Rueil-Malmaison, France – March 4, 2014 – The Solar Business of Schneider Electric, a global leader in solutions and services for the solar power conversion chain, is proud to announce that it reached a major milestone at the end of 2013 by surpassing over one GW of cumulated service contracts. Schneider Electric becomes the first… Read more »
Ingeteam has connected its first solar PV plant in Puerto Rico. The 500 kW power plant, built by WindMar Renewable Energy Inc, is also the first solar plant to have installed the transformer version of Ingeteam’s UL compliant central inverter INGECON SUN Power Max. Moreover, these PV solar inverters have been approved by the OGPe,… Read more »
Reliable, efficient and flexible solutions to optimise wind turbine competitiveness Spain, 5 March 2014. Ingeteam, an independent market leader specialising in power electronics, automation systems and electric machines, will exhibit at EWEA 2014 Annual Event, Europe’s premier wind energy event, taking place in Barcelona, Spain from 10-13 March. At the event, Ingeteam will be showcasing… Read more »
The new study by the bifa environmental institute describes a future-orientated view of the ecological and economic effects of photovoltaic (PV) systems along their whole life cycle. The study evaluated the production of the PV systems, their operation in different application cases and different recycling scenarios. Wafer and thin- film technologies were examined. The evaluation… Read more »
Swiss inverter manufacturer SolarMax has expanded its distribution network in the UK with a new partnership with leading UK PV distributor Alternergy. Alternergy are now holding stock of the P-Series and MT-Series string inverters for both residential and commercial installations. This expansion of Alternergy’s inverter offering follows on from the successful launch of their e-commerce… Read more »
SHANGHAI – February [27] — JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: JASO) (“JA Solar” or the “Company”), one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-performance solar power products, today announced that it will supply 7.8MW of its high-efficiency full square mono solar modules to British Solar Renewables, a U.K-based developer of large-scale renewable projects, for… Read more »
ALMERE, The Netherlands – March 02, 2014 – Levitech BV today announced that one of Taiwan’s largest solar cell manufacturers transferred a Levitrack Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) system to manufacturing, and placed an order for a second Levitrack system to be shipped in the second quarter. “The Levitrack has a proven record in high volume… Read more »
• The delivery of this 78.4 MWp cluster strengthens the established partnership between Martifer Solar and Lightsource Renewable Energy, the UK’s largest solar energy generator • Martifer Solar continues its active development in the UK market with a healthy pipeline of projects to be ready to build throughout 2014 and early 2015 • The 78.4… Read more »
London, UK and Hod Hasharon, Israel, March 4, 2014 – SolarEdge Technologies, a leading provider of power optimisers and PV inverters, announces the expansion of its product portfolio for the UK solar market. Following a successful 2013, SolarEdge is further increasing the mainstream usage of SolarEdge module-level electronics and inverters in both the residential and… Read more »
With the new software GeoT*SOL basic 2.0, the Berlin-based software company Valentin has extended the field of application for their design program for heat pump systems. In addition to air and geothermal probes, which extract heat by drilling up to 100 meters deep, the new program now also makes it possible to design pump systems… Read more »
3 New High-Efficiency Panels to be Revealed at Ecobuild UK WUXI, China, Feb. 28, 2014/Press Release/ — Wuxi Suntech Power Co., Ltd. (the “company”, or “Suntech”) will be showcasing its new solar products at London’s 2014 Ecobuild Exhibition March 4th to March 6th. Wuxi Suntech, the owner of the “Suntech” brand, was acquired by Shunfeng… Read more »
Shanghai, February 24, 2014 – JA Solar, a global leading manufacturer of high performance solar cells and modules, will continue to promote its PERCIUM cells module and RIECIUM cells module at global exhibitions in February 2014. The products have already been successfully launched in CleanTech Summit& Exhibition in Israel on 18th February and will appear… Read more »
Burnaby, Canada, February 24, 2014 -Schneider Electric Solar Business, a global leader in solutions for the solar power conversion chain, will be showcasing our All-In-One Solar PV Box product at the PV Expo 2014 on February 26 – 28, in Tokyo, Japan to over 76,000 attendees. The Schneider Electric PV Box is a containerized plug… Read more »
Rome, 20th February 2014 – Flavio Cecchi and Damien Haudebert, CEOs Italy, representing respectively KACO new energy group, directed by Ralf Georg Hofmann and ASTAR EnR, directed by Jean Ange Martin, sign an agreement to further increase the distribution of the said inverter manufacturer, at 3rd position in the world for importance and sales. KACO… Read more »
Munich, Germany, February 20, 2014 – Together with the Easy Roof mounting system from French manufacturer IRFTS, Innotech Solar’s (ITS) photovoltaic modules have been awarded all-important ETN certification. In France, solar installations comprising such certified product combinations are classed as building-integrated systems and thus command higher feed-in tariffs of up to 28.51 Euro cents per… Read more »
Neuhausen-Hamberg (Germany), February 19th, 2014. With effect from February 2014 Dr. Burghard Schneider succeeded André Brütsch as Head of the Bystronic glass Group. In his position as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), he will automatically become a member of the Conzzeta AG Management Group. Burghard Schneider studied at Munich Technical University where he gained his doctorate… Read more »
The Meyer Burger Group and CSEM, with support from the Swiss Federal Office of Energy and of the Canton of Neuchâtel, will strengthen Switzerland’s position as leader for technological innovation in the photovoltaic sector and ensure its competitiveness as a major equipment provider in the international photovoltaic industry. The key is heterojunction silicon technology. More… Read more »
SolarMax presents the new powerful HT string inverters with multi-tracking – designed to deliver optimum system yields for operators of commercial and industrial PV power plants. Biel, February 18, 2014 – In the face of continuing reductions in subsidies, PV plant planners have the challenge of delivering cost-optimized systems which will provide high levels of… Read more »
Shanghai, China, February 18, 2014 – JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq:JASO) (“JA Solar” or the “Company”), one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-performance solar power products, today announced that its multi-crystalline silicon (“multi-Si”) solar cells have surpassed 19% conversion efficiency. This latest improvement in efficiency, achieved using advanced cell technology recently developed by… Read more »
Savills Energy has secured its 10th consecutive planning permission for ground-mount projects in the UK on behalf of leading British solar developer Solarcentury. This maintains a 100% success rate in planning application submissions by Savills for Solarcentury and reaffirms Savills’ assertion that elements of the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry are thriving, despite shifting government policy… Read more »
9MWp project Bardzour is a great example of the reliability and predictability of Renewable energies An often stated argument against supporting the progression of Renewables as a source of energy, and that of PV in particular, is the fact that the energy output depends on the amount of solar irradiation instantly available. It would hence… Read more »
Watford/UK, Munich/Germany, 13th February 2014 – The Scandinavian-German panel manufacturer Innotech Solar (ITS) has supplied more than 1.400 photovoltaic modules with a total output of 360 kilowatts peak (kWp) to schools in England. All installations were planned and built by Engynious Clean Power UK, a company specialising in developing solar power plants in the UK…. Read more »
InnoLas has reorganized its business such that the photovoltaic business unit – previously operated as part of InnoLas Systems GmbH – now becomes a new organization: InnoLas Solutions GmbH. The InnoLas Solutions GmbH is a wholly owned entity of InnoLas Holding GmbH and has its registered office in 82152 Krailling, Pionierstraße 6, Germany. The transfer… Read more »
JA Solar is the first solar company to receive such certification from CQC SHANGHAI, China, February 11, 2014 – JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq:JASO) (“JA Solar” or the “Company”), one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-performance solar power products, today announced that the performance of the Company’s solar modules in extreme environments has… Read more »
Blaubeuren, February 11, 2014 – In December and January alone, the technology provider centrotherm received orders from leading solar cell manufacturers totaling around 30 million euros. In the Photovoltaics business unit, centrotherm therefore currently has an order book position in the single equipment business of around 62 million euros. Customers are ordering wide-ranging equipment packages… Read more »
With 388 15MT2 inverters, the Neuenbrook solar park near Hamburg is among the largest decentralized PV plants ever built using SolarMax string inverters Biel, 06 February 2014 – In cooperation with the project planning company actensys GmbH, the Swiss company Sputnik Engineering implemented a solar park with a total power output of 6MW using 388… Read more »
Schneider Electric Solar Business, a global leader in PV inverters and in electrical solutions for the solar power conversion chain, is now shipping the new Conext Core XC-NA Series – a new line of central inverters designed for high reliability and compatibility with any photovoltaic panel type and installation. “We are very excited to announce… Read more »
Higher feed-in tariff for semi-integrated mounting systems Cologne, Germany, 5 February 2014 – The ETN certification held by Renusol’s mounting system MetaSole has been extended to include the SolarWorld module series, Sunmodule Plus SW Poly. Solar installations with this certified product combination are acclaimed in France as semi-integrated systems, which means they receive a higher… Read more »
Delta was very proud to be able to supply inverters to our customer, ENTEGRO Photovoltaik Sistemleri, to support their installation of the very first grid-tied PV system in the Aydin province in Turkey. Initial situation The owners of the Algur Dairy, located in the city of Soke and the province of Aydin, in southwest Turkey,… Read more »
• SINGULUS supplied systems for the key process steps• PTiP continues to improve and scale-up CIGS technology• CIGS modules with high local content and efficiency levels manufactured• Goal to implement a large-scale commercial production line with PTiP’s process Stellenbosch/Kahl am Main, February 3, 2014 – In the presence of numerous honorary guests from Germany and… Read more »
PPG liquid encapsulant technology key to streamlining production process PITTSBURGH, Jan. 31, 2014 – PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) industrial coatings business has received a $2.1 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help design and pilot a rapid photovoltaic (PV) module assembly process that uses automation to eliminate time and labor from the… Read more »
Würzburg (Germany), January 30, 2014 – Wacker Chemie AG and OCI Company Ltd., the world’s No. 2 and 3 polysilicon manufacturers, respectively, are the big winners after the latest rulings of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) regarding anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on polysilicon imports into China. While final duty rates of up to 57%… Read more »
Biel, January 30, 2014 – The Swiss inverter manufacturer Sputnik Engineering (SolarMax) is expanding its local operations in Chile with the realisation of several photovoltaic projects. The South-American country with its high solar irradiation and huge surface availability, especially in the Atacama desert, belongs to the emerging PV markets. Recently SolarMax finished a hybrid system… Read more »
Ingeteam, a leading solar inverter manufacturer, has supplied its new Ingecon Sun PowerMax 500 kW inverters in Jefferson, Wisconsin. The 1.2 MW PV project came online in December and it is one of the largest in the State. This large-scale PV plant was built by the Chicago-based company Half Moon Ventures and it features the… Read more »
Vantaa, Finland, January 27, 2014 – The Switch, a leading supplier of megawatt-class permanent magnet generator and full-power converter packages for wind power and other renewable energy applications, successfully commissioned its 1 MW single module PVI 1000 solar inverter for Ultra Cosmic Solar Energy, a newly established Indian solar energy company. The Switch PVI 1000… Read more »
Berlin, 22. Jan. 2014. The Berlin-based software company Valentin is launching its programme PV*SOL Expert 6.0 R7 today. The new software enables users to plan and visualise roof-integrated, roof-top and free-standing plants with a power of up to two megawatts. For the new version, Valentin has increased the maximum number of solar modules that can… Read more »