Hefei, China / July 12, 2016 – Sungrow, the world’s largest PV inverter manufacturer, announces the official start of operations of Sungrow-Samsung SDI Energy Storage Power Supply Co.,Ltd at a ceremony in Hefei, China. The $170 million (USD) joint venture between Sungrow and Samsung is able to provide complete Energy Storage System (ESS) solutions incorporating… Read more »
The Spanish company Grupo Clavijo will once again be attending the Solar Power International trade show (from 12 to 15 September) in La Vegas (NV, USA), with the latest generation of its advanced single-axis trackers. After more than 12 years of work by its entire engineering and R&D team, aimed at developing leading single-axis technology,… Read more »
Münster/Berlin/Augsburg, 07/12/2016 – Key elements of optimal operation of solar energy systems include the technical monitoring of these systems as well as the control and improvement of on-site energy consumption and grid feed-in management. To provide these services to system operators, Milk the Sun, the world’s largest open online marketplace for photovoltaic systems in operation,… Read more »
Augsburg, July 11, 2016 – Hazy skies and dusty cars: Many people are well acquainted with the impact of the Saharan dust that travels to Europe by air. The impact of this dust – as haze in the atmosphere and as a residue on solar panels – on the performance of photovoltaic (PV) systems is… Read more »
• FWT to supply 20 x FWT 2500 wind turbines to Kalmykia wind energy project with a nominal capacity of 2.55 MW• Delivery scheduled to start by end of 2016, start of commercial operation scheduled for 2017• Corporate Energies company, Energy Competence Centre (ECC), assigned as owner’s engineer Berlin, 05 July 2016. Recently ALTEN Ltd…. Read more »
July 8, 2016, WESTFIELD, NJ – ACL is proud to announce that it officially took delivery of the third new vessel in the G4 fleet, ATLANTIC SEA on June 30, 2016. The ATLANTIC SEA sailed from China on July 4th and will take its place in the Company’s transatlantic schedule in early August. The remaining… Read more »
Hefei, China / July 8, 2016 – Sungrow, the world’s largest PV inverter manufacturer, announces the connection, of a 50MW, 1500 volt, power plant to the grid. The power plant has been developed by Sungrow in Datong, Shangxi Province, China, and is currently the largest 1500 volt solar power plant in China. The plant uses… Read more »
CP Automation offers innovative solar EMC filters Maintenance and repair specialist CP Automation now distributes and fits Roxburgh EMC’s innovative high voltage, high performance three-phase EMC filter range. The KMF3420V is specifically designed for use with high kW inverters used in photovoltaic solar power applications. Roxburgh’s distributor of the year for 2015, CP Automation, can… Read more »
Houston, US; July 11 2016: Global Maritime Consultancy & Engineering, a provider of marine warranty, dynamic positioning and engineering services to the offshore sector, has signed a contract with leading offshore wind developer Deepwater Wind to provide marine warranty services for the Block Island Wind Farm, America’s first offshore wind farm. Services that will be… Read more »
Less than a month after the official launch of Ideol’s first demonstrator (Floatgen), Hitachi Zosen and Ideol have signed a contract launching the construction phase of their 2 floating offshore wind turbines. This second contract follows the achievement of the design & engineering phase which started a year ago. These 2 floaters will be each… Read more »
The 100MW Kathu Solar Park project, located in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, has achieved financial close. Mott MacDonald is lenders’ technical advisor1 on the scheme, which achieved preferred bidder status in Round 3.5 of the Government of South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement (REIPPP) programme. Kathu Solar Park is a… Read more »
Barcelona, Spain (8 July 2016), DNV GL, the world largest resource of independent energy experts has acquired GreenPowerMonitor, a leading provider of solar monitoring, control and asset management systems. GreenPowerMonitor, established in 2008 and headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, employs 56 solar software experts who serve over 200 customers globally. Through the acquisition GreenPowerMonitor will gain… Read more »
BREDA (NL) | The National Business Success Award Institute has selected Tideway BV (a subsidiary of the Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group, DEME) as Best Performing Employer 2016 in the marine engineering sector. Thanks to Tideway’s strong positioning, this DEME subsidiary remains a leader in its market. The Nominations Committee was impressed by… Read more »
Maersk Training is the first Global Wind Organisation certified training centre in the world to deliver the new Basic Maintenance Training (BMT) Following the release of the Basic Maintenance Training Standard by the Global Wind Organisation (GWO) on 4 July 2016, DNV-GL has certified Maersk Training in Esbjerg as the first organisation to conduct all… Read more »
Kahl am Main, July 08, 2016 – SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES has received orders from the largest Russian photovoltaics manufacturer, Hevel LLC (Hevel), for the delivery of production machines for high-performance solar cells (heterojunction). The signed contracts include processing equipment of the SILEX II type for the wet-chemical treatment of heterojunction solar cells as well as additional… Read more »
New PV design software: meteodyn PV Nantes, July the 8th, 2015 – Meteodyn, world expert in wind resource assessment and wind farm design, has developed a solar PV software. meteodyn PV is now available to all solar plants developers, operators, engineers and consultants. This professional software is dedicated to large scale solar projects. Meteodyn PV… Read more »
Germany’s parliament approved a plan to reform the country’s renewable energy law by ending feed-in tariffs in favour of competitive auctions and putting clear volumes on wind energy deployment. Lawmakers have agreed to cap the annual auctions for onshore wind at 2.8GW and offer fluctuating tenders for offshore wind in order to control renewables installations… Read more »
Work starts on first UK offshore wind tower factoryArgyll, Scotland, gets £27m South Korean investment Work on the UK’s first offshore wind tower factory will officially start in Argyll today (July 7) at a ground-breaking ceremony attended by Scotland’s Energy Minister.CS Wind UK’s base in Campbeltown, which employs 175 people, is set for a £27… Read more »
Trelleborg’s engineered products operation announces it has been awarded a contract by the Siemens/Petrofac consortium for its first floatover installation of an offshore converter platform – BorWin3 wind farm project. The high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter station will sit nearly 130 kilometers off the German coast in the North Sea. Siemens will supply the… Read more »
Heraeus PERC-Tabbing Paste Receives Intersolar Show Industry Award for delivering outstanding cell efficiency More than 47,000 industry experts voted for award. HANAU, GERMANY- July 05, 2016- Heraeus Photovoltaics, the worldwide leading supplier of metallization solutions to the PV industry, received the Solar + Power Award 2016 at the intersolar show in Munich, Germany for its… Read more »
DELAWARE, OH – July 2016 – Engineered Material Systems, Inc. (EMS), a leading global supplier of conductive interconnect materials for photovoltaic applications, will exhibit its new 561-400 series Low-Cost Snap Cure Conductive Adhesives at Intersolar North America, scheduled to take place July 12-14 in San Francisco, CA. The 561-400 series is designed for stringing and… Read more »
Deutsche Windtechnik Ltd. passed the certification audit performed by independent international auditor DNV GL in June. For a whole week the auditors examined quality, industrial safety and environmental management at company headquarters in Edinburgh and two complete wind farms. The certificates attest that the British subsidiary of Deutsche Windtechnik AG fulfils all the quality, health,… Read more »
During the last two exhibitions, new products of Tempress and SoLayTec were revealed. Especially for the next PERC2.0 expansions those products are highly requested by the market. The 2nd Generation InPassion ALD combined with the newest direct PECVD can annually produce up to 130MW including the integrated anneal process. Furthermore, two weeks ago the 25th… Read more »
High-quality photovoltaic (PV) modules demand extremely high long-term performance, while manufacturers also want to reduce production costs as far as possible. The PV industry is therefore looking for optimum production and reliability rates in module production. The pursuit of maximum throughput is likely to make manual inspection almost obsolete: the human eye simply cannot cope… Read more »
Lightsource Renewable Energy’s in house legal team continues to build on its successes after being honoured at a prestigious awards ceremony amongst some of the biggest names in the legal and energy sectors. The team which has grown significantly over the past five years – from one sole counsel in 2011 to a team of… Read more »
Hinesburg USA, July 5th 2016: Renewable NRG Systems (RNRG), a designer and manufacturer of decision support tools for the global renewable energy industry, announced today that it has supplied complete resource assessment packages to French developer VALOREM to support their renewable energy project development activities in Africa. VALOREM is currently building a pipeline of five… Read more »
• New offshore SWT-8.0-154 turbine with up to 10% higher AEP based on existing offshore direct drive platform• Direct drive SWT-3.3-130 onshore wind turbine passes type certificate from DNV GL Siemens’ direct drive wind turbine technology for offshore and onshore wind turbines reaches the next development milestone: The latest addition to the offshore direct drive… Read more »
Trade visitors and delegations expected from all parts of the world WindEnergy Hamburg – at the Hamburg Fair site from 27 to 30 September 2016 WE7/ Hamburg, 4 July 2016WindEnergy Hamburg, the world’s leading wind industry fair, will be held from 27 to 30 September. Once again it will be the global business platform for… Read more »
While PERC (passivated emitter and rear cell) design is currently the most promising cell design and will account for the majority of solar cells in the near future, IBC design is the option with the highest efficiency suitable for mass production. With the contacts soldered only to the rear of the cell, IBC minimizes shadowing… Read more »
Brazil’s trending photovoltaic industry expected to give job market fresh impetus Figures from IRENA 2016, the annual review of renewable energy and jobs, reveal that the number of people employed in the global renewable energy industry rose by 5% in 2015 to reach 8.1 million. The most important employers in this sector are involved in… Read more »
SOLARWATT (http://www.solarwatt.net), the leading German pioneer of high-performance dual-glass solar PV production and storage systems, is developing a partnership network to bring its advanced renewable-energy generation and management systems to homes across the UK. The expansion programme is led by Pol Spronck, recently appointed SOLARWATT International Sales Manager, who has worked in the solar industry… Read more »
• 50 wind turbines for one of the largest onshore wind power plants in Norway• Power sold to Google data centers across Europe Siemens has received an order to supply, install and commission 50 onshore wind turbines in Norway. Project developers are Zephyr AS and Norsk Vind Energi AS. Funds managed by BlackRock are providing… Read more »
The wind service operation vessel (SOV) for the Dutch Gemini project has been christened “Windea la cour” today in Hamburg. The vessel is to set sail to start operations at the Gemini offshore wind power plant this summer. Siemens has supplied 150 wind turbines with a capacity of 4 megawatts each and will service the… Read more »
A new guidance document has been published by the Marine Transfer Forum. “Offshore Personnel Transfer by Crane – Best Practice Guidelines for Routine and Emergency Operations” aims to support an international market which performs over 5 million passenger transfers every year. Developed by EnerMech, DNV GL, Reflex Marine and Seacor Marine the guideline benefits from… Read more »
The wind service operation vessel (SOV) for the Dutch Gemini project has been christened “Windea la cour” today in Hamburg. The vessel is to set sail to start operations at the Gemini offshore wind power plant this summer. Siemens has supplied 150 wind turbines with a capacity of 4 megawatts each and will service the… Read more »
At the Intersolar Europe 2016 in Munich, Germany, Meyer Burger presented its industry leading photovoltaic technologies for the manufacture of high quality and high efficiency solar wafers, cells and modules. At a parallel event during the exhibition, Meyer Burger was awarded the Solar+Power Award 2016 for its innovative DW288 Series 3 diamond wire cutting solution… Read more »