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A Caribbean idyll: The site is still vacant. This is the place on St. Kitts where the large solar park with storage unit is to be built.
Hybrid power plant

Leclanché builds solar storage hybrid power plant on St. Kitts

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With the combination of solar park and storage unit, the utility Skelec can supply around a third of the Caribbean island's electricity. THAT saves a lot of diesel, which was previously used for the power supply.

Off-grid appliance

A solar powered wildlife and security camera

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The German company Technaxx has developed the 4G Wildcam, a wildlife camera trap that is fully self-sufficient because it is powered by a solar panel and fitted with a rechargeable battery.

The Offgrid Expo brings together experts in off-grid systems.
Offgrid Expo 2023

Free tickets for the trade fair and conference in December

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The Offgrid Expo will take place in Augsburg on 7 and 8 December 2023. It combines a high-calibre congress with an industry show all about off-grid solar systems. Wind power and hydropower will also be featured. Use the code below for free tickets.

Solar foils

Flexible solar modules for camping vehicles

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Online retailer Greenakku offers a wide range of solar bags with outputs from 60 to 200 watts. Users can choose between monocrystalline or Sunpower cells. Difficult lighting conditions or partial shading have little effect on the solar foils.

Inverters

A PV inverter for off-grid applications

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Growatt, has launched its latest SPF 6000 ES Plus inverter for residential off-grid PV storage applications. The inverter is targeted at markets with frequent power cuts or limited access to the grid.

Solar storage

Hybrid system secures the electricity supply

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In the event of a power failure, the Homehybrid Safe from Mobilhybrid continues to supply all consumers without interruption for several hours, days, weeks and actually months.

SolarButterfly departs on world tour for sustainability.
Opes Solutions:

Recycled ocean plastic solar modules for vehicle integration

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Off-grid-module manufacturer, Opes Solutions, enters new paths with lightweight solar modules for vehicle integration based on recycled ocean plastic.

Storage:

A battery system for off-grid solar energy storage

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Growatt adds the AXE LV battery system to its product portfolios to meet the growing demand for residential off-grid lithium battery storage systems.

78° North – that’s what we call off-grid.
BYD:

Flexibility key for energy storage systems

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Energy storage application cases are becoming increasingly diverse. Does this have to mean that installers and distributors need to make themselves familiar with more and more systems to meet the different needs? Or can a more flexible and adaptable modular system design be the answer?

The hybrid event this year offers the best of both worlds: Face to face meetings for those able to make it to Augsburg combined with digital interactions for those who cannot or choose not to show up in person.
OFF-GRID Expo + Conference:

Conference and trade fair for self-sufficient and off-grid power supply solutions

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The international Off-Grid-Community will be meeting again from December 2 to 3, 2021 at the OFF-GRID Expo + Conference in Augsburg as well as online.

The solar-plus-diesel plant will allow to keep electricity prices down and reduce municipal expenditures earlier allocated for procurement of diesel fuel.
Rural electrification:

Hevel to complete first hybrid off-grid PV in Arctic region

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Hevel Energo Servis, the Hevel Group’s energy service business unit, has completed the construction of an off-grid solar-plus-diesel project in Chukotka that will be the first standalone PV installation in the Russian Arctic.

Once commissioned, the project will cut the mine’s diesel consumption by approximately 20 to 22 million liters per year and thus offset between 53,000 and 60,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions annually.
Mining:

Sungrow supplies large solar-plus-storage solution in northern Africa

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Sungrow announced recently it forged the contract to supply equipment to juwi for the 36 megawatt off-grid solar farm and a 7.5 megawatt battery energy storage system at Sukari gold mine operated by Centamin in Egypt.

Off-grid solar:

Growatt releases its second generation inverter for off-grid solar applications

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In the world today, on small islands or in developing and rural areas where there’s limited or even no access to the grid, off-grid solar power becomes the increasingly popular energy solutions for many.

Battery storage:

A robust modular storage solution

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Enphase Energy designs and manufactures domestic and commercial solar storage solutions. The Encharge 3T has recently won the ees Award.

The system can be expanded with modules to move from 20 to 120 kWh.
Battery storage:

A large storage unit for grid support and off-grid operation

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The xelectrix Power Box XPB Pro Range is a versatile plug and play storage solution for supplying power inside and outside.

Together, the devices from BYD and Ingeteam now make a fully solar-plus-storage capable solution.
Solar-plus-storage:

Ingeteam inverters now compatible with BYD high voltage batteries

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Ingeteam and BYD have at their respective R&D laboratories tested and certified the compatibility of the BYD Battery-Box Premium HVS and HVM high voltage batteries with Ingeteam's Ingecon Sun Storage 1Play TL M hybrid inverter (solar-plus-storage inverter).

On the island of Fohdoo, a photovoltaic installation with a power output of 100 kilowatts supplies about 30 percent of the island’s electricity, saving around 35,000 liters of diesel per year.
Remote energy generation:

Connected microgrids for the Maldives

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DHybrid have installed microgrids on a total of 26 islands on the Shaviyani and Noonu Atolls of the Maldives and equipped them with a central monitoring and control system (SCADA).

Peng Jianhua, President of Site Power Facility, Huawei Digital Power Technologies.
Huawei:

Comprehensive off-grid fuel removal power solution

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At SNEC Shanghai, Peng Jianhua, President of Site Power Facility, Huawei Digital Power Technologies released the full series of comprehensive off-grid fuel removal power solution iPowerCube.

Solar solutions for Nigeria were presented and discussed recently at a conference.
Africa:

Nigeria pushes electrification – opportunity for solar

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Nigeria is increasing its efforts to promote renewables and rural electrification as the online conference “Renpower Nigeria investors 2021” revealed.

Sensors track temperature, humidity, pressure - and can even track how many people have sat on the bench, how long they stayed or whether they charged their devices.
Urban furniture:

A smart city bench that charges small devices from the sun

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With futuristic looks, include’s Steora City bench has a number of environmental sensors, Qi and USB device charges and provides ambient light. Can also be upgraded for various other smart applications.

The aim of the project is to do away almost completely with diesel fuel for powering remote power grids.
PV-Diesel-Global:

Research project into sustainable energy solutions for off-grid regions

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SMA and project partners have jointly launched the research project “PV-Diesel-Global”: The goal behind it is to advance the energy transition in off-grid regions.

Growatt reports growing business for off-grid inverters.

Growatt: Strong increase in off-grid inverter shipments

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Despite COVID-19 Growatt expects an increase of over 60% in off-grid inverter shipments, compared to 2019.