Press Releases
Agreement On Wreck Removal Mv Flinterstar Off Belgian Coast
Flinterstar III BV, the owner of the Dutch freighter MV FLINTERSTAR, has entered into a contract with a consortium of Belgian marine contractors to remove the wreck of the vessel which sank in the North Sea off the coast of Zeebrugge following a collision last October. The consortium will be headed by SCALDIS, a joint… Read more »
RENTEL NV announces turbine supply & maintenance agreement: 309MW offshore wind project in the Belgian North Sea
OSTEND (BE) | Today, RENTEL NV announced it has signed a Turbine Supply Agreement (TSA) with SIEMENS for the supply and installation of 42 Siemens offshore wind turbines of the D7 platform and a 17-year Service and Maintenance Agreement (SMA). After a competitive process that started at the end of 2013, Rentel has chosen for… Read more »
Large-scale Photovoltaic Power Plants – Intersolar Europe Presents The Latest Trends From Financing To Operation
Munich, April 21, 2016 – Photovoltaics (PV) is experiencing a worldwide boom, spurred on by large-scale PV power plants with an output range of 60 MW and above in particular. This year’s Intersolar Europe is set to showcase the latest technologies and most exciting trends – right at the heart of the most important market:… Read more »
Lightsource Adds New Talent to its Solar O&M Academy
Lightsource Renewable Energy, Europe’s leading solar energy company, is searching for new talent to join its in-house solar Operations and Maintenance (O&M) induction academy, following the successful completion of its first batch of recruits. Solar O&M in the UK is moving into new territory, with many EPC warranty periods now coming to an end, and… Read more »
Senvion wins first wind farm projects in Chile totalling 300 MW
Hamburg/Santiago de Chile: Senvion, a leading global manufacturer of wind turbines, has concluded a contract with global wind and solar company Mainstream Renewable Power for the supply and installation of 93 turbines for two wind farm projects in Chile totalling 300 megawatts (MW). The contracts are currently still under conditions precedent. The Sarco and Aurora… Read more »
Lufft introduces new visibility sensor VS2k and launches MARWIS 2.0
Two innovations are to supplement the product portfolio of G. Lufft, the sensor manufacturer based at Fellbach. The new VS2k-UMB visibility sensor will replace the VS20-UMB optical sensor from the middle of May. The Lufft-UMB VS2k is the first product of an entire series in this segment. The award-winning technology among the Lufft sensors, the… Read more »
RNRG and Ventus install Wind Iris Lidar at first-ever Uruguayan wind farm to boost turbine performance
Hinesburg, VT, USA, April 20th 2016 – RNRG and Ventus Ingenieria have announced the acquisition and installation of a Wind Iris nacelle-mounted Lidar at the 20MW Caracoles wind farm in Uruguay. The Wind Iris will monitor turbine performance and offer optimization solutions for the project. Located in the Sierra de Caracoles in the Maldonado region,… Read more »
Riding Solar Demand, Ecoppia Opens Mass Production Facility in India
Riding a wave of increased demand for their technology, Ecoppia – developer, designer, and producer of a pioneering robotic cleaning technology for utility-scale solar sites – today inked a deal to begin mass producing their E4 robots at a new, state-of-the-art facility near Chennai, India. With the rapid growth of the solar industry in India,… Read more »
Martifer Solar Signs Mou For 25mw Project In Egypt
• Martifer Solar and NREA (National Renewable Energy Authority) have signed a MoU for availing a 60,26ha land plot in Minya to build a 25MWn solar plant • The RA SOLAR consortium, comprised of EEC Group and Martifer Solar, was qualified by the Egyptian authorities under the Feed-in-Tariff program Martifer Solar, a subsidiary of Martifer… Read more »
Plant-for-the-Planet Academy in Lemgo: Fifty-six motivated children are interested in climate justice and planting 100 trees
The academy received support from the Solare Datensysteme GmbH (SDS) corporation. On 12 March 2016, the Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation organized one of their numerous academies in Lemgo, Germany. Fifty-six motivated children from 17 different schools met at the Karla-Raveh Comprehensive School to learn about causes and consequences of the climate crisis, being a world citizen and… Read more »
