NEWSLETTER Nº32
Iberdrola Renovables commissions the Amelecourt wind farm, with 11.5 MW of power, in France
Iberdrola Renovables has completed commissioning of a new wind farm in France, called Amelecourt and located in the Northeast of the country, close to the German border. The installation has 11.5 megawatts (MW) of installed power shared between five Nordex N90 wind turbines of 2.3 MW of nominal power. Read More…
Energética XXI be once again in Intersolar
This week begins the biggest solar specialized fair of the world, Intersolar, which this year moves from Fryeburg to Munich and is celebrated from June the 12th to the 14th. The whole team of ENERGÉTICA XXI will go, as exhibitors, to the fair. In our booth C2.762, the May edition will be distributed by free, in whose pages it stands out, in English and Spanish, a unique topic: the solar power. Read More…
GE Energy announces its new OpFlex™ Extended Turndown for 9FA+e Gas Turbines
Citing the need in the power industry for additional operational flexibility, GE Energy introduced OpFlex™ Extended Turndown, which enables customers to operate their 9FA+e gas turbines with additional turndown without jeopardizing performance, reliability or emissions. Read More…
Vestas to deliver 92 V82-1.65 MW wind turbines to Brazil
Vestas has received an order for a total of 92 units of the V82-1.65 MW wind turbine for the Alegria project in Brazil. The order comprises supply of the turbines, a VestasOnline™ Business Scada system as well as a five-year service agreement. Read More…
Mecasolar’s orders surpass 140 MW for 2008
Mecasolar has surpassed the 140 MW mark in orders for 2008. This figure makes the company the European leader in terms of its capacity to manufacture -14,000 trackers a year and its four manufacturing plants: Fustiñana, Ribaforada and Tudela, in Navarra; and Talavera la Real, Badajoz- along with its number of parks installed. Read More…
Ersol Thin Film signs a module supply contract with Ralos Vertriebs
Ersol Thin Film, a subsidiary of Ersol Solar Energy, signed a contract with Ralos Vertriebs for the supply of about 40 MWp thin-film modules. Amorphous thin-film modules are to be supplied to the German solar distributor over a period of three years from 2008. Read More…
Wärtsilä receives its first order for 20V46F engines and it’s for power plant in Brazil
The company has received an order for a power plant, valued at 80 million euros, to be delivered to Brazil. This new order has been placed by Maracanaú Geradora de Energia. The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract is for a 168 MWe power plant to be installed at Fortaleza, in Ceará State in northeastern Brazil. Read More…
Trina Solar celebrates its 10th anniversary in the photovoltaic business this year
The company hosted a one-day celebration at its headquarters in Changzhou, on Earth Day, the 22nd of April. The event was attended by the company management team, numerous government officials, as well as suppliers and customers from around the globe, including countries such as Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Australia, USA, France and Korea. Read More…
Concentrix presents its optimized concentrador PV system
A new record was set by Concentrix Solar in Freiburg, Germany for its concentrator PV system. During the measurement period in May 2008, AC system efficiencies of 23% and higher were measured under normal operating conditions for a demonstration system located at the test site of the new partner Abengoa Solar in Seville, Spain. Read More…
Wind energy is to overtake nuclear by 2013
Leaders of the UK offshore wind industry have met for their annual conference in Westminster. Figures released by the BWEA, the UK wind industry trade association, reveal that installed wind energy generating capacity will have surpassed installed nuclear within the next 5 years. Read More…
Revision of Germany’s Renewable Energy Law: coalition gears down on the home stretch
After last week hands had already been shaken among the protagonists of Germany’s Renewable Energy Law (EEG) revision, a last minute amendment was added on pressure of members of the Christian Democratic Party. Voices had become stronger to meet the country’s solar industry growth with an additional target corridor and adjust subsidies when exceeding or falling below the objectives. Read More…
European Wind Day
The second edition of the European Wind Day will take place on 15 June 2008 across Europe. In the wake of last year’s successful event, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) is organising a pan-European campaign to highlight the benefits of wind energy – an infinite, renewable and indigenous energy source. Read More…
Fungus genome opens pathways to next-generation biofuels
A team of French and US researchers has completed sequencing the entire genome of Trichoderma reesei, a fungus which is best known for its ability to break down and convert plant biomass into simple sugars. Cordis explains that the work, which is partly EU-funded, is expected to open new and more efficient avenues for producing biofuels using non-food plants. Read More…
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