NEWSLETTER Nº30

SunPower completes a 1.4 MW solar power plant in South Korea

SunPower Corporation announced that it has completed the design and construction of a new 1.4 MW solar electric power plant project in Hampyeong, in South Korea.  The company worked with a local energy company, Ene System, to complete the plant, which is owned by Hampyeong Solar Plus, and will generate 1.8 million kW/h per year. Read more...

New Sales Manager for the Photovoltaic Division of Eurener

The solar energy company Eurener has named Bernardo Luis Esparza as Sales Manager of his Photovoltaic Division. With this appointment, the company tries to reinforce its commercial strategy. Read more...

Siemens will supply 140 wind turbines for the world’s largest offshore wind farm

Siemens Energy has received an order for the supply of 140 wind turbines for the world’s largest offshore wind farm Greater Gabbard located 25 kilometers off the coast of Suffolk in Great Britain. Read more...

Vattenfall will build CCS demonstration plant in Jänschwalde

Vattenfall will build a demonstration plant for CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) technology at one of the 500 MW blocks of the conventional lignite power plant Jänschwalde in the State of Brandenburg, Germany. With the demonstration plant, in full-scale operation no later than 2015, Vattenfall is taking another important step towards commercial implementation of CCS technology. Read more...

SeaGen completed the world’s first megawatt scale tidal turbine installed

Marine Current Turbines has successfully completed the installation of its 1.2MW SeaGen tidal energy system in Strangford Narrows in Northern Ireland. There will now be a 12-week period of commissioning and testing before it starts regularly feeding power into the Northern Ireland grid. Read more...

Sunfilm awards a second Applied SunFab solar modules line

Due to the strong demand for its solar modules, Sunfilm has awarded a contract for a second Applied SunFab™ thin film line for Applied Materials. This second production line will be installed next to its first line in Grossroehrsdorf, near Dresden, Germany. Read more...

E.on promotes energy storage

The company launches the new E.on Research Award to 10 outstanding projects by international universities and institutes. This year the award goes to projects dealing with different methods of energy storage: ranging from highly efficient batteries and new heat storage devices for point-of-use cogeneration systems through the use of electric vehicles as mobile storage units to compressed-air storage systems on the seabed. Read more...

Deep Water gunashli production begins on schedule in the Caspian

The Azerbaijan International Operating Company (Aioc), operated by BP, recently, has announced the start-up of oil production from the Deep Water Gunashli (DWG) platform complex as scheduled. Start-up of the DWG complex completes the third phase of development of the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) field in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea. Read more...

Landis+Gyr consolidates to improve Europe, Middle East and African

The company has announced that it is combining its UK and prepayment and European businesses to help it to continue to meet its customers' smart energy needs. The new Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region will be led by the former COO of BT Global Services in Germany, Ad van der Meys. Read more...

Carbon Expo 2009 heads for Barcelona

From May the 25th to the 27th of 2009, Carbon Expo – the Trade Fair and Conference for emissions trading and carbon abatement solutions – will continue. Together with their new partner Fira Barcelona, the World Bank, the International Emissions Trading Association and Koelnmesse will organise Carbon Expo 2009 in the Spanish city of Barcelona. Read more...

Italy, Austria, Hungary and France were awarded at the Sustainable Energy Europe Awards

The nominees ranged from local governments and authorities to private companies and associations. They were grouped into five categories: co-operation programmes, demonstration and dissemination projects, market transformation, promotional, communication and educational actions, and finally, communities. Read more... 

The European Parliament give go-ahead to fuel cells and hydrogen JTI

The deputies have given its support to the EU's fifth Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) in a vote on 20 May. A considerable majority of 590 out of a total of 619 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voting during a plenary session in Strasbourg were in favour of setting up the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH) Initiative. Read more...

Rapid growth predicted in the global wind energy market

In international wind energy industry, the world market volume of annual new installations is expected to be multiplied by five within ten years, from about 20 000 MW in 2007 to about 107,000 MW in 2017. These are the results of the fourth WindEnergy Study commissioned by Husum WindEnergy 2008 with the German Wind Energy Institute (DEWI). Read more...