Press Releases
Operations And Maintenance Costs Continue To Skyrocket
A recent report commissioned into offshore wind energy found that the costs of keeping offshore turbines online ranges from €100,000 to €300,000 per year Vs an allocated €45,000 per turbine for onshore portfolios. With the latest round 3 projects typically 60km+ from shore, reliability, optimisation and cost reduction are becoming top priority for wind farm… Read more »
Dow Secures New Contractsto Supply Dowtherm A Heat Transfer Fluid In 2012
The Dow Chemical Company today announced it has been awarded additional contracts to supply DOWTHERMTM A heat transfer fluid to key projects in the Concentrated Solar Power market. These recent projects, which include Termosolar Guzman, Astexol-2 (Elecnor), Aste 1A (Elecnor), Aste 1B (Elecnor), Extresol 3,Orellana, Africa Solar and Termosolar Borges are slated to begin in… Read more »
DuPont & Burkle Speed PV Encapsulation
DuPont Photovoltaic Encapsulants and Bürkle North America, Inc., a wholly-owned division of Bürkle GmbH, of Freudenstadt, Germany, announce that they have worked together to speed up module lamination with the Bürkle Ypsator® multi-opening, 3-stage thin-film solar module laminating line. Using new DuPontTM PV5400 Series encapsulant, an Ypsator® laminator can produce up to twice as many… Read more »
Interconnected European offshore grid will save billions of Euros
New results on offshore electricity grid infrastructure in Europe: the EU “OffshoreGrid” project analysis reveals tremendous cost saving potential. Report published in Brussels today. Offshore grids, connecting North and Baltic Sea wind farms to electricity consumers, will be substantially cheaper to build than expected. Building “hub connections” at sea instead of using cables to connect… Read more »
Changes to the Management Board of SOLON SE
At its meeting today, the SOLON SE Supervisory Board approved changes to the composition of the company’s Management Board. Dr. Walter Bickel is to join the board as CRO with immediate effect. He will be responsible for implementing the current restructuring program. Dr. Bickel and his team from Alvarez & Marsal have been advising SOLON… Read more »
Meyer Burger Technology Ltd Dr Dietmar Roth Member Of The Companys Board Of Directors
Meyer Burger Technology Ltd (SIX Swiss Exchange: MBTN) announced today that Dr Dietmar Roth will assume office as a member of the Board of Directors of Meyer Burger Technology Ltd on 3 October 2011. The General Meeting of Shareholders held on 21 April 2011 had already elected Dr Dietmar Roth as a member of the… Read more »
Enecsys selects Ember’s ZigBee technology to help optimize solar PV system performance
Enecsys Limited has teamed with Ember to bring wireless ZigBee communications to roof-top solar photovoltaic (PV) systems so that households and businesses can better monitor and optimize their systems’ performance. Enecsys has integrated Ember’s ZigBee system-on-chip (SoC) and ZigBee PRO software into its SMI series of micro inverters, which convert theDC output of solar panels into AC for connection… Read more »
MECASOLAR supplies 11.5MW to photovoltaic plants in Greece, Great Britain, Italy, Australia, and France
MECASOLAR, a multinational company specialising in the design, manufacture, and sale of solar trackers, fixed structures, and foundation screws, has recently completed the supply of 6.4MW in solar trackers and 5.1MW in fixed structures for PV solar energy projects in Greece, Great Britain, Italy, Australia, Spain, and France, among other countries. In Great Britain, MECASOLAR… Read more »
German consortium holds inauguration ceremony for the Andasol 3 solar thermal power plant
Today saw the festive inauguration of the Andasol 3 solar thermal power plant by a consortium of five German companies in the Spanish province of Granada. The completion of the third Andasol power plant on a site measuring some two square kilometres has meant the creation of the largest European solar power plant – located… Read more »
Sierra Expands Liquid Flow Solutions with New Ultrasonic Flow Meter Models
Sierra Instruments has just announced the introduction of a brand new lineup of their popular transit-time ultrasonic flow meters. The lineup now includes improved next generation Innova-Sonic® 205i and portable 210i models. New to the offering, the Innova-Sonic® 203 has been optimized for customers still looking for good performance, but needing a lower cost, less… Read more »
