Press Releases
Slovakia: Conergy supplies 700 kilowatt solar power plants for 14 school roofs
750,000 kilowatt hours of solar power for energy transition in classrooms in southern Slovakia Only a few weeks after the major Conergy project at numerous Hawaiian schools, the Hamburg system supplier has now secured another order in the area of green education. Conergy will be equipping fourteen schools and municipal buildings with solar plants with… Read more »
EDWARDS ANNOUNCES NEW RANGE OF LOADLOCK VACUUM PUMPS FOR FLAT PANEL DISPLAY & SOLAR MANUFACTURING
New dry pumps cover the entire range of pump down requirements encountered in the FPD and solar markets Edwards, a leading manufacturer of sophisticated vacuum products and abatement systems and a leading provider of related value-added services, today introduced the new iXL250Q and iXL750Q dry pumps. The new pumps, with the addition of the already-existing… Read more »
Offshore wind: AREVA continues development of the French supply chain
Following more than one hundred regional meetings and a first seminar last March, AREVA held on June 20 a second “Supplier Day” in Bremerhaven, Germany, dedicated to French companies, future partners with the offshore wind supply chain. This partnership initiative is consistent with AREVA’s strategy of leveraging local skills to build up a new national… Read more »
27th EU PVSEC publishes Programme of Parallel Events complementing the EU PVSEC Conference Programme
• 9th European PV Industry Summit: Challenges and Opportunities for the PV Industry as it Moves towards High Penetration• Investors Day: Risk Mitigation in PV Investments – the Key to Sustainable Market Development• Assigning a fair Price to PV Electricity• Photovoltaics, Forms, Landscapes: How to Use PV for Shaping Nearly Zero Energy Communities• PV Production… Read more »
SERIS Orders Lab-to-Fab Tool From SoLayTec
The Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) has purchased a Process Development Tool (PDT) from SoLayTec to raise efficiencies for industrial solar cell designs. By sealing this contract, SoLayTec’s ultrafast atomic layer deposition (ALD) of aluminium oxide Al2O3 will be applied at a large selection of research institutes in the world of PV industry…. Read more »
Storage Demanded to Box Up Success of Solar Power Industry
More research is desperately needed to discover new ways of harnessing the sun’s power, as solar energy storage promises to revolutionize renewables in the modern world, says a new report by energy experts GlobalData. The new report* shows that solar energy storage will increase grid efficiency, eliminate energy wastage and increase the reliability of solar… Read more »
Megger pinpoints cable faults with accuracy and ease
Fast, convenient and reliable location of faults on underground power cables is offered by the new MPP2000 pinpointer from Megger. This compact handheld instrument, which is supplied with a lightweight combined microphone and electromagnetic probe, incorporates a large backlit colour display that not only shows magnetic and acoustic signal levels but also the relative distance… Read more »
Transmission Industry Switches Gear
Demands to incorporate renewable power sources into the transmission network will drive the switchgear industry, while efforts to reduce power transmission losses and connect the increasingly electrified world continue, says a new report by technology experts GlobalData. The new report* states that expansion and upgrades within the global transmission network will drive the high voltage… Read more »
Moventas new up-tower repair service to significantly lower wind farm costs
Top up-tower service for both Moventas and competitor models Moventas, one of the world’s leading wind gear manufacturers, is expanding its up-tower service globally after a successful track record in North America. Up-tower repair significantly lowers wind farm O&M costs, hence making wind power even more competitive than before. Developed by Moventas’ US-based engineers and… Read more »
10.5 MW: Conergy builds the Saarland’s largest solar park on historic estate
Hot on the heels of the opening of its 8 megawatt solar park in Grimmen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Conergy announces a new project in the Saarland region. The 10.5 megawatt power plant that the system supplier is building on the historic Linslerhof estate, owned by the von Boch investor family, will be the Saarland’s biggest… Read more »