BayWa r.e. and the Belgian technology company 3E have signed a strategic partnership agreement. BayWa r.e. has chosen 3E's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform SynaptiQ as its new monitoring and analytics system for all solar plants and battery energy storage systems (BESS).
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Koga Energy, the Austria based Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) solutions provider, has officially launched, providing services for solar energy projects across Europe.
Knowing how much energy a solar power plant will generate is essential to its operator. This is especially true with larger solar power plants: electricity suppliers need to establish how much energy they are capable of producing.
DNV has launched a Joint Industry Project (JIP) to prompt a significant leap forward in maintenance practices in the solar PV industry.
Sungrow has recently upgraded its iSolarCloud App. As a management and monitoring system, the offers lifecycle management for photovoltaic and energy storage plants, including data collection, plant monitoring as well as operation and maintenance (O&M).
The waste management company Reiling is expanding its capacities to recycle old silicon-based modules. Up to 50,000 tonnes a year are dismantled and processed there, also to recover silicon or silver.
The Green Energy Park, in collaboration with Chemitek Solar, a Portuguese company for anti-soiling solutions for PV modules, has conducted outdoor testing of these. The results have now been published in a scientific journal.
The VS290 videoscope family of thermal imagers from Flir is getting two additional kits and probe attachments: The VS290-33 with MSX improves usability for inspection of underground utilities and applications.
Intec Energy Solutions and Chint Solar are partnering to provide EPC and O&M services for the new 51.7 MW solar Resko project in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland for Econergy.
Viessmann also has photovoltaic modules in its portfolio with the Vitovolt 300 series. The half-cell module delivers up to 410 watts with efficiencies of up to 21.2 per cent.
The Portuguese company Chemitek has entered the North American market with its solutions for removing contaminants from and protecting solar panels, making their energy production more efficient.
Polish EPC Nomad Electric opened a new high-tech monitoring center to manage its growing portfolio of solar parks efficiently and ensure their proper operation.
Operating costs and stable yields are crucial for the economic viability of CSP plants. A new device detects the degree of soiling of the mirrors of such systems and thus ensures the optimisation of cleaning cycles.
Better digital maintenance for solar technicians, a simple solar module frame system for building integration and a Belgian module supplier that enters the German market. These are our top products of the week.
The software Excelation Assets by Dr Eckhardt + Partner keeps track of the immediate documentation of all completed maintenance tasks as well as reminders of upcoming deadlines.
A system for detecting everything from insulation faults to broken solar cells, rooftop solar modules with 21.8 per cent efficiency, an all-in-one EV charging system up to 160 kilowatts and a multilevel converter for storage units. These are our top products of the week:
With the LSI fault location set from Solartektor, the solar installer can exactly determine a possible fault in a solar array.
Weighing only 26 grams, the Mini1 is a lightweight and cost-effective thermal imaging camera module for inspecting electrical equipment and solar systems.
Trinamix from Ludwigshafen launches a mobile solution for fast material identification. This helps with fault detection and quality control.
The Flir E52 expands the Exx series thermal camera range, offering professional-quality infrared resolution and an in-camera routing function for more efficient inspections.
HyCleaner has attracted a lot of attention with its robot systems over the past years – not only in the solar industry but also in the field of cleaning facades and glass roofs. Now the company has announced additions to the management team.
With a combined charging and diagnostic device, mechanics in independent workshops and fleet operators can assess the condition of electric vehicle batteries independently of the manufacturer. This saves on operating costs and waste.
The LSI fault location set from Solartektor is not made for fault measurement, but for pinpoint location of the fault.
A joint study by the Leibniz Institute and the German Weather Service has shown that the yields of solar systems installed in different regions vary greatly in some cases. Dust particles in the air have a major influence.
