specialized trade

PV Guided Tours: Industry and commerce are aiming to use every possible surface for solar power – from roofs to façades and car parks. IBC Solar is responding with streamlined, easy-to-adapt mounting systems. Product Manager Sebastian Geier presents the latest solutions.

Interview with Jan Paul Dahm, Managing Director of wholesaler EWS, on business in Northern Europe, expertise in residential storage and service for installers.

Specialist retailer BayWa r.e. Solar Trade is setting standards for emissions-free logistics. Suppliers, transportation, buildings, and packaging are all in focus, with significant sustainability successes already achieved.

The specialist retailer has raised approximately €435m to finance digitalization and business expansion. The funds will be released following discussions with shareholders and financing banks. Shareholder Baywa is outsourcing its shares to a private equity firm.

Video: Over the years, IBC Solar has established an extensive portfolio of products that craftsmen can use to build every imaginable solar system. In this context, the company is always at their partners’ side. What options installers have and what suppliers need to respond to, tells Sebastian Geier, Senior Vice President Product and Innovation Management at IBC Solar.

Video: The solar markets for private customers have cooled down somewhat. Now quality providers of complete packages are prevailing. Installers receive all components from a single source – compatible and tailor-made. Bertrand Chevalley, COO of Solar Solutions, explains what advantages this offers.

SW Group has delivered into service four innovative triple deck 15m trailers for renewables distributor, Segen UK. The deal, which represents a £250,000 investment by SW Group, aims to improve cost efficiencies and contribute to a reduction in CO2 emissions of the transport of PV modules.

Video: The solar markets for private customers have cooled down somewhat. Now quality providers of complete packages are prevailing. Installers receive all components from a single source – compatible and tailor-made. Bertrand Chevalley, COO of Solar Solutions, explains what advantages this offers.

Video: Over the years, IBC Solar has established an extensive portfolio of products that craftsmen can use to build every imaginable solar system. In this context, the company is always at their partners’ side. What options installers have and what suppliers need to respond to, tells Sebastian Geier, Senior Vice President Product and Innovation Management at IBC Solar.

BayWa r.e. Solar Trade and Seacon Logistics will develop a Netherlands based fully climate-neutral logistics centre with over 50,000 m² of storage capacity for photovoltaic components.

Video: The solar markets for private customers have cooled down somewhat. Now quality providers of complete packages are prevailing. Installers receive all components from a single source – compatible and tailor-made. Bertrand Chevalley, COO of Solar Solutions, explains what advantages this offers.

EWS’ company site is once again bustling with activity: heavy equipment has arrived in Handewitt/Germany to complete what is now the seventh warehouse with adjacent warehouse office. Construction work in the Kätnerland business park began at the end of May 2024, with completion and move-in planned for November 2024.

The private solar markets started slowly this year, all over Europe. Now it is the hour of quality suppliers which offer complete packages in high quality. We want to know what are the advantages and what maybe are the pitfalls. Bertrand Chevalley of Solar Solutions gives his insights.

Video: Over the years, IBC Solar has established an extensive portfolio of products that craftsmen can use to build every imaginable solar system. In this context, the company is always at their partners’ side. What options installers have and what suppliers need to respond to, tells Sebastian Geier, Senior Vice President Product and Innovation Management at IBC Solar.

Video: The solar markets for private customers have cooled down somewhat. Now quality providers of complete packages are prevailing. Installers receive all components from a single source – compatible and tailor-made. Bertrand Chevalley, COO of Solar Solutions, explains what advantages this offers.

Krannich Solar is opening two new branches to further expand its global business. After recently opening branches in America and Asia, the focus is now on the Balkans. Krannich has opened its 30th branch there in Croatia, while the branch in Slovenia is number 31.

Video: Over the years, IBC Solar has established an extensive portfolio of products that craftsmen can use to build every imaginable solar system. In this context, the company is always at their partners’ side. What options installers have and what suppliers need to respond to, tells Sebastian Geier, Senior Vice President Product and Innovation Management at IBC Solar.

Video: The solar markets for private customers have cooled down somewhat. Now quality providers of complete packages are prevailing. Installers receive all components from a single source – compatible and tailor-made. Bertrand Chevalley, COO of Solar Solutions, explains what advantages this offers.

Video: Over the years, IBC Solar has established an extensive portfolio of products that craftsmen can use to build every imaginable solar system. In this context, the company is always at their partners’ side. What options installers have and what suppliers need to respond to, tells Sebastian Geier, Senior Vice President Product and Innovation Management at IBC Solar.

Krannich Solar was once again represented at Intersolar 2024/The smarter E Europe in Munich, the world's most important PV industry trade fair. The mood on site was optimistic and better than some had expected. “We had many good discussions and are looking forward to the second half of 2024,” summarizes CSO Jan Brunner.

Following Menlo's Electric recent announcement of a strategic partnership with Sungrow, the Polish wholesaler has now also renewed its strategic partnership with Jinko Solar.

PV Guided Tours: Time is money. This is especially true for installation. Do standardized complete PV packages help here? Without quality falling by the wayside? Sales Manager Touareg Tong from Slenergy explains advantages and pitfalls.

CEO Talk: The demand for solar systems is very high. Solar modules, inverters, energy storage – whoever can deliver wins the race. On behalf of the installers: Let us find out what challenges the wholesalers have to master. We talk to Klaus Burgstaller, Head of Suntastic Solar in Germany.

CEO Talk: The solar markets are starving for components, supply bottlenecks are dampening growth. Now is the time for full-service providers like AEG Solar Solutions. Everything from a single source: Does that make sense for installers? Stuart Brannigan is Business Development Director. Find out what he says in our video!

The Cologne-based team can look back on 20 years of successful PR work for renewable energies. Since then, many companies have been supported in their public image. Current clients include Aerocompact, Socomec and TÜV Rheinland. The editorial team of pv Europe congratulates and says: Keep up the good work!