New back contact module with ‘Best in Class’ efficiency (20%) London, 21 March 2018 – Sharp today launches the industry’s most efficient 48 cell PV module for the European market. The NQ-R258H is a new addition to its NQ-R product family of highly efficient back contact modules for residential and commercial use. The NQ-R258H (258W)… Read more »
The technology group Wärtsilä today announced that it has delivered the world’s largest solar hybrid power plant. Wärtsilä will provide a reliable and sustainable supply of round-the-clock energy which is essential in operating the off-grid gold mine and demonstrate the enormous potential of integrating renewables as the baseload electricity. Wärtsilä was selected by the global… Read more »
More security with less effort and lower costs Geislingen-Binsdorf, Germany – March 19, 2018 – Faults in the functioning of photovoltaic plants that are detected too late can have serious effects on their energy yields. Financial losses and thus lower profitability are often the result. In order to prevent possible malfunctions and to be able… Read more »
Munich, 19 March 2018: This year, the solar module manufacturer LG Electronics once again presented BayWa r.e. with the “LG Sales Award” for Europe. In doing so, the company honoured BayWa r.e.’s extraordinary service in the sale of solar modules. BayWa r.e. had the largest share of sales of LG solar modules in Europe last… Read more »
Munich, 15 March 2018 – BayWa AG will, subject to final approval from the relevant antitrust authorities, enter the solar project business in the Netherlands through BayWa r.e.’s acquisition of a 70 per cent shareholding in a project pipeline of around 2 gigawatts (GW) of solar plants from a consortium of GroenLeven Group, the country’s leading… Read more »
Eco-friendly and economical EV charging utilizing grid and PV power MILAN, ITALY — March 13, 2018 — At MCE Italy, SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. (“SolarEdge”) (NASDAQ: SEDG), a global leader in smart energy, is launching the world’s first EV-charging inverter for the European market. By supplementing grid power with PV power, SolarEdge’s Mode 3 EV charger offers… Read more »
Lannion, France, March 13, 2018 – RECOM-SILLIA, a major solar module manufacturing company based in France, is awarded with the “Top PV Brand” seal by EuPD Research, Europe’s leading sustainability research firm. French installers and intermediaries have RECOM-SILLIA as their first choice for solar modules and they are highly likely to recommend RECOM-SILLIA to their… Read more »
he Company won all tenders for robotic cleaning technology issued by tier-1 players in 2017, maintaining leadership February XX, 2018 – Ecoppia, the world-leader in robotic, water-free photovoltaic solar panel cleaning solutions, announced today the completion of additional 3 deployments in the Bhadla region, which consists of a 2,255 MW Bhadla Solar Park, in Jodhpur,… Read more »
TEMPE, Ariz., March 13th, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Amtech Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASYS), a global supplier of production equipment and related supplies for the solar, semiconductor, and LED markets, today announced its solar subsidiary, SoLayTec B.V., has shipped a next generation solar Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) to an Asian customer. While the PV market is shifting… Read more »
CRONIMET Mining Power Solutions Namibia, a renewable energy company financing, developing, building and operating solar plants, completed its latest project by the end of January 2018. The plant built on O&L Leisure’s Mokuti Lodge has now officially been connected to the grid. The project is the second utility scale solar PV plant CRONIMET implemented within… Read more »
Zurich, Switzerland, March 7, 2018 – Innovative solution to help “Last Frontier” towns to lower costs and optimize the use of renewables for a sustainable future Deering and Buckland are two small villages in northwestern Alaska, with populations of 200 and 400 mostly indigenous Inupiaq people. For these residents, who rely heavily on fishing and… Read more »
Berlin, 7 March 2018 – During a recent three-day integration summit in Berlin with employees of both the Photovoltaik-Institut Berlin (PI Berlin) and SolarBuyer, the new structure for a single, global team was created. The merger of both companies is yielding benefits to customers looking for a service provider who can manage all aspects of… Read more »
(Wels, 06/03/2018) A regulated feed-in tariff for solar power has been in place in Vietnam since the end of 2017. For many private individuals and companies, this is an incentive to invest in renewable energies. As a specialist in solar technology, Fronius Solar Energy is supporting system operators in the country with high-quality, easy-to-install inverters… Read more »
meteocontrol: Grid stability thanks to accurate solar energy online feed in and forecasts Augsburg, March 06, 2018 – meteocontrol provides accurate online feed in and forecasts that make solar energy predictable for grid operators and energy trading companies around the world. The market leader for independent PV monitoring systems reliably forecasts and monitors the amount… Read more »
Meyer Burger Technology Ltd (SIX Swiss Exchange: MBTN) announced today that it has successfully concluded strategically important contracts with two existing customers in Asia for the delivery of its high precision industrial DW 288 Sapphire cutting platform for slicing and wafering applications in specialised non-PV technologies. Meyer Burger surpassed well-known regional and international competitors for… Read more »
Long-standing partnership between CERN and Pfeiffer Vacuum Vacuum technology for probing the fundamental structure of the universe HiPace turbopumps for the Large Hadron Collider Asslar, March 5, 2018. Pfeiffer Vacuum has received yet another major order for turbopumps and turbo pumping stations from CERN. CERN is situated in Geneva on the Franco-Swiss border and is… Read more »
ABB will supply an ABB Ability™ enabled microgrid and storage system to help integrate renewable solar and wind energy into the large tropical island’s power supply, reducing the need for fossil fuels and lowering the carbon footprint. ABB is a pioneer in microgrids, which because of their size and power are ideal for remote locations… Read more »
After the first successful project in Veendam, business continues in the Netherlands. Last year, Goldbeck Solar realized a third of Holland’s new ground mounted solar farm capacity. The reason for that was the suburban project in Veendam with its 15.5 MW, which was connected to the grid on December 31, 2017. The company from Hirschberg… Read more »
The global photovoltaics (PV) market is gathering speed: 2018 is likely to see annual PV deployment pass the 100 gigawatt (GW) mark for the first time, according to the latest analysis from GTM Research. Europe in particular is witnessing a new PV boom. In 2018, experts expect deployment to exceed 10 GW for the first… Read more »
he product innovation Lufft CHM8k complements the ceilometer family of the South German metrology specialist and is suitable for applications in which low-lying measurement ranges in up to eight kilometers are in focus. Application examples are security-related monitoring tasks on airports or in the offshore market, as well as in studies about the particle distribution… Read more »
Generating solar power at 2,300 metres above sea level (Wels, 22/02/2018) Fronius Solar Energy supports solar energy plants across the world. Their varied portfolio means the solar technology specialists always have the right solution to hand – perfectly tailored to country and user-specific requirements. Fronius recently installed an inverter for the photovoltaic system of an… Read more »
HERZELYA PITUACH, ISRAEL — February 22, 2018 —SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. (“SolarEdge”) (NASDAQ: SEDG), a global smart energy leader, is launching its StorEdge® Solution with power backup for European PV markets. Based on a single inverter SolarEdge’s StorEdge is a DC coupled storage solution that allows home owners to gain energy independence and stay powered even… Read more »
For the first time, WINAICO is awarded with the “Top PV Brand” seal in Germany. The basis for this award is the independent installer survey conducted by the market and economic research company EuPD Research. Bonn. The module manufacturer WINAICO was able to be highlighted among other manufacturers in the course of the annual “PV… Read more »
Next generation (Trio-50) smart inverters will provide higher flexibility and energy yields from a 1mw rooftop solar system ABB has provided the Swedish retailer IKEA with 20 of its innovative TRIO-50 solar inverters to power a rooftop solar system on its flagship store in Singapore, located in the eastern suburb of Tampines. The system is… Read more »
Neuchâtel, Febuary 2018 – INDEOtec SA (Switzerland) reports the successful completion of system acceptance tests for two of its customers, namely King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, and Fraunhofer ISE in Freiburg, Germany. The acceptance test milestones have been completed for both projects well in time; the comprehensive and partly… Read more »
▪ ENcome ranked No. 1 independent service provider in Europe ▪ ENcome ranked No. 2 independent service provider globally ▪ Assets under Management approximately 1.1 GW Klagenfurt am Wörthersee (13/02/2017): The very successful business development of ENcome has now also been confirmed by top ratings from independent industry experts. On the backdrop of the ongoing… Read more »
REC Group has awarded Meyer Burger a contract for the delivery and installation of its next generation SmartWire Connection Technology (SWCT™) as the manufacturing basis for its newest high efficiency solar modules. Meyer Burger Technology Ltd (SIX Swiss Exchange: MBTN) today announced the successful conclusion of an important contract with REC Group, the largest European… Read more »
The Italian manufacturer located in Catania specializes in the manufacture of thin-film solar cells and module production for solar parks. The innovative company uses high-efficiency heterojunction (HJT) solar cells. In tests for connecting the sensitive HJT solar cells, the teamtechnik Stringer TT1400 ECA delivered the best results. This system interconnects the cells using a new… Read more »
Conference on “QUALITY AND SUSTAINABILITY OF PV SYSTEMS” Industry leaders as well as top-ranking scientists, engineers and policy makers will discuss all aspects of PV quality Registration is now open #PVQualityMatters Brussels, 09 February 2018: The Quality and Sustainability of PV systems Conference organized by the European Technology and Innovation Platform for Photovoltaics (ETIP PV)… Read more »
Solar PV plants are getting bigger every day. For example, Elms Farm PV plant in Oxfordshire UK is a 30MW park, covering a surface of over 50Ha and containing more than 100,000 panels. To guarantee the energy output, malfunctioning panels need to be detected and replaced as quickly as possible. Today, infrared cameras on drones… Read more »
Commissioning of 14 MW solar plant in Emmen, in the province of Drenthe Additional service contract signed for operation and maintenanceKolitzheim (Germany), Emmen (Netherlands) – Yesterday the Dutch PV plant “Zonnepark Lange Runde” was officially inaugurated. BELECTRIC has built this PV plant with around 14 MWp installed capacity as an EPC (Engineering-Procurement-Construction) provider on behalf… Read more »
Photon Energy NV announces the expansion of its project pipeline by 5 additional projects in Fertőd as well as the acquisition of 5 project companies for the construction of 8 PV plants with a total installed capacity of 5.5 MWp near the North-Western Hungarian municipality of Tata. The announced new projects increase Photon Energy’s photovoltaic… Read more »
Leading renewable energy and infrastructure consultancy, Natural Power, has secured consent on behalf of Pany y Maen Wind Ltd for a seven-turbine site in Denbighshire, North Wales. The initial application was refused by Denbighshire County Council on the grounds of landscape and visual impact, impact on local dwellings and on the historic environment, however, the… Read more »
VARTA focuses on the connectivity of their energy storage sytems – the number of linkable devices is rising steadily. Smart Homes are no longer a vision of the future. Garages, shutters, heaters or electronic devices – nearly every household appliance can be controlled in real time via a smartphone. Smart Homes are everywhere – and… Read more »
SEATTLE, Washington – January 30, 2018 – APsystems joined the approved vendor list for Sunnova, a leading U.S. residential solar and energy storage service provider. The agreement brings APsystems advanced microinverter technology to Sunnova’s portfolio of top-tier, consumer-friendly solar services. Sunnova offers an array of solar lease, lease-to-own, and power-purchase options for customers all across… Read more »
ABB expands its solar inverter portfolio with the PVS-100/120 inverter. ABB’s PVS-100/120 range of cloud connected, three-phase string inverter solutions for cost efficient decentralized photovoltaic systems is available from today. As the solar market shifts towards new cost-effective platforms offering extreme high-power string inverters from 1,000 VDC up to 1,500 VDC, ABB PVS-100/120 platform maximizes… Read more »