Delta, a global leader in power and thermal management solutions, announced today its state-of-the-art PV inverter technology has been successfully integrated into a conglomerate of 126 solar PV power plants in Vandel, Denmark totalling 50.4MW A total of 1,008 units of Delta’s M50A series solar PV inverters, featuring leading efficiency of up to 98.6% and… Read more »
Munich, December 16, 2016 – Dr. Tobias Brandis (45) is taking over as president of the WACKER POLYSILICON division effective January 1, 2017. He succeeds Ewald Schindlbeck who, effective the same date, is retiring after 33 years at the company. Brandis was previously Chief Financial Officer of the Group’s US subsidiary Wacker Chemical Corporation. Dr…. Read more »
Aquila Capital has made an investment in the three-digit million euro range in a photovoltaic park in Tomakomai, Hokkaido in the north of Japan on behalf of institutional investors. It is the company’s second investment in the country. The park will be one of the largest PV plants in Japan with an integrated energy storage… Read more »
WITH AN ANNUAL CAPACITY OF 13,000 METRIC TONS, THE NEW PRODUCTION FACILITY FOR PYROGENIC SILICA SUPPLEMENTS THE CHARLESTON SITE’S VALUE CHAIN CONSTRUCTION WORK IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN IN SPRING OF 2017, WITH COMPLETION PLANNED FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 2019 CAPITAL EXPENDITURE OF SOME US$150 MILLION TO BE INVESTED AND AROUND 50 NEW JOBS TO… Read more »
Companies are invited to submit their applications by March 17 Munich, December 13, 2016 – Innovative storage solutions are driving the energy transition forward: The ees AWARD is set to be presented for the fourth time running at ees Europe, the continent’s largest exhibition for batteries and energy storage systems. The celebratory award ceremony will… Read more »
Applications can be submitted from January 2017 Munich, December 13, 2016 – In 2017, the Intersolar AWARD will pay tribute to innovative solutions in the solar industry for the 10th year in a row – true to the motto ‘Powering the Future with Innovation!’. Companies and project owners are invited to submit their entries for… Read more »
The Solar-Log™ makes the basic data from the PV plant available via Modbus TCP FREE. The building automation system can retrieve and process this data in real time. This allows the PV plant to be presented and analyzed together with other components of the building and to increase self-consumption with specific switching operations. If you… Read more »
Changzhou, China, Dec. 6, 2016 – TrinaBEST, a key global market Energy Storage System provider, announced today that it has signed an agreement to provide 1st shipment of 2MW/2MWh TrinaMega to EU. The project is mainly designed for Triad and Frequency Regulation due to the loss of inertia for the grid with the ramp up… Read more »
Strategic order for microCELL OTF high-throughput, high-productivity laser systems gains new customer for 3D-Micromac Chemnitz, Germany, December 12, 2016–3D-Micromac AG, a leading supplier of laser micromachining and roll-to-roll laser systems for the photovoltaic, medical device and electronics markets, today announced that it has received an order for three of its microCELL OTF laser systems from… Read more »
Talesun Solar, a global leader in photo-voltaic modules, solutions, and services, today announced that it has supplied 96 MW to ColGreen North Shore LLC – for its solar project in California, from Talesun Solar Thailand factory. In accordance with the ColGreen North Shore Contract issued thereunder, Talesun Solar will supply high-efficiency poly-crystalline modules approximately 96 MW in… Read more »
Leading electrical connector manufacturer Multi-Contact is to be known as Staubli Electrical Connectors from 1 January 2017. The company has been a member of the Staubli Group for almost 15 years and its worldwide name change will align its brand identity with the rest of the group. “As far as our customers and suppliers are… Read more »
Hefei, China / Dec 9, 2016 – Sungrow, the world’s leading PV inverter manufacturer, announced recently that its company testing center has been qualified by Underwriters Laboratories (UL), to participate in the UL Witness Testing Data Program (WTDP). This approval, together with those received from CSA, TÜV Rheinland, and TÜV Sud, has again proven Sungrow’s position… Read more »
SINGAPORE, DEC. 9, 2016 – Upsolar (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., a subsidiary of Upsolar, a leading provider of solar PV modules and services, Koine a design company specializing in floating technology, and Upsolar’s local installation partner CW, recently deployed a large floating PV system at Tengeh Reservoir in Singapore making it the world’s largest floating solar… Read more »
Effective immediately Heraeus Photovoltaics President Andreas Liebheit, has been nominated Vice Chairman of Asian Photovoltaic Industry Association (APVIA), one of the worldwide most influential associations of PV related enterprises, scientific institutions and related organizations in Asian countries. “It is my great honor to take the role of Vice Chairman of APVIA, a leading PV industrial… Read more »
The new rooftop PV system featuring Delta 50kW string inverters generates more solar electricity annually than required by almost all 7400 local inhabitants of the nearby city Port-Saint-Louis-Du-Rhône. On June 28 at the sea terminal of Port-Saint-Louis-Du-Rhône, Méditourbe, a regional peat and compost producer, and Cap Vert Energie, an independent renewable energy producer, inaugurated a… Read more »
Fremont, USA / Dec 7, 2016 – The Sacramento Kings have announced the completion of their 700kW rooftop array on top of their Golden 1 Center home arena. The venue will be the first indoor sports arena to have its entire energy supply sourced from solar, with a 700kW rooftop array, combined with energy supplied from… Read more »
Augsburg, 12/07/2016 – meteocontrol GmbH, a PV service provider headquartered in Augsburg, delivers plant owners and operators an efficient total package for the rapid, cost-efficient upgrade of the monitoring units in their PV systems. The company has provided proof of its expertise once again at the 3 MW solar park “Abuzaderas” operated by Tauber-Solar in… Read more »
85 percent of the O&M customers are satisfied or very satisfied with the on-the-spot operations and maintenance service Goldbeck Solar GmbH successfully completed its latest customer satisfaction survey. Almost all respondents were satisfied or very satisfied with the quality of the service provider. Especially the commercial processing and the maintenance technicians were rated positively (5.1… Read more »
Bangkok, Thailand / Dec 5, 2016 – Sungrow, the world’s largest PV inverter manufacturer, showcased its SG60KTL and SG50KTL-M model string inverters, at Solar & Off-grid Renewables | Solar Finance & Investment Southeast Asia 2016. Sungrow’s SG60KTL and SG50KTL-M string inverters—featuring 99% maximum efficiency, 4 MPPT’s, a 1.3 DC/AC ratio (up to 1.4 for the SG60KTL)—are specially… Read more »
SHANGHAI, November 28, 2016 / PRNewswire/ — JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (“JinkoSolar” or the “Company”) (NYSE: JKS), a global leader in the PV industry, today announced that its Shangrao production facility received IEC TS 62941 photovoltaic industry technical specification certification. IEC TS 62941 specification was launched in early 2016 and is administered by the International… Read more »
Project in Japan’s Hyogo Prefecture aims to revitalize community through renewable energy. Kyoto, Japan / Neuss, Germany, December 1, 2016. An enterprise jointly established by Kyocera Corporation, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc., Tokyo Century Corporation and Yonden Engineering Company, Incorporated today announced the completion of a 14.5-megawatt (MW) solar power plant in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. The… Read more »
Munich, November 30, 2016 – The success story of ees Europe continues: After experiencing very strong growth already this year, the organizers of Europe’s largest exhibition for batteries and energy storage systems are expecting an even more successful event in 2017. 80% of the exhibition space for the Munich exhibition, which is being held from… Read more »
Fronius, the global quality leader for solar energy, has carried out a very special project in Zwentendorf, Austria: a photovoltaic system has been installed on the site of a former nuclear power plant (NPP). Where once nuclear energy was to be produced, today clean, safe energy is generated from natural resources over an area of… Read more »
The global solar photovoltaic (PV) market is set to increase its installed capacity from around 225 Gigawatts (GW) in 2015 to 294.69 GW in 2016, and will see China remain the world’s largest market for annual solar PV installations, according to research and consulting firm GlobalData. The company’s latest report states that China installed 15.13… Read more »
Pamplona. 29th November 2016. Ingeteam is finalizing the launch of its new PV string inverter, which will make it possible to achieve a power output of 100 kWAC in a single, 75 kg unit. This inverter will be on show at the Solar-Tec fair in Cairo (Egypt) from the 4th to 6th December, and is… Read more »
The Spanish company Grupo Clavijo has supplied all of the fixed structures for the Oriana I and Oriana II projects, with capacities of 28.62 and 29.03 MWp respectively, in the municipality of Isabela, Puerto Rico, which are owned by Sonnedix and were each completed within five months. The dual-column structures used were installed with a… Read more »
The Iranian Deputy Minister for Energy, Dr. Sattar Mahmoudi, and the Managing Director of the Renewable Energy Organization of Iran (SUNA), Dr. Seyed Mohammad Sadeghzadeh, welcomed more than 400 attendees, twice as many as expected, at the first Intersolar Summit Iran in Tehran on November 15, 2016. Main discussions were about grid-integration solutions, financing and… Read more »
Ingeteam has recently launched to the market its new INGECON SUN CON40 power station and has now started assembling the first units for different utility-scale projects. This 40-foot-long ISO container is able to reach an output power of 4.92 MWAC, as it features three 1,500 VDC central inverters, each one providing 1,640 kW. This new… Read more »
Berlin, 23 November 2016. skytron® energy has been commissioned to provide monitoring and supervision technology for a 57.6 MWp solar power plant in Isabela, Puerto Rico. The plant named “Oriana” is owned by solar power producer and investor Sonnedix and is the largest plant of its kind in the Caribbean. Oriana has started producing clean… Read more »
The IndustrySkills 2016 in Basel was a major success for Meyer Burger with Fabien Gyger, an apprentice in automation mechanics, winning a gold medal and ensuring his spot at the WorldSkills 2017 in Abu Dhabi. The best young industrial talent in the MEM sector (machine, electronics and metal industries) competed for top medals in six… Read more »
Mobile solar containers with battery storage systems reduce energy costs by over 75% Wittenberg, Hainburg/Germany, 22.11.2016 – The German firm Tesvolt, which manufactures commercial storage systems, has entered into an exclusive cooperation agreement with the start-up Africa Green Tec. Tesvolt is supplying lithium storage systems for 50 solar containers with a total capacity of 3… Read more »
Marrakech, Berlin, November 21, 2016 – Dr. Paul Grunow, Co-founder and Board Member of the Photovoltaik Institut Berlin (PI Berlin) and Mr. Badr Ikken, General Director of l’Institut de Recherche en Energie Solaire et Energies Nouvelles (IRESEN) signed a cooperation agreement at the COP 22 climate summit in Marrakech, Morocco. The agreement defines a partnership… Read more »
Changzhou, China, Nov. 9, 2016 — TrinaBEST announced today that it has been awarded to design and construct a hybrid energy storage system in Nouakchott, Mauritania. This project is developed and operated by Damane Assurances Company. The project which encompasses 40kW solar system, 415kVA diesel generator system and 320 kWh energy storage system, is expected… Read more »
Topics surrounding the new energy world open up new market opportunities Munich, November 15, 2016 – The positive atmosphere of Intersolar Europe 2016 is still being felt, and the event is already providing more encouraging signs for the market. Almost 80% of the exhibition space at the world’s leading exhibition for the solar industry and… Read more »
• Pioneering project in the Jordanian banking sector under the “Power-Wheeling”-regulation Sulzemoos, November 15th, 2016 / Phoenix Solar Overseas GmbH, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Phoenix Solar AG (ISIN DE000A0BVU93), a leading international photovoltaic system integrator listed on the official market (Prime Standard) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and its partner Al Rokh, a… Read more »
Off-grid system safeguards only point of contact with the outside world from power cuts Frankfurt (Oder)/Germany, Dhaka/Bangladesh, 14.11.2016 – The solar module manufacturer Astronergy is equipping 8,500 post offices in Bangladesh with German-made photovoltaic modules. Four 250-watt modules on each post office, together with a battery storage device, will ensure a stable and independent power… Read more »