Press Releases
Wärtsilä to supply solar PV plant to Burkina Faso – creating Africa’s largest engine-solar PV hybrid power plant
Technology group Wärtsilä will supply a 15 MWp solar PV power plant to Essakane Solar SAS in Burkina Faso. The solar PV plant will be built next to a 55 MW Wärtsilä power plant currently running on heavy fuel oil. The solar PV plant and the engine power plant will be controlled and operated in… Read more »
SgurrEnergy secures Race Bank construction and operations monitoring contract
SgurrEnergy, part of Wood Group’s clean energy business, has been awarded the construction monitoring contract of one of the UK’s largest offshore wind farms, which will be followed by a 15-year operations monitoring phase. Located almost 17 miles off the Norfolk coast, Race Bank Wind Farm’s offshore array will comprise of 91 state-of-the-art Siemens 6.3MW… Read more »
France: Deutsche Windtechnik has been awarded contracts to provide maintenance for Vestas V90 turbines for the first time
In June 2017, Deutsche Windtechnik’s French unit will begin providing maintenance for turbines from Vestas for the first time. The 22 V90 turbines generate a total output of 44 MW. The contracts are for full maintenance. The agreement will initially run for four years, but there is an option to extend it. Trinational cooperation is… Read more »
Altitec Boosts Blade Service Capacity With Investment In Technician Team Leaders
Global blade technician leaders gather at the Altitec Summit to review cutting edge blade repair skills and coordinated approaches to maintenance, in response to growing industry demand for blade services London, 22 March 2017 – Blade inspection and repair provider Altitec hosts its blade supervisor summit near Berlin this week, with discussion focused on the… Read more »
SOLV deploys QOS Energy’s O&M management platform to improve performance across 1 GW solar portfolio
San Francisco, USA, March 22, 2017. SOLV, the leading independent solar O&M service provider in America and a division of EPC contractor Swinerton Renewable Energy, has begun deployment of QOS Energy’s Qantum® software to monitor and support the operations and maintenance of more than 1 GW of solar PV plants in the United-states. Qantum® is… Read more »
Meyer Burger – Publication of fiscal year 2016 results
• Incoming orders increased by +9% to CHF 455.6 million • Net sales rose by +40% to CHF 453.1 million • EBITDA reached CHF 10.5 million, turnaround confirmed • Cash flow from operating activities improved by CHF 54.5 million to CHF +2.6 million • Recapitalisation programme successfully completed • Balance sheet structure substantially strengthened through… Read more »
EES EUROPE CONFERENCE DISCUSSES THE MARKET FOR DOMESTIC, COMMERCIAL AND LARGE-SCALE STORAGE SYSTEMS
Munich, March 21, 2017 – The energy storage industry is evolving: ees Europe, the continent’s largest exhibition for batteries and energy storage systems, is setting a new exhibitor record, an achievement which is also being felt at the accompanying ees Europe Conference. After all, when interesting energy topics draw a broad range of exhibitors and… Read more »
Photovoltaics in South Africa: meteocontrol supplies monitoring system
Augsburg, 3/21/2017 – South Africa is increasingly focusing on renewable energies. By 2020, solar energy is forecast to expand to over 5.7 gigawatts. meteocontrol GmbH, one of the world’s leading companies for PV monitoring, offers a manufacturer-independent monitoring and control system for solar systems of all sizes with the blue’Log X series and the VCOM… Read more »
Alencon Systems Gains ETL Certification for SPOT Family of PV Optimizers
Hatboro, PA – Alencon Systems LLC today announced that it has successfully gained ETL certification for its newest SPOT – String Power Optimizer and Transmitter – family of products. The ETL Mark from Intertek is proof that the product has been tested by an independent laboratory and meets the requirements of the applicable product safety… Read more »
Phoenix Solar has appointed new Senior Vice President in its Asia/Pacific business region
Mark Argar joins Phoenix Solar from Bechtel Eric Fleckten to serve as Senior Vice President Business Development Mark Argar (52) has been appointed Phoenix Solar Senior Vice President for Asia/Pacific. Mark joins Phoenix from Bechtel Infrastructure, leaving his role as Vice-President for Business Development for Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Bechtel he was CEO of… Read more »
