10 July 2018 – Jan De Nul Group signs contract for constructing Northwester 2, the seventh wind farm off the Belgian coast, entering for the third time into a partnership with wind farm developer Parkwind, a branch establishment of Colruyt. Jan De Nul will be responsible for the design, construction and installation of 23 foundations,… Read more »
The UK’s first ever National Infrastructure Assessment was published today (10 July) by The National Infrastructure Commission. It urges the UK Government to continue to provide support for onshore wind, solar and energy efficiency. Responding, Fabrice Leveque, Senior Policy Manager at Scottish Renewables, said: “Onshore wind is the cheapest form of new electricity generation so it’s no… Read more »
M2 Subsea, the global independent provider of ROV services, has secured contracts worth more than £10 million over the past six months. The company, which has bases in Aberdeen, UK and Houston, Texas, has successfully conducted more than ten projects across the oil and gas and renewable markets. M2 Subsea’s extensive fleet of ROVs have… Read more »
Wind farm in Brazil comprises 191 turbines Hamburg, 10 July 2018. In the second quarter of 2018, the Nordex Group gained the largest single contract in its history: it will supply and install turbines for the Brazilian wind farm “Lagoa dos Ventos” with a capacity of around 595 megawatts for Enel Green Power. The project… Read more »
Alpha Offshore Service A/S has been awarded a contract with NoordzeeWind, a Joint Venture between utility company Nuon and Shell, for blade repair on the Offshore Windfarm Egmond aan Zee (OWEZ). The first large windfarm built in the Dutch sector of the North Sea, OWEZ consists of 36 3MW turbines and sits approximately six miles… Read more »
‘- Danish Project developers SolarFuture and Solarpark DK cooperate with Øresundsbro Konsortiet to power the most important transport link between Denmark and Sweden using clean energy – 864 Q.PEAK BLK-G4.1 solar modules from Hanwha Q CELLS help to minimize the carbon footprint of the Øresund bridge and tunnel – High efficiency and best-in-class warranty terms… Read more »
Siemens will supply 102 SF6-free, gas-insulated 8VM1 high-voltage switchgear (GIS) to Siemens Gamesa by the middle of next year. The switchgear will protect each wind turbine individually against overloads and short-circuits and make it possible to supply electricity reliably and without interruption. Developed for wind farms, the 8VM1 from the blue GIS portfolio operates with… Read more »
Aberdeen 5th July 2018 – ROVOP Limited, (“Rovop”) an independent operator of underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), has marked a major business achievement after reporting record revenues and employee numbers for the company. ROVOP has also reported its best ever EBITDA (Earnings before Interest, Taxes Depreciation and Amortisation). ROVOP Limited, the UK trading business of… Read more »
Only five years after the launch of the X-DF engine, WinGD is pleased to announce they have secured an order for their 100th X-DF engine. The award-winning technology developed by WinGD has demonstrated, on tests and engines currently in operation, that it offers stable combustion, inherently low NOx and greenhouse gas emissions and high overall… Read more »
NKT has been awarded a contract by Ørsted of over EUR 145m (approx. DKK 1.08bn) to supply more than 190 kilometres of 220 kV high-voltage AC XLPE offshore export cable system for the Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm in the UK. The wind farm is to be the world’s largest with a capacity of 1.4… Read more »
The German Clean Tech Institute (DCTI) honours the largest, most innovative and outstanding PV projects with the Global Leading RES Award. Ingeteam, a global inverter developer and manufacturer, has installed a 103 MWp solar park in Jordan, qualifying for the Largest Project category. At the fair “The smarter E” in Munich, Markus A.W. Hoehner and… Read more »
Spain, July 4, 2018. Ingeteam, an independent global supplier of electrical conversion and turbine control equipment, announced today that it just completed the training program designed to deploy the new APQP4Wind quality processes standards across the industry. Ingeteam, as an excellence-driven converter manufacturer, voluntarily sought compliance with the demanding requirements and welcomes the quality standardization… Read more »
United Kingdom (3 July 2018): PROINSO, a global leader in the solar energy market has supplied a 28 MWp utility scale project in Bangladesh, the first of its kind in the country. PROINSO UK has been working in partnership with Joules Power Limited (JPL) on a 28 MWp utility scale project, utilising an innovative financing… Read more »
Huawei participated the 2018 Intersolar Europe, a world’s leading solar energy exhibition, from June 20 to 22 in Munich, Germany. Under the theme “Roads to a digital PV world,” it displayed new products, technologies, platforms, and a new ecosystem, in an aim to build a digital PV world together with partners. During the exhibition, Huawei… Read more »
Munich/Pforzheim, July 2, 2018 — With 1,177 exhibitors, 86,000 square meters of exhibition space and around 47,000 visitors from 155 countries, Intersolar Europe is celebrating another successful year along with its parallel events. 2018 marked the first year in which the world’s leading exhibition for the solar industry was held as one of the core… Read more »
Recently, another utility scale PV project in Argentina started construction. This project was said to be so far the biggest PV plant in this country. It is located at Cauchari of Jujuy Province with an overall size of 300MW and adopts massively the global advanced smart PV solutions with Huawei string inverters. Cauchari is a… Read more »
EOWDC turbine exports power to National Grid as commissioning continues The ground-breaking European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) generated power for the first time yesterday (Sunday, July 1). Clean power from the pioneering offshore wind farm, developed by Swedish energy group Vattenfall, is being successfully exported to the National Grid from the first of the… Read more »
Octopus, the largest commercial solar player in Europe, today announced its expansion into the Australian market with the opening of an office in Melbourne. The move builds on Octopus’ track record in Europe, where it has attracted significant retail and institutional funds since the company entered the renewables market in 2010. Since then, Octopus has… Read more »
InnoEnergy, Europe’s sustainable energy engine supported by the EIT, has partnered with five significant Swedish energy companies to launch Power2U, its new venture to design and operate local energy systems. The partners – Öresundskraft, Jämtkraft, Tekniska Verken, Umeå Energi and Jönköping Energi – and InnoEnergy will jointly invest 60 million SEK. Based on an innovation… Read more »
Alfa Laval will once again have a strong presence at SMM, the world’s most prominent maritime exhibition. As the company enters its second century of marine service, the focus will continue to be on lifetime vessel performance – achieved through equipment, cooperation and services in applications throughout the ship. Over the course of more than… Read more »
Jan De Nul Group completes Trianel Windpark Borkum II and Borkum Riffgrund II export cable installation projects Jan De Nul Group successfully completed the export cable installation works in the German North Sea in order to connect the offshore wind farms Trianel Windpark Borkum II, developed by Trianel, and Borkum Riffgrund II, developed by Ørsted,… Read more »
As part of a recent UK investment program, Sulzer has built and equipped a dedicated in-house test and development laboratory for high voltage coils. Other aspects of the program include upgrading key items of manufacturing equipment at the company’s Birmingham based Center of Excellence for coil design, manufacture and supply. These latest developments will enable… Read more »
Hamburg, 29 June 2018. The Nordex Group is supplying ABO Wind, an international project developer, with two N149/4.0-4.5 turbines, each with a nominal output of 4.5 MW, for the “Wennerstorf II” wind farm. Less than eleven months have passed since the launch of this powerful turbine type and now building permission has been granted for the… Read more »
Portfolio Includes New Power Classes, Safety Features and O&M Support ROCKLIN, Calif., June 28, 2018 — Today SMA America, which was recently ranked the top commercial inverter supplier in the U.S. by GTM Research, announced new comprehensive commercial solutions now available for ordering. “SMA continues to see significant growth in the commercial solar market,” said… Read more »
Following an EU tender against international competition, a consortium of SeaRenergy and N-Sea has been awarded a project by TenneT covering modification works to the jacket structure of the HVDC platform Dolwin alpha, in the German Exclusive Economic Zone of the North Sea. The project will see Hamburg-based lead partner SeaRenergy provide engineering and design… Read more »
With ABB technology Lefdal Mine Datacenter plans to become Europe’s biggest, with the smallest environmental footprint. There was a time when the mineral olivine used to be excavated for industrial purposes, like making steel. Now, that steel is coming back underground to house a data center. Lefdal in Norway plans to become Europe’s largest and… Read more »
NKT has won the turnkey order of two high-voltage cable systems ensuring power availability and transmission security in the regions of Hedmark and Oppland in Norway. NKT has been awarded the turnkey delivery of two 145 kV AC (alternating current) extruded cable system sets for the Mjøsa Project in the regions Hedmark and Oppland located… Read more »
A damaged main engine cylinder casing has now been returned to service in Bulgaria, after a repair operation lasting just seven days, saving almost eight months of off-hire time. The shipowners, faced with an eight-month replacement estimate for the engine, called in local Metalock engineers who worked to perform a full repair. The entire operation… Read more »
Responding, Fabrice Leveque, Senior Policy Manager at Scottish Renewables, said: “This is a stark warning from the independent advisory body that the UK Government is unnecessarily increasing the cost of tackling climate change by preventing the cheapest technologies, like onshore wind and solar, from competing in the electricity market. “Enabling parts of the UK, and… Read more »
To further support current and potential customers, ALL NRG will open a new office in Vlissingen, Holland, widening the company’s international presence. Increasingly, Vlissingen is attracting some of the major players in the wind industry. Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Orsted, and MHI Vestas are already established in the Dutch harbor city. For ALL NRG A/S,… Read more »
1 megawatt (MW) Batwind system designed by Younicos will dynamically integrate power from the Equinor’s 30 MW Hywind floating wind farm off the coast of Scotland Aggreko provided power during the construction of both the wind farm and battery Batwind marks the first joint project since Aggreko acquired Younicos Peterhead (Scotland) and Berlin, 27 June… Read more »
Kahl am Main, 27 June 2018 – SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES AG (SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES) has signed a new contract for the development of the next generation of manufacturing equipment with its long-standing customer Avancis, Germany, a wholly owned subsidiary of China National Building Materials (CNBM). SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES has been working with Avancis since 2008 on the development… Read more »
Straßkirchen – 26 June 2018: At this year Intersolar Europe in Munich awards were handed over to the top innovations of 2018 in Solar. Krinner Solar was awarded for its “CAS² computer-aided solar structure”. Krinner Solar, Germany, got the award for a new installation process for PV systems using integrated hardware and software tools for… Read more »
Pitching sessions from more than 150 start-ups, leading energy experts, live product demonstrations and much more Eindhoven, The Netherlands – 26 June 2018. InnoEnergy, Europe’s largest sustainable energy innovation engine, will host the sixth edition of “The Business Booster” (TBB), Europe´s catalyst for clean energy innovations. This year´s event, taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark, on… Read more »
(Wels, 26/06/2018) On a new 512 m² stand, Fronius presented solutions for the intelligent integration of the electricity, mobility and heating energy sectors at Intersolar in Munich (Germany). Numerous guests from around the world visited the Austrian energy solutions specialist to find out more the latest solutions, future topics of interest and research programmes concerning… Read more »
This year’s POWER-GEN Africa event will see a wide range of conferences, discussions and exhibitions from leading experts in the world of power generation and its delivery to end users. As a leading independent repair specialist and pump manufacturer, Sulzer will be highlighting the innovative solutions and specialist services on offer to operators of gas… Read more »