insulation, the new Flex-Sol-Evo cable from Multi-Contact has been designed for the high quality connection of PV solar arrays. The economic cable enables space to be saved through the use of wiring panels at the module level and wiring combiner boxes/inverters at the string level. Extremely rugged,… Read more »
At this year’s Offshore Energy exhibition, a leading global deck machinery specialist, ACE Winches, is pleased to announce a new 500te Linear Winch to its range of specialised deck equipment. The company will be showcasing its extensive range of products and services supplied to European clients operating within Marine, Renewables and Oil & Gas sectors…. Read more »
ABERDEEN, (Oct. 11, 2016) — Offshore accommodation and workspace solutions specialist, HB Rentals, has invested in excess of £750,000 into new product lines in response to customer demand. The company has added hazardous area workshop containers to its rental fleet which are multi-functional with the combination of standard features and fit-out options. This offers a wide… Read more »