Hamburg, 30 November 2016. The Nordex Group has received the first order for the installation of its second turbine introduced in September. The manufacturer will be setting up its light-wind N131/3600 turbine in December for GP Joule, a project developer. The site of the project is located near Husum at Windtestfeld Nord in Schleswig-Holstein, where… Read more »
Munich, November 30, 2016 – The success story of ees Europe continues: After experiencing very strong growth already this year, the organizers of Europe’s largest exhibition for batteries and energy storage systems are expecting an even more successful event in 2017. 80% of the exhibition space for the Munich exhibition, which is being held from… Read more »
Vattenfall, developer of EOWDC, to move in next year Vattenfall has signed leases totalling 24 years with Aberdeen Harbour Board, becoming the first offshore wind operator to invest long term in the port’s facilities. The company is set to establish its construction team’s base within the Regent Centre by next month and also move into… Read more »
Fronius, the global quality leader for solar energy, has carried out a very special project in Zwentendorf, Austria: a photovoltaic system has been installed on the site of a former nuclear power plant (NPP). Where once nuclear energy was to be produced, today clean, safe energy is generated from natural resources over an area of… Read more »
The next steps in the restructuring plan are the implementation of bondholder voting and preparation of an insolvency plan in protective shield proceedings. Frankfurt – Global law firm Dentons has advised 3W Power S.A. and AEG Power Solutions GmbH on the development and preparation of a new restructuring plan and agreement with key bondholders. The… Read more »
Greensolver advised BKW on purchase of 49MW of French wind assets Greensolver the independent technical expert for wind & solar asset has been selected by Swiss utility BKW to provide a technical due diligence on their recent acquisition of four French assets located across France. Greensolver advised the Swiss utility on one operating wind farm… Read more »
The global solar photovoltaic (PV) market is set to increase its installed capacity from around 225 Gigawatts (GW) in 2015 to 294.69 GW in 2016, and will see China remain the world’s largest market for annual solar PV installations, according to research and consulting firm GlobalData. The company’s latest report states that China installed 15.13… Read more »
CARGOTEC CORPORATION, PRESS RELEASE, 29 NOVEMBER 2016 AT 9.30 AM EET MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has won davit orders for two low-emission 81m service operation vessels (SOVs) designed to act as ‘mother-ships’ for wind turbine technicians. The contracts have been placed by Spanish shipyard GONDAN, responsible for the construction of the SOVs. The order was… Read more »
Pamplona. 29th November 2016. Ingeteam is finalizing the launch of its new PV string inverter, which will make it possible to achieve a power output of 100 kWAC in a single, 75 kg unit. This inverter will be on show at the Solar-Tec fair in Cairo (Egypt) from the 4th to 6th December, and is… Read more »
The Spanish company Grupo Clavijo has supplied all of the fixed structures for the Oriana I and Oriana II projects, with capacities of 28.62 and 29.03 MWp respectively, in the municipality of Isabela, Puerto Rico, which are owned by Sonnedix and were each completed within five months. The dual-column structures used were installed with a… Read more »
Seaway Heavy Lifting has been awarded a contract by Trianel Windkraftwerk Borkum II GmbH & Co. KG. The scope of work consists of the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of the turbine foundations for the Trianel Windpark Borkum II wind farm on the German continental shelf. The award is still subject to financial close… Read more »
CWind, a leading provider of services to the offshore wind industry, announced today that they have been appointed by Geosea, offshore marine engineers, to undertake required secondary works at the Galloper Offshore Wind Farm for a period of approximately six months starting in December 2016. This involves a wide range of tasks including, paint repairs,… Read more »
Hamburg, 25 November 2016. Business in Finland continues to grow for Nordex: a major customer, ABO Wind, has ordered nine turbines from the 3 MW series with a rotor diameter of 131 metres through its Finnish subsidiary, ABO Wind Oy. Preparations for installation of the N131/3000 machines for a wind farm in western Finland are… Read more »
The Iranian Deputy Minister for Energy, Dr. Sattar Mahmoudi, and the Managing Director of the Renewable Energy Organization of Iran (SUNA), Dr. Seyed Mohammad Sadeghzadeh, welcomed more than 400 attendees, twice as many as expected, at the first Intersolar Summit Iran in Tehran on November 15, 2016. Main discussions were about grid-integration solutions, financing and… Read more »
Jan De Nul Group wins two DPC Innovation Awards, one for Project Design in Open Water (trenching tools Sunfish and Moonfish) and another for Project Design in Inland Dredging (engineered sediments for flood control dyke construction). The Dredging & Port Construction Innovation Awards 2016 are one of the industry’s most prestigious awards. The awards are… Read more »
• Milestone for new offshore wind turbine manufacturing plant • Political leaders and company representatives on hand to celebrate • First suppliers establishing themselves locally Today Siemens celebrated the topping out ceremony for its new wind turbine manufacturing facility in Cuxhaven, Germany, attended by Parliamentary State Secretary Enak Ferlemann, Lower Saxony’s State Secretary of Economic… Read more »
Flywheel Energy Storage device DuraStor® to be installed near Paris EDF and STORNETIC have launched a joint project on advanced smart grid storage solutions. The project serves to assess the performance of flywheel energy storage technology facing the requirements of a modern grid environment. As part of the collaboration, STORNETIC is going to deliver a… Read more »
With a three-year framework agreement ZITON will become main partner to provide jack-up vessels for major component replacement at Vattenfall’s offshore wind farms. Both companies agree that this is an important step in the right direction for a more efficient and cost reducing offshore wind market. To both Vattenfall and ZITON the key to offshore… Read more »
Ingeteam has recently launched to the market its new INGECON SUN CON40 power station and has now started assembling the first units for different utility-scale projects. This 40-foot-long ISO container is able to reach an output power of 4.92 MWAC, as it features three 1,500 VDC central inverters, each one providing 1,640 kW. This new… Read more »
Rotor blade manufacturing, master plug and mould design company to augment in-house blade development and manufacturing Hamburg: Senvion, a leading global manufacturer of wind turbines, has acquired 100 per cent of the shares of EUROS Group* in an all-cash transaction, just three months after announcing the acquisition of Kenersys assets in India. EUROS, located in… Read more »
Berlin, 23 November 2016. skytron® energy has been commissioned to provide monitoring and supervision technology for a 57.6 MWp solar power plant in Isabela, Puerto Rico. The plant named “Oriana” is owned by solar power producer and investor Sonnedix and is the largest plant of its kind in the Caribbean. Oriana has started producing clean… Read more »
The IndustrySkills 2016 in Basel was a major success for Meyer Burger with Fabien Gyger, an apprentice in automation mechanics, winning a gold medal and ensuring his spot at the WorldSkills 2017 in Abu Dhabi. The best young industrial talent in the MEM sector (machine, electronics and metal industries) competed for top medals in six… Read more »
Mobile solar containers with battery storage systems reduce energy costs by over 75% Wittenberg, Hainburg/Germany, 22.11.2016 – The German firm Tesvolt, which manufactures commercial storage systems, has entered into an exclusive cooperation agreement with the start-up Africa Green Tec. Tesvolt is supplying lithium storage systems for 50 solar containers with a total capacity of 3… Read more »
Marrakech, Berlin, November 21, 2016 – Dr. Paul Grunow, Co-founder and Board Member of the Photovoltaik Institut Berlin (PI Berlin) and Mr. Badr Ikken, General Director of l’Institut de Recherche en Energie Solaire et Energies Nouvelles (IRESEN) signed a cooperation agreement at the COP 22 climate summit in Marrakech, Morocco. The agreement defines a partnership… Read more »
Changzhou, China, Nov. 9, 2016 — TrinaBEST announced today that it has been awarded to design and construct a hybrid energy storage system in Nouakchott, Mauritania. This project is developed and operated by Damane Assurances Company. The project which encompasses 40kW solar system, 415kVA diesel generator system and 320 kWh energy storage system, is expected… Read more »
PES talks with Billy Stevenson, Managing Director, Deutsche Windtechnik Ltd, to find out about the growth in wind power in the UK and the prospects for the future. PES: Welcome to PES Wind magazine. Thanks for talking with us. Would you like to begin by explaining a little about the background of your organisation and… Read more »
LM Wind Power announces strategic collaboration with Chinese wind turbine manufacturer CSIC (China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation) HZ Windpower to deliver blades for its newly launched H151-5.0MW platform. The blades will be delivered from LM Wind Power’s plant in Jiangyin. The first sets are expected to be installed in Q4 2016 at Rudong wind farm. The… Read more »
Hamburg, 16 November 2016. Just a short time after the market launch of the N117/3600, in September 2016 the Nordex Group received the first order from WIND-consult Measuring Company for a project with the new turbine for IEC-2 sites. In November the first N117/3600 is to start operation in Bargeshagen, near Rostock. With a wind… Read more »
Oldenburg (Oldenburg/Germany) This year german business magazine FOCUS ® and Statista present again the fastest growing companies in Germany and honor the achievements of these players for the economy and society. The winning companies from various fields of industry act as innovators and thus secure the long term growth in Germany, according to Focus special…. Read more »
SeaRenergy and SMC will provide a broad range of offshore support services to Veja Mate. The services will start 01. November 2016 with the preparation of the foundations and transition pieces for the installation of the towers and turbines and has an initial term of 150 days. The scope of work includes: Full project management… Read more »
Topics surrounding the new energy world open up new market opportunities Munich, November 15, 2016 – The positive atmosphere of Intersolar Europe 2016 is still being felt, and the event is already providing more encouraging signs for the market. Almost 80% of the exhibition space at the world’s leading exhibition for the solar industry and… Read more »
Studies by leading wind energy consultant demonstrate excellent consistency and performance Vaisala, a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement, has released two independent verification studies conducted by Ecofys, an international consultancy based in Europe recently acquired by Navigant. The studies used two production Triton units deployed from March 5 – May 29, 2015 and… Read more »
– Sequential Q3 revenues up 15.6 percent to EUR 584m, adjusted EBITDA margin of 10.3 percent – Market expansion and conversion of conditional orders as catalyst for future growth – On track to meet full year guidance of EUR 2.25-2.3bn Hamburg: Senvion, a leading global manufacturer of wind turbines, has increased its revenues to EUR… Read more »
€3mn fund dedicated to researching the environmental impact of offshore wind Vattenfall, the Swedish energy company, has shortlisted projects for a €3mn scientific research programme to understand the environmental impacts of offshore wind. Sixteen projects have been shortlisted from an extensive list of almost 100 original applications by a specialist scientific panel comprised of environmental… Read more »
• Pioneering project in the Jordanian banking sector under the “Power-Wheeling”-regulation Sulzemoos, November 15th, 2016 / Phoenix Solar Overseas GmbH, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Phoenix Solar AG (ISIN DE000A0BVU93), a leading international photovoltaic system integrator listed on the official market (Prime Standard) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and its partner Al Rokh, a… Read more »
The Damen InvaSave ballast water treatment (BWT) system has won the Innovation in Port Equipment award at the inaugural IHS DPC Dredging and Port Construction Innovation Awards. These took place on the evening of the 10th of November in the Marriott Hotel in Mayfair, London. Damen InvaSave competed with four other finalists in its category… Read more »