Wärtsilä Corporation, Press release, 23 January 2020 at 9 am EET The technology group Wärtsilä has won the contract to supply a 33 MW flexible power plant on a fast-track basis to the Barbados Light & Power Company Limited (BLPC), the utility company on the Caribbean island of Barbados. The power plant will be supplied… Read more »
With the certification, LONGi’s laboratories can certify photovoltaic modules based on IEC 61215 and IEC 61730 international standards 21st January 2020, Xi ́an (CHINA) – China Quality Certification Center (CQC), one of the world’s leading third-party testing and certification institution has accorded LONGi the Witnessed Manufacturer’s Testing (WMT) certification for the international standards of IEC… Read more »
21st January 2020, Xi ́an (CHINA) – LONGi, the world’s leading solar manufacturer announced that it had achieved a new world record of 22.38% conversion efficiency for its monocrystalline module. The record was verified by the global independent certification agency TÜV Rheinland. “LONGi has continuously pushed the modules efficiency limits of our high performance mono-… Read more »
Statkraft, Europe’s leading provider of market access services, optimises flexible gas assets to manage UK energy system needs. Since November, these assets also provide effective support for the increasing integration of renewable generation by participating in the UK’s Balancing Mechanism, at the same time creating additional value for the asset owners. Statkraft entered the UK… Read more »
The onshore wind sector in Germany has struggled throughout 2019, achieving only 792.40 megawatt (MW) of onshore wind installations. The lukewarm responses to wind auctions last year means that investors are going slow on project development until any change in local regulation is implemented, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. Mohit Prasad, Project… Read more »
Delta, a global leader in power and thermal management solutions‘, will be exhibiting at this year’s EnerGaia in Montpellier, France the newly-launched M70A solar PV inverter, which offers 77 kVA maximum AC apparent power for ground-mounted and commercial solar rooftop systems. In addition to the M70A, the full range of Delta photovoltaic inverters as well… Read more »
As part of a pilot project, the largest housing and property co-op in Norway, OBOS Group, invested in PV plants on six of their buildings in Oslo in a partnership with Fortum Oslo Varme AS (formerly registered as Hafslund Varme AS at the project inception), the firm that provided the EPC services for the project…. Read more »
Barcelona / Pforzheim, January 21, 2020 – by adding an estimated 4.7 GW in 2019, Spain returns to the continent’s top solar markets and is the clear market leader in Europe. The forecasts for the future development remain promising. According to Solar Power Europe’s “European Market Outlook 2019-2023” published in December 2019, Spain is expected… Read more »
Davos, Switzerland: Renewable energy company Ørsted is the world’s most sustainable company according to the Global 100 ranking announced today. Having completed a fundamental business transformation from fossil fuels to renewables over the past decade, Ørsted urges all countries and companies to reduce their carbon emissions to help limit global warming to 1.5C. The global… Read more »
The California Energy Commission (CEC) has listed multiple SMA solar inverters under the updated Grid Support Solar Inverter compliance list for the California Rule 21 requirements. The approved inverters listed as compliant with Rule 21 phase two and phase three functions are the Sunny Boy-US, Sunny Tripower CORE1 US and Sunny Boy Storage-US series. This… Read more »
With its 500 MW capacity, Núñez de Balboa will supply clean energy to 250.000 people and prevent the emission of 215 000 tons of CO2 per year GPM SCADA solution will manage and monitor the photovoltaic plant The plant plans to begin operating in the first quarter of 2020 Barcelona, Spain 20th January 2020 –… Read more »
Leading energy and services specialist, ENGIE, has launched a high profile new carbon-reduction energy centre in Newcastle A high profile new district energy centre is being officially launched by ENGIE UK, in partnership with Newcastle City Council. The official launch event, which took place on Wednesday, January 15, saw the district energy centre – which… Read more »
Ahead of the launch of a Clean Air Zone in York city centre later this month, City of York Council has awarded more than £1.6 million in funding to five bus companies to help them to make their vehicles more environmentally-friendly. Bus operators were invited to bid for Clean Air Zone (CAZ) funding to help… Read more »
Out of thousands of innovators from across the globe, GridBeyond, a leader in intelligent energy technology for industrial, commercial, institutional and utility partners, was named a 2020 Global Cleantech 100 company by Cleantech Group. The 2020 Global Cleantech 100 is a respected annual guide to the leading businesses in sustainable innovation. It includes “the companies… Read more »
The recently ended year 2019 was a bright year for solar business as a whole and for Gantner in particular. Gantner is very excited about having commissioned monitoring and control solutions for another 1 GW solar power in 2019. Gantner’s complete monitor solution has been supplied for example in projects in Australia, Denmark, Germany, Greece,… Read more »
Responding, Claire Mack, Chief Executive of Scottish Renewables, said: “Industry continues to work hard to demonstrate its commitment to ensuring that the enormous economic benefits of offshore wind are felt as widely as possible in Scotland. “Evidence provided to the Scottish Government has already demonstrated the impact of just some of those measures: more than… Read more »
Starting in February 2020, Deutsche Windtechnik will be taking over maintenance at the Bokel-Ellerdorf wind farm, Part 3. The new service contract covers full maintenance for the six Vestas V112 wind turbines, including large components. The reasons for switching service providers, from the manufacturer to the independent provider Deutsche Windtechnik, included factors such as flexible… Read more »
Northern Offshore Group (N-O-G), owner of Northern Offshore Services (N-O-S) and NYK Line has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate within the offshore wind industry, including the building and operating of Crew Transfer Vessels (CTV). The objective of the MoU is to define the basic terms of a joint study to build and… Read more »
Kahl am Main, 15 January 2020 – SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES AG (SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES) today signed contracts for a large order with the customer (CNBM) Bengbu Design and Research Institute of Glass Industry Co., Ltd., Bengbu, China, a subsidiary of China National Building Materials, China, for the Xuzhou site for the delivery of systems for the production… Read more »
15th January 2020, Xi ́an (CHINA) – Founder and President Li Zhenguo spoke about the development and trends of future energy at the Future Sustainability Summit. The World Future Energy Summit 2020 kicked off at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center in United Arab Emirates on January 14, 2020 with the theme of “Rethinking Global… Read more »
Orders of 1.5 gigawatts (GW) received in the fourth quarter of 2019 Order intake up 31 percent for the full year 2019 Delta4000 series makes up 44 percent of all orders Hamburg, 15 January 2020. The Nordex Group today announced that it continued to receive a large number of orders from Europe as well as… Read more »
Cara Dalzell, Policy Manager at Scottish Renewables, said: “Scotland’s small-scale hydropower sector provides jobs, investment and clean electricity in some of the most rural parts of the country. “Business rates make up a substantial portion of a small hydropower project’s costs, and uncertainty over how much those projects must pay, now and in future, puts… Read more »
French IPP uses datahub to monitor and optimise asset performance for a growing portfolio of wind farms Paris, 14th January 2019 – Kallista Energy, an independent power producer (IPP) of renewable energy, has chosen Greenbyte’s data platform to upgrade and reinforce its wind farm monitoring capacity as it expects its 213MW wind energy portfolio in… Read more »
Subsea technology company Seatools secured a contract from an undisclosed EPC player for the design and delivery of a piling template hydraulic and instrumentation system. The system will be used for pile installation during the construction of an offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Jan Frumau, Managing Director at Seatools, expresses his contentment with the contract:… Read more »
Ingeteam Power Technology has been awarded for the ‘Noor Abu Dhabi PV Plant’ constructed in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) and being built by Sterling and Wilson with an installed power of 1,177.39 MW. (Bonn, 13.01.2020) On the occasion of the ‘World Future Energy Summit’ in Abu Dhabi ‘Ingeteam Power Technology’ received the ‘Global Leading… Read more »
Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, has acted as technical advisor to the Finnish renewable energy developer, Taaleri Energia, in a deal that sees funds managed by Taaleri Group divest part of their wind farm investment portfolio by selling their shares in the Nyby and Myllykangas wind farms to a consortium of… Read more »
Azelio has agreed on a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Jordanian company Hussein Atieh & Sons Co. (HAE), to work together on setting up a small-scale project in Jordan. The project paves the way for a commercial collaboration of about 25 MWe of Azelio’s energy storage technology in the Jordanian market until 2023. This… Read more »
An international Ocean Renewable Energy Action Coalition has been formed to advance sustainable deployment of ocean-based renewable energy and mitigate the harmful impacts of climate change. Ocean-based renewable energy—such as offshore wind, floating solar, tidal and wave power—could meet nearly 10% of the annual greenhouse gas emissions reductions needed by 2050 to keep global temperatures… Read more »
First wind farm to utilize N149/5.X turbines In December 2019, Ardian, a leading private investment house, and OX2, a leading Nordic developer, signed an agreement with Nordex to utilize more powerful turbines at the Åndberg windfarm Hamburg, 10th January 2020 – Ardian and Nordic developer OX2 are relying, for the first time, on Nordex turbines… Read more »
Hatboro, PA – Alencon Systems LLC will demonstrate its unique line-up of power electronics solutions for repowering older PV systems, coupling Solar and Storage and Microgrids at Intersolar North America 2020 in San Diego, CA, February 4 – 6, 2020. The Alencon products on display at Intersolar will include the SPOT Version 6, the newest… Read more »
Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, has assisted AQUIND Ltd. with the application for development consent for the AQUIND Interconnector, a new 2,000 MW subsea and underground high voltage electric power transmission link between the south coast of England and Normandy in France.The application to the Planning Inspectorate has been accepted. By linking… Read more »
ECA Group, expert in robotics, automated systems, simulation and industrial processes, will establish its new factory in the port of Oostende. From there, drone systems will be built for the Belgian and Dutch navies. This is part of the contract for 12 minehunters. In 2016, the Belgian-Dutch Navy decided to buy 16 vessels: 4 frigates… Read more »
The Climate Transparency My view is that 2020 will be a ‘make or break’ year for our efforts to effectively address climate change. Industries are gearing up to deliver reductions in CO2, but need low carbon alternatives that are commercially viable. Investments in low carbon infrastructure take time and time is running out. If we… Read more »
Legacy cylinder oils may not protect ship engines from the variable fuel characteristics of very low sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO), global additive supplier The Lubrizol Corp has advised. In a new whitepaper, Lubrizol outlines the research that underpins its advice that ship owners should use lubricants specifically formulated for these challenges. Marine bench and engine… Read more »
Augsburg/Dubai, January 09, 2020 – meteocontrol GmbH, a global provider of independent PV monitoring systems, is strengthening its international business once again – this time with a focus on the Middle East through the addition of meteocontrol AMEA DMCC in Dubai. meteocontrol GmbH’s monitoring systems currently monitor and control over 48,000 photovoltaic systems worldwide with… Read more »
6th January 2020, Xi ́an (CHINA) – LONGi’s 10GW mono-crystalline module production facility in Chuzhou is now running at full capacity, with its Phase II 5GW reaching construction close. The additional capacity increased total global module production capacity of LONGi to an estimated 21GW, exceeding its previously announced “Three-year Capacity Plan” (2019-2021). Zhong Baoshen, Chairman… Read more »