Category: Solar

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

UK-based solar energy company, Solarcentury, has secured new financing to build two of the largest solar plants in Spain demonstrating the UK’s leadership on climate change. UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK’s export credit agency, has today (7 January 2019) guaranteed £47.6 million worth of financing for Solarcentury, in a boost to UK solar exports…. Read more »

The compatibility of Imeon solar inverters and Dyness’s lithium batteries, certified by both actors, allows Imeon Energy to better meet the expectations of its customers who look for safe, reliable storage solution, which in case of Dyness’s product comes in an eye-catching IP65 enclosure. This compatibility gives Imeon Energy an opportunity to strengthen its position… Read more »

Ingeteam, 23 December 2019. Ingeteam has supplied its technology to a 240 MWp solar PV plant in Vietnam. The Xuan Thien Thuan Bac PV project is the largest one that Ingeteam has supplied to date for the solar sector in Southeast Asia. The company’s supply comprised forty 5 MW Inverter Stations, two 3.4 MW Inverter… Read more »

Walton EMC and Silicon Ranch Commissioned Project Serving Facebook’s Newton Data Center Using 102.5 Megawatt of Q CELLS Modules. [Irvine, United States, December 20, 2019] Q CELLS (or “The Company”), a world-leading total energy solutions provider, joined in celebrating the commissioning of the Bancroft Station Solar Farm on December 12th, Facebook’s first solar project in… Read more »

Meyer Burger Technology Ltd (SIX Swiss Exchange: MBTN) is selling its inkjet printing business (PiXDRO) located in Meyer Burger (Netherlands) B.V. in Eindhoven (NL) to Süss MicroTec SE headquartered in Germany. The approximately 30 employees will transer from Meyer Burger (Netherlands) B.V. to Süss MicroTec SE. The contract is subject to standard market completion conditions… Read more »

Garsten, Austria, 18.12.2019. The Clean Capital Energy Group kicked off construction of the “La Huella” ground-mounted project in Chile at the end of November in a ground-breaking ceremony. Participants of the official ceremony included numerous senators, members of parliament and mayors from the region, alongside project managers of the CCE Group and of Spanish construction… Read more »

“PROCESS” trade magazine awards prizes for milestones in the fields of chemistry, pharmaceuticals and process engineering Pfeiffer Vacuum honored for its particular sensitivity to the wide-ranging vacuum technology requirements of the various industries Asslar, December 18, 2019. “Process”, the specialist media brand of the Vogel Communications Group, has taken its 25th anniversary as an opportunity… Read more »

Meyer Burger Technology Ltd. (SIX Swiss Exchange: MBTN) announced today to completely discontinue its production site in Zülpich (Germany) by mid-2020. In the future, the systems for optical measuring and testing technologies for industrial manufacturing sold under the Hennecke brand will be produced entirely at Meyer Burger’s largest site in Hohenstein-Ernstthal using own resources. Around… Read more »

Q CELLS reaffirms commitment to innovation as brand reaches 20-year milestone in solar industry Twenty years after the Q CELLS brand was born, the Company’s enduring technological excellence continues to shape the solar industry on a global scale. [Irvine, United States, December 17, 2019] Q  CELLS (or “The Company”), a world-leading total energy solutions provider… Read more »

With the addition of Sertão Solar Barreiras Complex, Atlas Renewable Energy now operates 421 MWp photovoltaic projects in the country. São Paulo, Brazil, December 17, 2019 – Atlas Renewable Energy, a leader in clean energy across Latin America, announces that its fourth project in Brazil, Sertão Solar Barreiras Complex, is fully operational. The plant has… Read more »

Long-standing relationship between CERN and Pfeiffer Vacuum Vacuum technology for probing the fundamental structure of the universe Helium leak detector ASM 340 for the Large Hadron Collider Asslar, December 16, 2019. Pfeiffer Vacuum has received yet another major order for leak detectors from CERN. CERN is seated in Geneva on the Franco-Swiss border and is… Read more »

Further to the announcement of 14 November 2019, NextEnergy Solar Fund today announces the energisation of Staughton, the UK’s largest subsidy-free solar plant with an installed capacity of 50MWp. The Staughton solar plant will cover the yearly electricity demand of approximately 15,000 UK households. It is largely located on a former airfield on the Bedfordshire/Cambridgeshire… Read more »

Berlin, 12 December 2019: OPES Solutions announces the mass production of lead-free soldered solar modules. By achieving lead-free soldering in the manufacturing process, the organization eliminates a harmful but common substance found in many solar production methods. By leading the way in the creation and application of environmentally solar panels, OPES has been able to… Read more »

Montpellier, France, December 11, 2019. LONGi Solar, the world’s leading solar technology company has received CERTISOLIS’ low carbon footprint certification for its latest generation of high-efficiency mono-crystalline modules. This is validation that LONGi’s PV solar products are qualified for France’s CRE projects and paves the way for LONGi to offer its customers high quality solar… Read more »

The only European company that has found its place in China among the giants in the photovoltaic industry The 14th edition of the China Awards took place yesterday, 10 December 2019, at the Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia in Milan. FuturaSun, a company specialising in the design and manufacture of high-efficiency photovoltaic panels, received… Read more »

ABB partners with Romande Energie to supply its market leading inverter solutions for one of the world’s highest floating PV installations, which increases efficiency of DC production by up to 30 percent, even in the winter. The innovative solar plant, situated 1810 meters above sea level on the artificial Lac des Toules in Switzerland, is… Read more »

KYIV, Ukraine, Nov. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Jolywood, world leading NTOPCon cells and modules manufacturer, announced that the biggest NTOPCon bifacial photovoltaic plant in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine has been connected to the national grid in October 2019. The Starosynyavs’kyi 5.6MW plant is the first NTOPCon bifacial solar plant in the country supplied with Jolywood D72N solar modules, and is… Read more »

·        The financing has been completed with K&H Bank for 29 individual KÁT-licensed power plants with a combined capacity of 20.1 MWp in six different locations ·        The  long-term, non-recourse project financing agreement of up to 5.93 billion HUF (17.9 million EUR) has been signed for a period of 15 years Amsterdam – 10 December… Read more »

New automated production line can be scaled up to 10 times of the current system capacity per month, enabling BYD to deliver more systems than any other provider Shenzhen, Dec. 05, 2019 – The Battery-Box product line by BYD Co. Ltd., one of the world’s largest manufacturer of rechargeable batteries, has been received with great… Read more »

As the leading international R&D and manufacturing company of CIGS thin-film photovoltaic modules, NICE Solar Energy is proud to announce a new world record for CIGS thin-film solar modules with a total area efficiency of 17.6%. TÜV Rheinland has confirmed the record efficiency. May 2017 marked the beginning of a new era, when the China-Germany… Read more »

High-precision satellite solar irradiance data for the VCOM Cloud Augsburg/Sydney, December 4, 2019 – meteocontrol GmbH, one of the leading global providers of independent monitoring solutions for PV systems, has partnered with Solcast: The Australian service provider of satellite data delivers high-precision irradiance data for every system location around the world. meteocontrol uses these data… Read more »

4 December 2019 – Octopus Renewables, part of Octopus Group, has today announced that energy generation has commenced from seven solar PV plants in Italy totalling 70MW, providing the equivalent carbon saving of planting 25,000 acres of forest from just 300 acres of land. The plants are based near Cagliari on the island of Sardinia… Read more »

Munich/Pforzheim, December 3, 2019 – After remaining at a stable yet high level in 2018, the global expansion in renewable energy capacity started to pick up speed again this year. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the deployment of new capacity will have increased by just under 12 percent in 2019 compared to the previous… Read more »

SINGAPORE: 8 October – On 8 October, Total announced the solarization of its largest state-of- the-art lubricants oil blending plant, located in Singapore. The Tuas plant produces lubricants used mainly for automotive market, as well as industrial and marine applications in the ASEAN market. It has an annual production capacity of 310,000 metric tons. The… Read more »

A new report from Navigant Research presents a forecast of installed capacity, system prices, application segments, and revenue for the global solar PV (SPV) market through 2028. The global market for annual solar PV installations has crossed the 100 GW milestone. As the market for SPV has grown in the past decade, the need for transparency and… Read more »

Ingeteam and Pylontech have tested and certified, at their respective R&D laboratories, the compatibility of Ingeteam’s hybrid inverter (PV inverter + batteries) with Pylontech’s HV batteries. Specifically, the INGECON® SUN STORAGE 1Play inverter and the POWERCUBE X1/X2 and FORCE H1/H2 batteries were tested. The use of Ingeteam’s hybrid inverter together with Pylontech’s batteries makes it… Read more »

Solar Support, an engineering services company, officially launches its integrated equipment and plant restoration and recovery solution. Working with some of the leading O&M providers in the country, Solar Support combines deep inverter expertise with construction management acumen to resolve complex issues for utility systems. The company delivers remote and on-site diagnostics and issue resolution to… Read more »