Press Releases
EU wind power will triple by 2020
The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) today published its scenarios for onshore and offshore wind power deployment in the EU, ahead of the European Commission’s Energy Roadmap 2050, due to be published later this year. “Wind energy will more than triple its power output by 2020 with 194 billion Euros invested in European onshore and… Read more »
Meyer Burger Public Tender Offer Of Roth Rau Ag Antitrust Clearance By The Chinese Antitrust Authorities Received
– Final condition of the public tender offer fulfilled– Settlement of the tender offer and payment of the offer price anticipated to be effected on 9 August 2011 Meyer Burger Technology Ltd [Ticker: MBTN] published today that the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China confirmed in writing the antitrust clearance of the… Read more »
Intersolar India prepares for round three
This December the international solar industry is congregating at Intersolar India for third time in a row. From December 14-16, 2011, Hall 1 of the Bombay Exhibition Centre (BEC) in Mumbai, India is being dedi-cated to solar power. There, 250 expected exhibitors are setting up their exhibits across 20,000 square meters of exhibition space to… Read more »
Critical Software signs contract with Brazilian AES Tietê
Critical Software announces that it has secured a contract for the development and integration of IT systems for AES Tietê, a subsidiary of the Brazilian Energy Company. The project is to provide a critical asset management system that will support the business activities of AES Tietê, which is primarily the production and distribution of sustainable… Read more »
Financing completed for AREVA’s Global Tech I project
The offshore wind project Global Tech I, for which AREVA is supplier of 80 M5000 turbines, has finalized raising debt financing for an amount in excess of 1 B€. This is the second AREVA-powered offshore wind project to achieve this and a new demonstration of the confidence of the financial community in the reliability of… Read more »
Onshore Conflict Increases Attractions of Offshore Windfarms
Reports that almost half of planning applications for onshore wind farms are being rejected will increase the attractions of building offshore wind farms. Figures obtained by legal firm McGrigors from the Department of Energy and Climate Change under freedom of information legislation show that during the last five years the rejection rate for wind farm… Read more »
EU offshore wind power shows solid growth in first half of 2011
The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) today published offshore wind energy statistics for the first half year of 2011, showing a comfortable 4.5% increase in installations of offshore capacity compared to the first half of 2010. 101 new offshore wind turbines, with a total capacity of 348 Megawatt (MW), were connected to the power grids… Read more »
DuPont Expands in Solar Energy with Acquisition of Innovalight
Technology to Enhance Solar Cell Efficiency; Potential to Accelerate Adoption of Solar Energy DuPont today announced that it has acquired Innovalight, Inc., a company specializing in advanced silicon inks and process technologies that increase the efficiency of crystalline silicon solar cells. The acquisition further strengthens DuPont’s position as a clear leader in materials for the… Read more »
MAGE SOLAR delivers photovoltaic modules for the logistics centre and supermarkets of EDEKA Nord
EDEKA Nord – a German wholesale company – brings a 300-kWp installation into operation at the Neumünster logistics base in Schleswig-Holstein. More than 1.600 monocrystalline MAGE POWERTEC PLUS modules will be producing circa 270.000 kWh of environmentally friendly electricity per year. MAGE SOLAR AG, part of the globally operating MAGE GROUP, has equipped a total… Read more »
Top of the tree: SolarMax MT series awarded two "very good" marks at the Photon test
The trade publication Photon tested the SolarMax 13MT three-phase string inverter and awarded it with the prized “very good” seal of approval for its efficiency. The Sputnik Engineering AG device functions “not only precisely, but also efficiently” with MPP tracking and, according to the editors, also achieved other “very good results”. This means that the… Read more »
