The International PV Equipment Association (IPVEA), an independent, non-profit organization of manufacturers and suppliers of photovoltaic (PV) fabrication equipment and related raw materials, announces it will provide key information about PV manufacturing equipment worldwide. Targeted to begin this month, the program, which has been developed by VLSI Research on behalf of IPVEA, will collect monthly… Read more »
• The Network of the Spanish multinational has reached 1,311 Qualified Installers in countries like Germany, France, Greece, Italy, Canada and the USA, among others. • Under the name of SOLAR SIGMA, the Web application – totally free for the Qualified Installers – has been working since last November in the Italian market, where PROINSO… Read more »
The world’s largest exhibition for the solar industry boasts another rise in exhibition space and exhibitor numbers. From June 8-10, 2011, Intersolar Europe will once again take center stage in the international solar industry at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre. The world’s largest exhibition for the solar industry is more exciting than ever. Organizers… Read more »
Building on its solid reputation for facilitating next-generation SMT and semiconductor print processes, DEK today announced that it has further expanded its Americas engineering capabilities with the investment of additional resource to support the company’s growing alternative energies business. Experienced staff and state-of-the-art equipment have been added to DEK’s San Jose, California-based engineering lab in… Read more »
Scapa Group Plc. has won the Outstanding Achievement Supplier Award by United Solar, a leading global manufacturer of lightweight, flexible thin-film solar modules and a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices, Scapa was presented with the flagship award in recognition for its effort, dedication and support in the validation, qualification and supply of specialist… Read more »
Discover the numerous improvements of the synthesis module: CLIMATOLOGY: – Possibility to launch synthesis weighting several thermal stabilities– Integration possible of mesoscale data – New formats for time series data including stability– POWER CURVES : – Use of the WTG format– Automatic computation of the density at the wind turbines– New functionality enabling power curves… Read more »
BBB Umwelttechnik GmbH (BBB), one of German’s leading wind energy service providers with sites in Gelsenkirchen and Weiden, is celebrating its 15th anniversary. Following its establishment in the spring of 1996 by Klaus Bergmann and brothers Gerhard and Joachim Binotsch, the wind experts have overseen a continuous expansion of the company. It now has 24… Read more »
SGS Industrial Services in China was awarded a contract to provide comprehensive Quality Control Services of wind towers for Goldwind, a Chinese wind turbine manufacturer based in Urumqi, Xinjiang. During the entire project, SGS supervises the wind tower production process and provides onsite inspection, testing, auditing, monitoring and Quality Control witness services. — The reliability… Read more »
Piraeus Equity Partners, a company of Piraeus Bank Group, and Positive Energy entered into a strategic partnership aimed at implementing an investment program for the installation of photovoltaic systems on industrial rooftops. Piraeus Equity Partners together with its subsidiary, Piraeus Equity Advisors, are the private equity investment arm of Piraeus Bank Group. Positive Energy is… Read more »
Pasan SA, a subsidiary of Meyer Burger Technology Group, has delivered sun simulators to ESTI, the European Solar Test Installation (I), Fraunhofer ISE in Freiburg (DE) and TÜV Rheinland in Köln (DE). These leading institutes are world class references for the performance measurement of photovoltaic modules. The follow-up orders are another remarkable success for Pasan… Read more »
Günter Laubinger (46) has been appointed head of the contracting and procurement department at BBB Umwelttechnik GmbH (BBB), a wind energy consulting company based in Gelsenkirchen. He will be responsible for the inspection of project-specific contracts as part of technical due diligence (TDD) investigations. Customers will benefit from his expertise in drafting precise delivery and… Read more »
centrotherm photovoltaics AG, a pioneer in the turnkey production of crystalline solar cells, has sold a turnkey module line to Austria. Kioto Photovoltaics GmbH is investing a single-digit amount in millions of euros for a turnkey 50 megawatt system to manufacture crystalline solar modules. The agreement with the solar module and turnkey photovoltaic powerplant manufacturer… Read more »
Spire Corporation, a global solar company providing Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) integration services for solar systems, announced today its Spire Solar Systems operation will exhibit at the New England Solar Energy Association’s Building Energy 11 Conference and Tradeshow from March 8 through the 10, 2011 at Booth 943 in the Seaport World Trade Center… Read more »
Solar Panels Plus (SPP) announces that the SplitCool DC-18 solar air conditioner has passed its TUV product safety testing and now carries the CE mark. Customers can be assured that electrical, fire, and mechanical safety issues have been properly addressed and that the SplitCool unit fully complies with global product safety standards. The SplitCool system… Read more »
Seamless Sensing is to unveil its breakthrough wireless energy monitoring and control solutions, enabled by EnOcean’s energy harvesting technology, at Ecobuild in London today. These new energy-autonomous wireless products have been developed for integration with smart grid networks and are the only such solutions designed specifically for homes in addition to other buildings. In total,… Read more »
With an extensive rescue mission, Ferrostaal successfully evacuated more than 700 international employees of Ferrostaal and other companies from Libya. Today, the last group, consisting of employees from several different sites in the Libyan desert, could leave the country and will start the homeward journey. In addition to about 20 employees from Germany and other… Read more »
With effect from 1 March 2011, the HARTING Technology Group has appointed Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Torsten Ratzmann as Senior Vice President Operations. Alongside global management of all production sites, his future area of responsibility includes all logistics procedures and goods movements, plus the management of HARTING Applied Technologies GmbH & Co. KG, where special machine and… Read more »
Meyer Burger Technology Ltd (SIX Swiss Exchange: MBTN) confirms excellent results for financial year 2010. In 2010, net sales amounted to CHF 826.0 million and the EBITDA margin increased to over 20%. Further details on the financial statements for 2010 as well as the Annual Report 2010 will be published on 21 March 2011. Further… Read more »
Increased yields of up to 25%: SOLON’s SOLraise solar power system, optimized by SolarEdge, maximizes output for individual modules while increasing the overall safety of the PV system SOLON will be introducing a system solution with a power optimizing unit developed to substantially increase yields, in particular on partially shaded roofs, at the 26th Symposium… Read more »
RegCTM heralds a new era of registration and overlay control. Carl Zeiss introduced a new production tool aimed to improve registration and overlay of advanced photomasks. The brand new system called RegCTM is based on ZEISS femtosecond- laser technology. RegCTM enables to correct high-end photomasks for remaining registration errors after the pattern generation process. Current… Read more »
As homeowner’s move to solar energy systems the first thing they realize is that the systems are not cheap. The price of moving to solar power has significantly been reduced for some Delaware Residents over the past 6 months. NRG Miser (http://www.NRGMiser.com) has been providing some clients of Suntricity Power with a low cost NRG… Read more »
• The commercial agreement is developed in the three lines of business and focuses on the photovoltaic market for industrial buildings, solar farms and car parks on a world-wide level. ArcelorMittal Construcción España, branch of the biggest iron and steel company worldwide, and the Spanish solar photovoltaic multinational, Group OPDE, have signed a commercial agreement… Read more »
Hayakawa International Ltd a leading manufacturer and supplier in wire harnesses and cables have announced the opening of two new factories in China’s leading industrial destinations. The Hayakawa Group, with the inclusion of these new factories, currently operates a total of seven factories in China along with 9 factories across 5 other countries meaning Hayakawa… Read more »
National Energy Administration to fully support Clean Energy Expo China and Wind Power Asia The naming of clean energy, especially wind power as one of its main beneficiary in China’s 12th Five-Year plan is expected to be a boon to the domestic industry for the coming years. The Chinese government has announced its 12th Five-Year… Read more »
New products at the 26th Photovoltaic Symposium in Bad Staffelstein At the 26th Symposium on Photovoltaic Solar Energy in Bad Staffelstein from 2 to 4 March Sputnik Engineering is presenting its new communications software MaxTalk 2. This tool monitors and manages the measured values of any number of solar power plants fitted with SolarMax inverters…. Read more »
SOLON Corporation, a provider of turnkey solar power plants and manufacturer of crystalline silicon solar modules in the U.S., has been awarded a contract for the construction of a 15 MW (AC) solar power plant in California for Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E), which supplies natural gas and electric service to approximately 15 million… Read more »
A COMPLEMENTARY ARRANGEMENT BETWEEN NEW GENERATION POWER MICHIGAN, PATRIOT SOLAR GROUP, MARTIFER SOLAR USA, WANXIANG AMERICA, WINDEMULLER ELECTRIC, STARR COMMONWEALTH, SOLAR STREET LIGHTS USA, AND ANDERSON ENVIRONMENTAL & ENGINEERING, New Generation Power Michigan, LLC announced today that it is bidding 100 MW of solar renewable energy and 100 MW of wind renewable energy projects for… Read more »
centrotherm photovoltaics AG benefited significantly from last year’s boom in new orders in the solar sector, and has achieved record results in the 2010 financial year according to preliminary figures. Revenue grew 22.6 percent to EUR 624.2 million (2009: EUR 509.1 million). Total operating performance increased to EUR 681.2 million (2009: EUR 536.0 million). Earnings… Read more »
At this year’s 5th International Solar Industry and Photovoltaic Exhibition & Conference in Shanghai (SNEC) GP Solar GmbH presents its newest product advancement in laboratory measuring technology, the GP ISO-TEST .Waf. The wholly owned subsidiary of centrotherm photovoltaics AG will also present consumables – some with improved recipes – under the new brand, >GP Solar… Read more »
In what is regarded as milestone decision Finish authorities granted the water permit to Suurhiekka offshore wind farm, the first full scale offshore project of the country. The project of 80 turbines has been developed by wpd since 2007 and aims for start of construction in 2014 – depending on the government’s decision on a… Read more »
Intersolar invites international solar companies to submit applications for the solar industry’s most distinguished award for innovation On June 8, 2011 the fourth annual Intersolar AWARD is being presented at Intersolar Europe. The award pays tribute to innovative products and services in the fields of Photovoltaics, Solar Thermal Technology and PV Production Technology. This year,… Read more »
17 February 2011 saw the naming of two more 13,100TEU container vessels for Rickmers Group in Ulsan, Korea. Leo Rickmers and Scorpio Rickmers will come into service for their charterer Maersk Line as Maersk Edmonton and Maersk Elba. Leo Rickmers was named by Manuela Steffens, wife of Jan Boje Steffens, CEO and Managing Partner of… Read more »
Can you imagine your cellphone tower that transmits signals to your mobile handsets running on solar energy? That is set to happen soon, with as many as 400 telecom towers to be powered by panels that will sit on them, reflecting light from the sun to produce electricity that will be used by the towe… Read more »
In 2010, the international photovoltaics industry saw its turnover double with around 15 gigawatts (GW) of newly installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity, making 2010 to the industry’s most successful year to date. By way of comparison, new capacity totaled 7.1 GW in 2009, and 2008 saw approximately 5.7 GW installed worldwide. Huge price cuts in 2009… Read more »
• Pfeiffer Vacuum is now present in all boom areas • In Brazil now direct selling possible through import license registration • Inauguration of the new premise takes place in April Asslar, Germany, February 21, 2011. Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG is in the process of opening its own subsidiary in São Paulo, Brazil. With these… Read more »
Saft, the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of high-tech batteries will supply renewable energy storage for 2500 R Street, California’s first micro-grid, distributed energy community housing project. These advanced homes will use the latest in smart grid, solar generation and energy storage to ensure each home generates as much clean energy as it uses, thus… Read more »