Pilot agrophotovoltaic installation in South Tyrol with a rope system.
G. Czaloun

A rope rack for PV modules

Rope constructions could be an interesting solution for dual-use solar systems as agrophotovoltaics, Hans Günter Czaloun elaborates in his guest article. The South Tyrolean engineer has several patents in this field and exhibited a prototype model at Intersolar Europe 2017 in Munich.

Alexander Maier in front of his Tesla battery. The architect is already planning the expand his energy storage capacity and his solar installation.
Panasonic/Heike Rost

From a supermarket to a smart home with energy storage

In Mainz, the architect Alexander Maier has transformed an old supermarket into a mixed residential and office building. With a photovoltaic system and energy storage, he has achieved a high level of energy self-sufficiency for the office. 

Günther Grabner (PV Invest), Mohammad Ali Pouramiri (Mehrabad Renewable Energy), Seyed Mehdi Mohaghegh (KPV Solar Iran), Gerhard Rabensteiner (KPV Solar) at the inauguration of the 1,2 PV plant in Rafsanjan.
Hans-Christoph Neidlein

Iran goes solar - new PV plant in Rafsanjan inaugurated

Iran offers promising business opportunities for European solar companies. KPV Solar, Fronius and Kioto Solar opened a new 1.2 MW PV park in the Special Economic Zone of Rafsanjan in south-eastern Iran.

The solar modules of Nethlerland`s largest PV rooftop installation cover over 155,000 m².
Switch Energy B.V.

Holland’s largest rooftop PV plant with 9.3 MW operational

With a power of 9.3 megawatts, the largest solar roof in the Netherlands can be found on a warehouse and production centre in Vianen. Since middle of June it covered 90 percent of the required in-house consumption.

Schletter presented new prefabricated complete packages for larger roof systems.
HS

PV Guided Tours: More roofs, fewer parts

In the case of suppliers of mounting systems, the innovations were very tight at Intersolar Europe. This means that you had to look carefully to see the differences. A retrospective for those who could not join.

PV and sea side by side: The 12 MW solar park Folelli on the west coast of Corsica.
Ralos New Energy

Salt resistant Blueplanet 50.0 TL3 OD+ inverters for coastal solar parks in Korsika

Sand and sea salt – what tourists love can be a problem for inverters. So specially modified inverter technology from Kaco New Energy is ensuring reliable solar energy generation in Western Corsica. Two solar parks, each with a power output of twelve megawatts, are currently under construction close to the coast.

Prof Adolf Goetzberger, now retired, is a pionieer of the concept to combine agriculture and use of photovoltaics.
Fraunhofer ISE

Agrophotovoltaics with great potential

Already in 1981 he had published his stunning idea: Using solar modules on agricultural land or in the hot and dry regions of the world. The shading will make the hard soil bloom, he predicted. In this time Professor Goetzberger was the head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. Now the scientists have built a first pilot installation near Lake Constance.

The PV plant of Tempress uses bifacial n-type solar modules from Yingli.
Tempress

Europe`s largest PV installation with bifacial solar modules in Netherlands

Tempress Systems BV, part of the Amtech Group, recently has opened Europe’s largest bifacial PV plant with bifacial solar modules in Vaasen/NL. The expected yield  is 30 percent higher than with monofacial solar panels.

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