DNV has acquired 74.3% of KEMA’s shares, creating a world-leading consulting and certification company within the cleaner energy, sustainability, power generation, transmission and distribution sectors. DNV and KEMA will form a world-leading energy consulting, testing and certification company that can drive the worldwide transition towards a safe, reliable, efficient and clean energy ecosystem. DNV KEMA… Read more »
Mumbai, India and Pforzheim/Freiburg, Germany, December 23, 2011 – Intersolar India 2011 was well received by visitors and exhibitors alike as it strengthens its position as India’s largest solar technology exhibition in 2011. A total of 264 exhibitors from 18 countries attended the exhibition at the Bombay Exhibition Centre (BEC) in Mumbai. The amount of… Read more »
Oslo: The two global certification bodies Det Norske Veritas Business Assurance and Nemko announce that they will merge certification and testing operations for the medical and EX equipment industry in the joint venture DNV Nemko Presafe. The joint venture will commence operations from January 1st 2011. “We are proud to offer a highly competitive and… Read more »
Eyebrows are often raised on hearing the declaration that the UK is a world leader. With regards to offshore wind power generation, that declaration is true. A recent industry conference, hosted by MPA-The Concrete Centre, heard how the concrete sector has the solutions and capacity to ensure that UK offshore wind generation continues to power… Read more »
A project has been established to identify energy efficiency and fuel saving initiatives for the offshore shipping industry. The partnership involves a collaboration of seven Norwegian offshore shipping companies. The Joint Industry Project is called Energy Efficient Offshore Partners, and consists of: BOA Offshore, Eidesvik Offshore, Farstad Shipping, Gulf Offshore Norge, Havila Shipping, Siem Offshore… Read more »
The ANTARIS SOLAR AS M monocrystalline modules have proven their ability to withstand extremely salty outdoor conditions in a salt spray test performed by Photovoltaik-Institut (PI) in Berlin. The test confirmed that ANTARIS SOLAR modules are particularly well-suited for installations in coastal regions with a high degree of salinity in the air and heavy rainfall…. Read more »
A 30 MW wind farm in Texas will open with 12, 2.5 MW turbines. Nordex USA Inc. announced the new order from developer WKN USA LLC, for its 30 MW Mozart Wind Farm. The 12 Nordex N100/2500 wind turbines on 80-m towers will be located about 60 miles northwest of Abilene, in an area that… Read more »
Leading international renewable energy consultancy group Natural Power has now reached a total of 14 fully certified users of the widely used WAsP software. WAsP (the Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program) is the wind energy industry’s standard software for performing wind flow modelling and analysis for wind farm energy yield assessments in non-complex flow… Read more »
The Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) has started the award process for Phase 1 of the ZÈFIR Test Station, the first offshore wind turbine platform of its kind in Spain for conducting technological and environmental research. The Zèfir Test Station is to become an international research platform for testing deep water wind turbines that… Read more »
Oerlikon Solar’s 2nd generation ThinFabTM resets the standard for low cost, high quality solar module manufacturing. The new design allows a capital expenditure (Capex) reduction of more than 20 %. The estimated price for the complete end-to-end production line is just $ 1/Wp including engineering support and performance guarantees. The production line enables customers to… Read more »
centrotherm SiTec GmbH, one of the world’s leading technology providers for polysilicon, last week celebrated the successful cooperation with its Chinese customer Shaanxi Tianhong Silicon Industrial Corporation (STSIC) in key equipment items for the first expansion step for polysilicon production. The Chinese state company, which is headquartered in the Shaanxi Province, had previously signed its… Read more »
– Innovative financing exceeds £10 million target – Britons have proved their appetite for Green Energy remains undiminished – with Ecotricity’s innovative ecobond two bypassing the success of ecobond one.Britain’s leading green energy company was seeking £10 million of funding from customers and the public to help accelerate the building of new Green Energy projects… Read more »
CG, part of the US$ 4bn Avantha Group and global electrical solution provider, is part of the consortium of four companies that has bagged a prestigious turnkey contract from Amrumbank West GmbH (AWG) for its German wind farm project. Amrumbank West GmbH (AWG) is a 100% subsidiary of E.ON Climate & Renewables Central Europe GmbH…. Read more »
The goal of this campaign is to turn the users’ solar energy votes into solar PV supplies donated by PROINSO to PV solidarity projects in underprivileged areas. SOLAR ENERGY SOLIDARITY is a social action to be available until January 12 on PROINSO’s Facebook pages in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, the United States… Read more »
The countdown for the 27th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (27th EU PVSEC) has begun: The 27th EU PVSEC will host the global PV community at the Messe Frankfurt (Germany) fairgrounds, from 24 to 28 September 2012. The five-day Conference runs from 24 to 28 September 2012, and the four-day Exhibition shall be… Read more »
The Axio Vert.A1 is an inverted microscope from Carl Zeiss with extensive performance capabilities. For the first time, a compact cell culture microscope combines all standard contrasting techniques in a single stand. In transmitted light, the Axio Vert.A1 offers brightfield, phase contrast, polarization contrast, PlasDIC, VAREL and improved Hoffmann modulation contrast (iHMC). The microscope is… Read more »
– Solarexpo, one of the world’s biggest solar industry events, today presents the focus topics and special projects for the 13th edition of its the international exhibition and conference on renewable energy and distributed generation, to be held at the Verona Exhibition Centre, Italy, on 9-11 May 2012. Solarexpo is Italy’s most important event for… Read more »
Wagner Solar UK Ltd, the UK branch of German solar power and solar heating supplier, system integrator and manufacturer Wagner & Co Solar Technology; appoints Jan Stasik as UK Technical Manager. Stasik will be responsible for managing the Solar PV and Solar Thermal technical division whilst also leading the training programme at the company’s award… Read more »
A new microscope class with a bright future. With the Axio Zoom.V16, Carl Zeiss is defining a new instrument class in microscopy. For the first time, zoom microscopes are now combining typical benefits of stereomicroscopes such as zoom optics and long working distances with the higher resolutions of traditional light microscopes. In comparable image fields,… Read more »
More than twenty UK wind farm sites adopt Natural Power’s ForeSiteTM wind forecasting service for energy trading and grid notification purposes In the last six months more than twenty wind farms in the UK have moved to leading renewable energy consultancy group, Natural Power, to provide their wind farm production forecasting service, ForeSite for energy… Read more »
BTU International, Inc., a leading supplier of advanced thermal processing equipment to the alternative energy and electronics manufacturing markets, announces that its TRITANTM HV90 dual-lane metallization firing system exceeds industry standards for wafer breakage. The three-belt, three-speed system boasts a yield better than 99.99%, exceeding the industry standard for metallization firing. “The HV90’s three-belt, TriSpeedTM… Read more »
Evance R9000 turbine performs perfectly despite peak gusts of 138mph – confirms small wind’s ability to deliver in the most extreme conditions Last week’s violent Atlantic storm brought extremely high winds to the West and North of Scotland, with the Met Office recording maximum wind gusts of 165mph on Cairngorm Summit and 145mph at Aonach… Read more »
In publishing the 2010 Sustainability Report, CENTROTEC Sustainable AG has carried out a first official analysis of its own carbon footprint and of other sustainability-related data such as the consumption of resources, health and safety at work, and aspects of social responsibility. This report was preceded by a process of collecting non-financial data that is… Read more »
Amrumbank West project with installed capacity of 288 megawatts to go online in 2015 Siemens Energy has received another large order to build an offshore wind power plant in Germany. For the Amrumbank West project in the North Sea, the company is supplying 80 wind turbines, each with an output of 3.6 megawatts (MW) and… Read more »
Industry professionals are invited to submit technical presentations for the first Solar Engineering & Manufacturing Association (SEMA) and Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA) Solar Engineering and Reliability Conference, scheduled to take place March 21-23, 2012 in San Jose, CA. Presentations should be original, unpublished and noncommercial in nature, and address experiments, new techniques, processes and… Read more »
Carl Zeiss Group continues to invest in technology, infrastructure and internationalization– Employees benefit from company’s success– Vision Care business group fully consolidated– Well positioned against background of global economic uncertainty Carl Zeiss ended fiscal year 2010/11 (reporting date: 30 September 2011) with a clear increase in revenue and earnings over the prior year: with a… Read more »
Intersolar China, China’s international exhibition for the solar industry, drew to a close on Friday, December 9, 2011. In total, 130 exhibitors from 13 countries attended the inaugural exhibition, which took place at the China National Convention Center in Beijing. The organizers welcomed about 4,500 visitors from all over the world. The Intersolar China Conference,… Read more »
Following press rumors dated Sunday, December 11, 2011 and Monday, December 12, 2011 and public statements dated Sunday, December 11, 2011 concerning the AREVA group and in light of the Supervisory Board meeting to be held today, the group has requested that EuronextParis SA suspends the listing of its stock (code ISIN: FR0011027143). This initiative… Read more »
On the day the solar feed-in-tarrif is cut, threatening thousands of British jobs: Robert Goss, MD of Conergy in the UK: “Coming before the consultation is complete, the feed-in-tariff cuts looks like a pre-emptive strike by the government. They should certainly be thinking about how they can bridge the gap for solar between now and… Read more »
The Global Wind Energy Council welcomed the agreement reached at COP 17 in Durban yesterday, but warned that both the level of ambition and the speed of the negotiations needed to increase dramatically to meet the challenge of global climate change. “Yesterday’s agreement was a victory for multilateralism and the climate process”, said GWEC Secretary… Read more »
DIAB, one of the world leading producers of structural core materials, further expands their portfolio of finishing offerings. Finishing of core materials is usually done to facilitate formability or process ability through machining of the core material. The new offerings GST and ODC enables users of structural core materials to further reduce weight and cost… Read more »
BTU International, Inc., a leading supplier of advanced thermal processing equipment to the alternative energy and electronics manufacturing markets, announces that its TRITANTM HV90 dual-lane metallization firing system has successfully completed a marathon test, producing in excess of 60 million cells. “Customers want to switch to dual-lane metallization processing to achieve in excess of 35… Read more »
Campbell Scientific Inc. (CSI), with more than 35 years of world-class measurement equipment experience, has today announced the selection of wind lidar system ZephIR 300 as the company’s remote sensing solution for providing the US wind energy market with accurate wind data across all stages of a wind farm development project. ZephIR 300, provided by… Read more »
aleo solar AG has supplied modules for a 1 megawatt roof-integrated photovoltaic system in Aveyron (France, department 12) – the largest Solrif project by aleo to date. The modules, which are framed with custom aluminium profiles, are ideal for roof-integrated solar installations and replace traditional roofing materials.An annual production of 1 gigawatt hours is expected,… Read more »
NGenTec has announced the completion of its blue-chip management team as it continues to make progress towards its goal of becoming a major player in the fast-developing offshore wind sector. The latest key appointment at the Edinburgh-based company – which designs and supplies low, medium speed and direct drive permanent magnet generators – is that… Read more »
• Qatar Solar Technologies (QSTec) Wins Best Joint Venture Award (Middle East)• QSTec is the Middle East’s leading Solar Joint Venture Company London, United Kingdom – Monday, December 12, 2011: Qatar Solar Technologies (QSTec) today announced that it had won The New Economy Magazine’s Clean Tech & New Energy Award for Best Joint Venture, Africa/… Read more »