Month: January 2017

QOS Energy, Europe’s leading renewable energy management platform, raises €3 million

Nantes, Tuesday, January 17th. At the nexus of cloud computing, the Internet of Things and renewables, QOS Energy has experienced exponential and international growth over recent years. The capital, raised from two independent growth equity investors: ETF Partners and current shareholder GO CAPITAL, will ensure QOS Energy increase this momentum. The investment will be used to… Read more »

ScottishPower Renewables Agrees Contract with Nexans and DeepOcean for East Anglia ONE Export Cable

ScottishPower Renewables has agreed a contract with Nexans and Darlington-based DeepOcean to fabricate and install the export cables for the East Anglia ONE offshore windfarm. The contract will safeguard 150 jobs in Darlington and the surrounding area, as well as enabling DeepOcean to offer significant opportunities to the UK supply chain. The cables will carry… Read more »

ScottishPower Renewables Agrees Contract with Van Oord and Seajacks to install Steel Jackets on East Anglia ONE

ScottishPower Renewables has contracted marine engineering specialist Van Oord and Great Yarmouth-based Seajacks to transport and install the foundation jackets on the East Anglia ONE offshore windfarm. The main installation vessel will be Seajacks’ state-of-the-art Scylla, the world’s largest and most advanced working in offshore wind. The contract will support 140 current positions with Seajacks,… Read more »

Astronergy receives licence to import 100 MW of solar modules to Turkey

German module manufacturer continues to increase production Frankfurt (Oder)/Germany, Ankara, 17.1.2017 – Astronergy is among the few international manufacturers of solar modules to receive an import licence from the Turkish Ministry of Economics. The German company is permitted to supply a total of 100 megawatts (MW) of capacity to Turkish photovoltaic projects. As a result,… Read more »

DNV GL certifies new prototype of Siemens’ 8 MW Offshore Wind Turbine

·         DNV GL supports Siemens to prepare optimised turbine for the offshore market with a rated power increase of 14% compared to the previously certified turbine variant. ·        Certification confirms new turbine is built according to latest safety and performance standards ·        With the SWT-8.0-154, Siemens takes important third step in industrialising their offshore direct drive platform… Read more »

Cyberhawk Innovations announces double shortlisting for Offshore Achievement Awards

Cyberhawk Innovations is delighted to be recognised as a finalist at the 2017 Offshore Achievement Awards for the categories Safety Innovation and Export Achievement. The world leader in aerial inspection and survey using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), otherwise known as drones, continues to pioneer the use of this technology to conduct close up inspections of live… Read more »

RNRG’s SRA Systems Improve Power Prediction Accuracy by 14% at Japanese PV Project

Hinesburg, VT, USA – January 16, 2017: When developing a utility-scale solar PV project, accurately projecting the site’s power output is crucial. For its 33 MW Kumenan PV project in Japan, Pacifico Energy experimented with publically available data before seeking a more precise measurement solution. After implementing SRA Systems from Renewable NRG Systems (RNRG)—a leading… Read more »

Energy efficiency in the kitchen

20% energy costs saving in the restaurant industry Griddles, fryers, electric hot-plates, ovens, refrigerators, air conditioners: these are just some example of energy consuming devices in a restaurant. Most of them are not on 24 hours a day, nevertheless energy saving is mandatory to reduce the electric bill. That’s why power monitoring and power management… Read more »

Nordex supplies 22 large turbines to Australia

Hamburg, 12 January 2017. Uptrend Down Under: End of 2016 the Nordex Group has signed a contract for supplying 22 AW125/3000 turbines for the construction of the first phase of “Mount Gellibrand” wind farm in Australia. This 66 MW project is located near Colac, in Western Victoria state, in the south-east of the country. The… Read more »

BayWa r.e. acquires O&M service provider Green Hedge Operational Services, bringing its UK O&M portfolio to 620 MW

Munich, 12 January 2017: BayWa r.e. has acquired the stand-alone operations & maintenance (O&M) service business that was previously part of the Green Hedge group of companies. With this successful acquisition, BayWa r.e. is adding 160MW of O&M mandates for photovoltaic (PV) plants to its existing operating portfolio in UK, bringing the total to 620MW.  Green… Read more »

Increase in Nordex Group’s order intake to over EUR 3.3 billion in 2016

33.6% increase in new orders Acquisition of Acciona Windpower drives growth in South and North America Working capital ratio meeting 2016 target Hamburg, 11 January 2016. The order intake of the Nordex Group (ISIN DE000A0D6554) grew by 33.6% to EUR 3.30 billion in 2016 (2015: EUR 2.47 billion). The geographical distribution of 2016 orders mirrored… Read more »

Goldbeck Solar reaches very good results in customer satisfaction

85 percent of the O&M customers are satisfied or very satisfied with the on-the-spot operations and maintenance service Goldbeck Solar GmbH successfully completed its latest customer satisfaction survey. Almost all respondents were satisfied or very satisfied with the quality of the service provider. Especially the commercial processing and the maintenance technicians were rated positively (5.1… Read more »

WINDSOURCING.COM is official Distribution Partner for the new MiComm IP-Box by Mita-Teknik (01/2017)

Mita-Teknik chooses WINDSOURCING.COM as Sales Partner for the new MiComm IP-Box Hamburg, 10 January 2017. Already in 2015 WINDSOURCING.COM welcomed the leading industry player Mita-Teknik on board and became official distribution partner for the Danish company’s wind energy products. Mita-Teknik is an international company specializing in complete control concepts for wind turbines. Among others control… Read more »

Lightsource Secures 365MW Third Party Operation & Maintenance and Asset Management Portfolio

Lightsource Renewable Energy, Europe’s leading solar energy company, has partnered Vortex, a European renewable energy platform managed by EFG Hermes Private Equity arm, on the acquisition of one of the UK’s largest solar PV portfolios. Lightsource will provide long-term Operations & Maintenance and Asset Management services to Vortex which has entered into a sale and… Read more »

Solar-Log™ Hybrid eControl-Box –reduce diesel consumption and CO2 emissions

With the Solar-Log™ Hybrid eControl-Box, the interaction between PV plants and diesel generators in regions with unstable power grids can be optimally regulated. In many countries, there are regions with unstable power grids. When grid power failures occur in these regions, diesel motors are often used to provide temporary power. When used in combination with… Read more »

Photovoltaik-Institut Berlin ensures future profitability of PV power plants in Jordan

Module quality is a crucial factor in securing project profitability in this competitive environment Berlin/Amman/Abu Dhabi, 9 January 2017 – Acting as an independent consultant, the Photovoltaik-Institut Berlin (PI Berlin) has assisted in the acceptance of four photovoltaic power plants with a total capacity of 57 megawatts (MW) in Jordan. The project developer, Adenium Energy… Read more »

Meyer Burger awarded orders for industry-leading MB PERC upgrade cell technology from two existing Asian customers for a total amount of about CHF 20 million

Two existing PV customers located in Asia have awarded Meyer Burger contracts with a combined value of about CHF 20 million for the delivery and installation of the MAiA 2.1 technology platform with the industry-leading upgrade cell technology MB PERC. Delivery and commissioning of the equipment is scheduled to start as of the second quarter… Read more »

Sungrow wins a contract supplying 200MW PV inverters to Blue Capital Management Co., Ltd, in Japan

Tokyo, Japan / Jan 9 – Sungrow, the world’s leading PV inverter manufacturer, has recently signed an agreement with Blue Capital Management Co., Ltd, a Japanese developer, for the supply of 200 MW of central inverters in Japan. Tokyo-based developer Blue Power noted that they felt confident in the agreement “as Sungrow has an excellent manufacturing… Read more »

Project start for Wind Innovation

C-bed marks the New Year by seeing Wind Innovation heading off to the German North Sea and immediately initiate a new challenging offshore wind assignment. The new project is located 95 km North West from Borkum Island, which is an ideal location with strong, steady winds. In total, the wind farm will compose 67 single… Read more »

Change in the Management Board of 3D-Micromac AG

Uwe Wagner appointed as Chief Technology Officer The chairman of 3D-Micromac AG has appointed Uwe Wagner as Chief Technology Officer. Effective January 1, 2017 he takes charge of technological management at the Chemnitz machine manufacturer and heads the company divisions of engineering and process development. Uwe Wagner was born in 1971. He studied Electrical Engineering/… Read more »

Trimark SCADA Selected for First Utility-Scale Solar Resource on Grand Cayman Island

Folsom, CA –  In a field just off the beach on Grand Cayman, Trimark will deliver an advanced SCADA system to monitor and control the first, utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) power generation resource in this island nation. The 5 MW electric power generation resource in Bodden Town, Grand Cayman, is being developed by Entropy Cayman Solar… Read more »

Delta’s Photovoltaic (PV) Inverters Bring High Energy Efficiency to a Cluster of Solar PV Plants in Denmark with a Total Capacity of 50.4MW

Delta, a global leader in power and thermal management solutions, announced today its state-of-the-art PV inverter technology has been successfully integrated into a conglomerate of 126 solar PV power plants in Vandel, Denmark totalling 50.4MW A total of 1,008 units of Delta’s M50A series solar PV inverters, featuring leading efficiency of up to 98.6% and… Read more »

Siemens wins first offshore wind project in Belgium

• Rentel offshore wind power plant with a capacity of 309 megawatts • 42 SWT-7.0-154 wind turbines • Clean power for 300,000 Belgian households • 17-year service and maintenance contract Siemens, as a significant player in offshore wind power, has successfully entered the offshore wind market in Belgium with a first order for the 309MW… Read more »

GRS nets Taiwanese Job

Hamburg-based specialist shipbroker GRS – Global Renewables Shipbrokers – has provided brokerage services on turnkey solution basis for a geotechnical soil investigation campaign in Taiwanese waters. The campaign represents the first assignment of GRS in Taiwan. GRS supported the European wind farm developer during the entire purchasing procedure for a one-stop-shop contractor and eventually partnered… Read more »