Press Releases
Sandvik Launches Sanicro® 35 Super-Austenitic Grade
Breakthrough New Alloy Bridges Gaps to New Opportunities SANDVIKEN, August 25, 2020 – Sandvik, a developer and producer of advanced stainless steels, special alloys, titanium and other high-performance materials, has launched Sanicro® 35, a unique grade that bridges the performance gap between stainless steels and higher cost nickel alloys. Sanicro® 35, the latest addition to… Read more »
Nordex Group receives order for delivery of 27.7 MW in Brazil
Hamburg, 25 August 2020. Nordex Group has again received an order for AW132/3465 turbines from Brazil. For its new customer TODA Energia do Brasil, the manufacturer will supply eight turbines for a 27.7 MW wind farm. The project is located in the French developer Voltalia’s 2.4 GW Serra Branca wind and solar cluster in north-eastern… Read more »
Solar power responsible for paying 20% of total FCAS regulation costs
Latest research from Cornwall Insight Australia shows that solar farms are responsible for paying somewhere between 10%-20% of total regulation FCAS costs in any given month (see Figure 1). This is disproportionate to solar’s energy generation in the NEM, which in FY20, was only ~3%. In contrast, wind is far more proportionate with cumulative FCAS… Read more »
CAPTEC 2410-14: Saftey and Flexibility with the new DC UPS from J. Schneider Elektrotechnik
The latest DC UPS system of the German manufacturer provides the advantage of the choice between a longer buffer time or a longer service life for the safe supply of the customer’s machinery Voltage fluctuations and voltage dips can have serious consequences for machines and systems. Losses of data and an uncontrolled process stop result… Read more »
Cargostore Worldwide Announces Appointment of Operations Director Sharon Keverne
Cargostore Worldwide, London based global supplier of DNV and ISO certified containers and specialist equipment announces the appointment of Sharon Keverne to the newly created role of Operations Director. Sharon brings with her 20+ years of valuable experience having worked in several companies across the oil and gas, shipping and freight forwarding industries. The most… Read more »
Foresight acquires 94MW windfarm portfolio in Spain from wpd AG
Second acquisition made by €340 million Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners Operational plants increase Foresight’s European wind portfolio to 800MW Foresight has over 2.5GW of renewable generating capacity from its Solar, Wind and Bioenergy portfolios across Europe and Australia LONDON, 24 August 2020: Foresight Group LLP (“Foresight”), the leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager,… Read more »
CLIR TARGETS ‘CULTURE OF INNOVATION’ ACROSS GLOBAL RENEWABLE ENERGY MARKETS WITH NEW SENIOR HIRE
Clir Renewables appoints Tim Reitsma as Director of People and Culture as the firm outlines plans for growth in solar and Asian markets Vancouver, 24 August 2020 – Clir Renewables, the leading provider of performance assessment software for renewable energy, today announces the appointment of Tim Reitsma as Director of People and Culture. Formerly of… Read more »
Keeping the power plants online
Sulzer meets surging demand for boiler feed pumps in Argentina Over the past 18 months, Sulzer has delivered a record of 70 large-capacity boiler feed pumps to customers in Argentina. The projects involved multiple customers and pumps were supplied for both new-build power stations and upgrade projects across the country. Sulzer was able to meet… Read more »
First Solar Power Plant in Chile is World’s First to Deliver Grid Services
Chile’s ISO licenses Luz del Norte power plant to supply ancillary services TEMPE, Ariz., August 20, 2020 – First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) today announced that its 141-megawatt (MW)AC Luz del Norte photovoltaic (PV) power plant is the world’s first known utility-scale solar facility licensed to deliver ancillary grid services commercially. Chile’s independent system operator… Read more »
Global cooperation: ecoligo relies on meteocontrol’s blue’Log X-Series for PV monitoring
meteocontrol and ecoligo complete their first PV project in Vietnam Augsburg/Germany, August 20th, 2020 – meteocontrol GmbH, the photovoltaic monitoring specialist, and ecoligo GmbH, a PV project developer for companies in developing and emerging countries, are cooperating on a global scale: following joint projects in Africa and South America, for the first time the cooperation… Read more »
