Ben Hunt has been appointed new global Head of Corporate Affairs for Siemens Gamesa María Cortina, former Head of Communications and Public Affairs, will lead a strategic project for the company, and act as senior advisor for Corporate Affairs in Spain Siemens Gamesa today announced a new structure for its Corporate Affairs department, with the… Read more »
To verify the energy gains of PERC bifacial modules in different environments, LONGi cooperated with the top third-party organizations to build many pilot projects in 2018. Among them, pilot project of TÜV SÜD in Hainan focused on the energy gain of bifacial modules under different surface reflection conditions and verify the effects of the modules… Read more »
8 MW Direct Drive machine with 167-meter diameter rotor is fully compliant to the new IEC’s Renewable Energy scheme for type certification of wind turbines Turbine will be installed in offshore wind parks worldwide including the Hornsea 2 project in UK and Greater Changhua 1 & 2a project in Taiwan. Hamburg, Germany, 3rd October 2019… Read more »
generating power equivalent to saving 45,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per annum specialist infrastructure investment manager Foresight acquires assets from Glennmont acquisition boosts Foresight’s wind portfolio by 11% to 372.5MW LONDON, 03 October 2019: Foresight Group (“Foresight”) is pleased to announce the acquisition of two wind farms with an aggregate generating capacity of 37.5MW from… Read more »
North East England’s offshore wind industry and the opportunities open to UK companies from significant upcoming wind farm developments will be the focus of a major event taking place in the region in November. Offshore Wind North East, which is being held on 7 November, follows the government’s recent Contracts for Difference announcement, which gave… Read more »
By integrating onsite DER, companies are able to improve customer relationships, use energy efficient technologies, and drive the global clean energy transformation October 2, 2019 – Boulder, Colo. – A new report from Navigant Research explores the current landscape of corporate onsite distributed energy resources (DER) deployments. Corporate sustainability initiatives have become prominent, public-facing components… Read more »
Dresden / Leuna, 02 October 2019. Sunfire, a leading global cleantech company, has signed a cooperation agreement with the French major energy company Total SA. Sunfire will provide a megawatt-scale high temperature electrolyser for use in industrial environments as part of the E-CO2MET research and development project. The company will also be responsible for the integration… Read more »
NOF Chief Executive George Rafferty has praised the joint venture developers of the Dogger Bank Wind Farms for unveiling GE Renewable Energy as its preferred turbine supplier, less than a fortnight after being successful in the latest round of Contracts for Difference (CfD) awards from the UK government. SSE and Equinor, 50:50 joint venture partners… Read more »
In late September 2019, Cargostore Containers LLC received ADNOC’s ICV (In-Country Value) certification, demonstrating the company’s support of local business. ADNOC launched the ICV program with the objective of growing and diversifying the U.A.E’s economy by supporting local suppliers within the U.A.E’s Oil and Gas Industry. Cargostore Containers LLC; part of the Cargostore Worldwide Group,… Read more »
Today, Shell UK and PassivSystems are pleased to announce the launch of B-Snug, a smart hybrid heating system for British homeowners. The B-Snug system uses advanced technology to manage a combination of an air source heat pump and a traditional boiler. The intelligent controls continuously monitor the temperature in the home and analyse weather forecasts… Read more »
ONYX InSight has been selected by Dongkuk S&C to replace the main bearing on a wind turbine generator at their wind farm in the Jollanam Province, South Korea South Korea, 1st October – ONYX InSight, a leading provider of predictive maintenance in the wind energy industry, was chosen by Dongkuk S&C to replace one of… Read more »
Monday, September 30, 2019 — Following the planned sale of PMV nv’s stake in REBO, DEME has taken the decision to sell its own participation to the Port of Ostend. DEME possessed a 30% share (15% DEME Blue Energy & 15% DEME Offshore) in the company. The REBO terminal in the outer port of Ostend is… Read more »
DNV GL’s independent wind farm monitoring and reporting services, including WindGEMINI and the Operations control room will be rolled-out across eight wind farm sites to provide Banks Renewables with a 24/7 view of its operations. Glasgow, UK – 30th September 2019 – DNV GL has been awarded a contract by Banks Renewables to provide monitoring… Read more »
InnoLas Solutions had a strong 3rd quarter 2019 and booked orders in the value of 7,6 Mio. EURO. Several major orders came from leading cell/ module manufacturers outside China. “The high investments in new, very competitive devices are showing first results”, says Markus Nicht – CEO of InnoLas Solutions. The orders are divided between the… Read more »
SUCCESS IN US AMERICAN PROJEKT-DEVELOPMENT: PFALZSOLAR INC. SOLD FIRST PROJECT PFALZSOLAR Inc. has been developing its project development in the USA since 2016 and is celebrating its first major successes this September. One of these successes is the fully engineered “Fine Farms” project with an output of 4.8 MW, which was sold a few days… Read more »
Responding, Morag Watson, Director of Policy at Scottish Renewables, said: “These new figures show once again that renewable energy is the backbone of Scotland’s energy system. “As we seek to meet some of the world’s most stretching emissions targets we must do more to decarbonise our heat and transport sectors, and the success shown to… Read more »
Oakland, U.S. (27th September 2019) – DNV GL, the world’s largest resource of independent energy experts and certification body, has developed an advanced tool that uses very granular data from the past 20 years to create the equivalent of 10,000 years of plausible realities – simply put, a parallel universe generator that has 10,000 times… Read more »
First study of its kind demonstrates scale of potential future green energy workforce Figures show ‘enormous range of courses’ on offer from Borders to Highlands 36% of students studying renewable energy are female Almost 13,000 students are studying courses related to renewable energy at Scotland’s universities and colleges, the first survey of its kind has… Read more »
Growth of C&I EaaS will create new opportunities for sustainable finance September 26, 2019 – Boulder, CO – A new report from Navigant Research examines the global market for the deployment of turnkey Energy as a Service (EaaS), providing market forecasts, segmented by region, application, and deployment model, through 2028. Corporate commercial and industrial… Read more »
Good news for installers: The process of planning PV systems – from roof mounting to electrical system design – is now easier and more convenient than before. The new planning software from K2 Systems now features a direct interface with the inverter planning tool SUNNY DESIGN from SMA Solar Technology AG (SMA). Interconnection of mechanical… Read more »
Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, has appointed Duncan Wren in the role of Energy Manager. This new role has been created in response to the growing demand from clients in the built environment to help with lowering their carbon emissions. Euan Hutchison, Associate Technical Director (Planning), said: “Working with our teams… Read more »
Clir brings strategic venture partner to accelerate growth. Vancouver based Clir Renewables, closed their Series A round of C$7.1m this month, led by strategic investor ArcTern Ventures. Clir’s software platform uses machine learning algorithms to categorize and quantify areas of underperformance across wind farms, resulting in recommended actions for improvement,… Read more »
Claire Mack, Chief Executive at Scottish Renewables, said: “The cross-party consensus that Scotland must take bold action on emissions reductions remains one of the most important aspects of Scotland’s climate change success and we welcome this piece of legislation as another step towards the realisation of our stretching climate change targets. “The renewable energy industry, which… Read more »
Key market drivers include consumer demand, accessible hardware, and environmental concerns September 25, 2019 – Boulder, CO – A new report from Navigant Research examines the home energy management (HEM) market, its key players, and important technology trends, along with the main market drivers and inhibitors. New technologies and approaches are altering the HEM… Read more »
New DNV GL report reviews progress, potential and barriers for digitalization in the wind energy industry Improving operational efficiency (identified by 52% of respondents), decision making (42%) and cost efficiency (40%) are top priorities for further digitalization Balance between sharing data and protecting competitive advantage and Intellectual Property key to realizing full potential of digital… Read more »
FREMONT, Calif.—September 24, 2019 — NEXTracker, a Flex company, introduced today a new member of its smart single-axis solar tracker family—NX GeminiTM. The next-generation two-module-in-portrait (2P) tracker is optimized for customer sites with hard soils, challenging terrain, irregular parcel shapes and high-wind requirements. The combination of NEXTracker’s flagship NX HorizonTM and NX Gemini offers customers the industry’s most comprehensive solar tracker… Read more »
Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) and R.Power sp. z o.o. (R.Power) have finalised a transaction whereby ASI acquired a 100% stake in a 45.5MW portfolio of ground mounted solar photovoltaic (“PV”) farms from R.Power. The portfolio developed by R.Power consists of 47 state of the art individual projects with a total installed capacity of 45.5MW. All… Read more »
meteocontrol adds VCOM CMMS to the PV monitoring portal Augsburg, September 24, 2019 – Automated processes, efficient operations, high quality, more service and transparency for customers: meteocontrol GmbH sets new standards for the technical operation management of photovoltaic systems with its integrated VCOM CMMS. The online platform VCOM Cloud now unites monitoring and O&M processes… Read more »
Arnhem/Berlin, 24 September 2019 – DNV GL proudly announce the world’s first MW-level wind turbine power converter input-impedance measurement carried out in an independent lab with the commercial partner Ming Yang Smart Energy, Zhongshan, China. A current perturbation measurement setup is prototyped in the DNV GL Flex Power Grid Lab (FPGL) to measure the input-impedance… Read more »
Schneider Electric’s MPPT Disconnect RS provides an easy to install solution for rapid shutdown PV arrays, certified with Tigo TS4-F (Fire Safety) The MPPT Disconnect RS is compatible with Schneider Electric’s Conext™ MPPT charge controllers used for DC coupled solar & storage systems requiring NEC 2017 compliance Burnaby, BC, September 23, 2019 – Schneider Electric, the… Read more »
TS4-A-2F (Fire Safety) is the TS4 Platform’s newest advanced rapid shutdown solution for two modules up to 1000W and standard configuration of 1500V Los Gatos, CA, September 23, 2019 – Tigo®, pioneer of the smart modular Flex MLPE & TS4 Platform, today announced its new TS4-A-2F (Fire Safety), the advanced retrofit/add-on rapid shutdown solution for two modules that provides… Read more »
U.S.-based solar charging leader and an Italian electrical company partner to bring electricity to 1 million Peruvians; accomplish goal on schedule and budget. September 23rd, Salt Lake City, Utah USA-– at the nation’s premiere solar event, Morningstar Corporation will present the results of the single largest off-grid solar-powered rural electrification project in history: Peru’s five-year… Read more »
Nine inverters have been replaced by the latest generation of Ingeteam inverters, targeting minimizing production loses and extending the useful life of the plant. This solar PV plant, commissioned in 2008 and owned by Sonnedix, covers 6,8 hectares , equivalent to seven football pitches and generating energy for 3,000 homes a year. 23 of september,… Read more »
Confirmation of Company’s strategic realignment In a letter to shareholders, Meyer Burger Technology Ltd. (SIX Swiss Exchange: MBTN) today announced the Board of Directors‘ voting recommendation for the extraordinary Shareholders‘Meeting on October 30, 2019. A shareholder group headed by Sentis Capital PCC (“Sentis”) requests the election of Mark Kerekes, Co-Managing Director and Board member of Sentis,… Read more »
Leuven, Belgium, 23 September 2019 – Sitemark, a world-leading aerial data analytics company has raised a total of €5 million in a Series A investment round led by Korys and existing investor Chroma Impact Investment. The new investment round will allow Sitemark to further capitalize on its position as a growing market leader within the… Read more »
New motion compensated hoist will provide offshore maintenance teams with ladder-free access to offshore wind turbines Technology removes the need for turbine boat landing and ladders all together Ørsted has acquired stake in Scotland-based Pict Offshore to mature the technology Innovative product set to improve safety and reduce costs across whole industry London, 00.01 on… Read more »