The production capacity of the plant located on La Réunion island in the Indian Ocean will equal the average consumption of 13,500 people. 15th January 2014. Ingeteam, global leader in power electronics and electrical engineering, in consortium with SAFT, the world’s leading battery manufacturer, and Corex Solar, have signed a multi-million euro contract for supplying… Read more »
Added focus on application and policy topicsAbstracts for conference contributions to be submitted until 28 February 2014 Munich, 16 January 2014 – While Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Energy is becoming a major electricity source on a global level, the 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC 2014) further extends its focus to application-… Read more »
Applied’s Fine Line Double Printing(TM) enables a 0.2 percent cell efficiency gain for CECEP to meet the Chinese government requirement to qualify for capacity expansion Production proven upgrade path to double printing accelerates CECEP’s roadmap to high efficiency Shanghai, January 15, 2014 – Applied Materials, Inc. announced today that CECEP Solar Energy Technology Co., Ltd.,… Read more »
Dutch company Offshore Wind Services B.V. (OWS), which is a specialist in providing crew transfer vessels to the offshore wind industry, is the first to order the next generation Damen Twin Axe Fast Crew Supplier 2610. With the contract signed end-December 2013, the construction of the new vessel began immediately and is set to be… Read more »
Sales up 9.4% to CHF 5.14 billion Growth in all regions Sales 17.2% higher in emerging markets Bolstered by a late winter, Sika AG’s sales picked up momentum in the 4th quarter of 2013. Total sales grew 9.4% in local currencies in the 2013 financial year. Adjusted for exchange rates, sales were 6.5%… Read more »
meteodyn WT RG provides with a wind resource grid file (.wrg file) intended for your wind farm design tool.meteodyn WT RG is based on the MIGAL structured solver, the unique Fully Coupled Multi-Grid solver of the wind energy market. Specially designed to solve Navier-Stokes equations in complex terrains, its performance and accuracy are very famous… Read more »
Investor provides positive signals with the mechanical engineering company The plant manufacturer Robert Buerkle GmbH announces the arrival of the private equity company Nimbus based in Zeist, the Netherlands. The investor with an interest in long-term investments has acquired a stake with a significant capital increase and wants to actively foster the further development of… Read more »
WINDFORCE Baltic Sea – 5/6 February 2014 in Gdansk/Poland2 days – 8 theme sessions – 30 speakers – 1 dinner The programme for WINDFORCE Baltic Sea is impressive. In two days, more than 100 conference participants will get a comprehensive view of issues related to renewable energy production in the Baltic Sea. Eight theme sessions… Read more »
Energy lawyers at national firm Bond Dickinson have advised long-standing client RES, one of the world’s leading renewable energy developers, on a £28.3 million financing deal for two onshore wind farms. The deal, agreed with international projects and export finance bank KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH, takes the form of 15-year term loans funding the Tallentire Hill… Read more »
Availon announced today that it has won a 124 MW maintenance contract for two Italian wind farms from Alpiq Holding Ltd., the Swiss energy group that owns and operates the two farms. The full service maintenance contract runs for a 10 year period, and covers 62 Gamesa wind turbines. Both wind farms are located in… Read more »
Tekmar Energy has marked a hat trick of contract wins with leading international EPC contractor Van Oord Offshore Wind Projects BV after being awarded work on the Eneco Luchterduinen offshore wind farm development in Holland. The contract reinforces Tekmar´s market-leading track record in delivering bespoke cable protections systems. Tekmar has been involved in more than… Read more »
The German wind farm developer and operator wpd has won the Elektrizitätswerk der Stadt Zürich (ewz) as further partner for the Butendiek offshore wind farm. The parties today announced that the Swiss company has acquired a share of the wpd project in the German North Sea. The other investors – besides wpd – are Marguerite… Read more »
Horizon Survey Company (Horizon) and Pelydryn Ltd (Pelydryn) are pleased to announce that with effect from 1st December 2013 Horizon have acquired a controlling interest in Pelydryn. It is planned that the two companies will retain their individual identities and continue to operate independently. Where beneficial, Horizon and Pelydryn may combine services to provide our… Read more »
The Met Office has introduced new functions to its renewable energy weather alert system, VisualEyesTM, vastly improving accuracy and the ability to provide a more up to date forecast picture. The enhancements are designed to offer the user more weather parameters and a greater choice of simplified display and labelling options providing an improved user… Read more »
• Third major energy project for Siemens from the US within one week• Pioneering Cape Wind project to be the first utility-scale offshore wind farm located in the US Siemens and Cape Wind have signed a major contract for the construction of the United States´ first utility-scale offshore wind farm. Once the contract becomes effective… Read more »
DEME’s marine engineering specialist GeoSea has been awarded major offshore wind energy contracts. GeoSea secured a new EPCI contract for the design, supply and installation of the foundations and another contract for the installation of 15 wind turbines for the Kentish Flats Extension Offshore Wind Farm from Vattenfall, one of the largest operators of offshore… Read more »
Cites Aligned Activities with Future Parent Company On the heels of the recent announcement regarding ASM Pacific Technology’s (ASMPT) intention to acquire the DEK and DEK Solar businesses, both companies are already working to expand opportunities and view the photovoltaic (PV) market as an area of unlimited potential. While there are obvious synergies between ASMPT’s… Read more »
Meyer Burger awarded major strategic contract of about CHF 40 million for industrial diamond wire-based cutting systems and announces estimate for results fiscal year 2013 Meyer Burger has successfully concluded a contract with a new customer for the delivery of industrial diamond wire cutting systems and innovative diamond wire material for slicing and cutting applications… Read more »
The Department of Energy in South Africa recently announced seven successful wind farm projects following the third bid round of the Renewable Energy IPP Procurement Programme (REIPPPP). These projects were awarded preferred bidder status and represent a total capacity of 787 MW. DNV GL is pleased to reveal that it is acting as the lenders’… Read more »
By organizing conferences all over the world, Intersolar provides companies with new ways of accessing up-and-coming growth markets Munich, December 18, 2013 – In addition to the existing Intersolar exhibitions and conferences taking place in Europe, the USA, India, China and South America, Intersolar is launching its new global conference program Intersolar Summits. The program… Read more »
First Wind, an independent U.S.-based renewable energy company, has purchased a Wind Iris Lidar to optimize the performance of its wind turbines. The decision resulted from a successful field trial that used data from the nacelle-mounted Lidar to correct yaw error and increase total energy production. First Wind wanted to improve the yaw alignment of… Read more »
• The company has built a 3.5 MWp PV installation on the rooftop of Canal Logistics • This plant will produce the equivalent energy to supply the average consumption of 920 households • Martifer Solar has already installed more than 140 PV projects in Belgium Martifer Solar, a subsidiary of Martifer SGPS, has completed the… Read more »
The site of today’s Lauchhammer Solarpark has a long industrial tradition and accommodated numerous industrial enterprises over the years. Initial situation The site of today’s Lauchhammer Solarpark has a long industrial tradition and accomodated numerous industrial enterprises over the years. It began in 1914 with a briquette plant, followed in 1917 by a steel mill…. Read more »
Meyer Burger concludes a strategically important contract with a leading Asian cell manufacturer for the supply of coating systems for its first heterojunction line in the market. The order volume is CHF 14 million. Meyer Burger has successfully concluded a strategically important contract with a leading cell manufacturer in Asia for the supply of HELiAPECVD… Read more »
With the newly created position of Chief Sales Officer, Meyer Burger Technology AG is strengthening the operational management of the group and has nominated Michael Escher to become CSO of the company with effect from 1 May 2014. Meyer Burger Technology Ltd (SIX Swiss Exchange: MBTN) announced today that the Group Executive Board is being… Read more »
Collects Innovation Award during Recent China PV Innovation Technology Conference Adding to a long list of award wins – three of which have occurred this year – DEK Solar was honored with the Photovoltaic Equipment Innovation Award at last week’s China International Photovoltaic (PV) Industry Innovation Technology Conference in Beijing. Winning for its Apollo and… Read more »
• Siemens to supply 448 wind turbines with a total capacity of 1,050 megawatts and provide service for several years • The customer, MidAmerican Energy, will equip five wind power projects in the U.S. state of Iowa with Siemens wind turbines • Clean energy for nearly 320,000 American households Siemens has received an order from… Read more »
The solar photovoltaic industry is predicted to expand from 102 GW installed capacity in 2012 to 200 GW in 2016, which will require massive growth in manufacturing. However, the module producers have been shaken up by oversupply in the marketplace and variability in governmental policies on renewable energy and many suffered financial meltdown or withdrew… Read more »
Roth & Rau B.V. in Eindhoven, a member of the Meyer Burger Group, has successfully concluded a contract to supply inkjet printers for printing mono crystalline high performance solar cells. With the PiXDRO ink jet printing technology from Roth & Rau B.V. Meyer Burger is the only company worldwide offering a printing process suitable for… Read more »
Availon announced today that it won a full maintenance contract for 7 Vestas® wind turbines. The German multi-brand service provider is taking over the full maintenance of seven out of a total of 12 Vestas® V80 turbines in the Hakenstedt wind farm. The wind farm is located 30 kilometres west of Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. “The… Read more »
– Orders for 103 turbines totaling over 266 MW capacity– Turbines will go to 24 community wind farm projects in Schleswig-Holstein Pune/Hamburg: REpower Systems SE, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Suzlon Group – the world’s fifth-largest* manufacturer of wind turbines, has signed contracts to deliver 103 wind turbines with a total capacity of over… Read more »
Alsdorf/Germany, December 11th, 2013 – 4JET Technologies GmbH expands its sales activities for micro machining applications in Asia.4JET has appointed Mr. Klaus Schiffer as Director Sales for applications in optoelectronics and glass processing. Mr. Schiffer will especially be responsible for sales in the key markets Display Technology, Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics. He will also coordinate… Read more »
Hybrid electric SWATH design advances following feasibility study Brightlingsea, 10th December 2013 – A feasibility study around a hybrid powertrain SWATH, commissioned this year by CTruk, has given the company further impetus in its ongoing development of a hybrid electric offshore wind support vessel design. The study was based on the CTruk CWhisper SWATH, a… Read more »
The Swiss inverter manufacturer Sputnik Engineering (SolarMax) is carrying out five large-scale photovoltaics projects in the London area in cooperation with partner companies. For the projects, a total of 127 SolarMax 360TS-SV central inverters will be installed in 65 SolarMax TS-SV Compact Stations. “We are delighted that we have been commissioned with the delivery of… Read more »
Segen partners with PV manufacturer, Phono Solar Aldershot, UK, 2013: Segen, the UK’s leading value added distributor of renewable technologies, has today announced a new partnership withPhono Solar, adding a new range of quality and cost-effective PV panels to its comprehensive portfolio. Segen will begin the new partnership by stocking the Phono Solar ‘Onyx’ 250W… Read more »
London, December 9th 2013 – Alan Chivers, founder and CEO of renewable energy consulting firm PMSS has been appointed as Chairman of the company, and will, over the coming month’s handover certain day-to-day responsibilities for the TÜV SÜD renewable energy division to Scott Craig, in the role of Divisional Director. In his new position as… Read more »