Mounting systems manufacturer Schletter Group has published its first CSR report. The report, which covers the full calendar year of 2023, contains the company’s strategies and measures pertaining to ecological responsibility, sustainable economics, and social commitment.
The Proline pitched roof system from the Schletter Group is based on a new profile geometry and new connecting elements. This makes the system lighter, more resilient and easier to install than its predecessor.
Flax, carbon, wood fibres and other renewable raw materials are the materials that make up the new mounting system for agrivoltaic systems. Identify what other advantages it has.
Schletter Group will be supplying the mounting systems for a major 130 MW ground-mounted project in the Dominican Republic. This brings the total peak megawattage of clean power being produced on Schletter systems across the Caribbean to over 700.
Renusol, the Cologne-based manufacturer of mounting systems, has introduced a completely new roof hook. The new RH1 comes to customers with a 25 per cent increase in load capacity.
Mounting systems manufacturer Schletter Group continues to grow in the Italian market. In cooperation with the general contractor EnValue, Schletter has successfully installed two ground-mounted systems with a total output of 48 MW near the Italian city of Udine.
Outlook 2024: K2 Systems opened a new branch in Valencia at the beginning of the year. Miguel Giménez is the new Country Manager at K2 Systems. In this interview, he talks about his expectations for the Spanish solar market. The mounting manufacturer will also be presenting new solutions at the Genera trade fair, which begins today.
The company has now established its eleventh international branch in Valencia. The aim is to support local installers and planners and to establish itself more firmly on the Spanish market.
A large PV roof project has gone into operation on the 85,000-square-meter site roofs of Steyr Automotive in Austria. The 7.5 MW system was installed using the Schletter FixGrid and ClampFit systems. Schletter Group were once again working with the energy supplier Burgenland Energie on this project.
In 2020, Ukrainian company SSK entered the European market with its range of PV module mounting systems, which have already proven successful in the markets of Ukraine and neighbouring countries.
Mounting system manufacturer Schletter Group has achieved the highest quarterly turnover in its company history in the second quarter of 2023. At 127 million euros, turnover was 15 per cent higher than the first quarter of 2023, which had the highest turnover to date, and 72 per cent higher than the first quarter of 2022.
The Schletter Group will once again be exhibiting at RE+ in Las Vegas from 12th to 14th September. There the company will showcase its latest innovations for ground- and roof-mounted PV installations.
At Intersolar 2023, IBC Solar will be demonstrating how its PV modules and mounting systems are subjected to endurance tests. On a load table, solar modules in combination with brackets will be subjected to structural and mechanical stress tests.
Photovoltaics modules, string inverters for free-standing installations, improved mounting and monitoring: The solar industry has made efficiency its mission, and it is coming along in leaps and bounds. Here are the companies and their products shortlisted for the Intersolar Award 2023:
Solar mounting systems manufacturer Schletter Group will commission a new production site in Turkey this month. At the plant in Dilovasi near Istanbul, Schletter will primarily produce for the markets in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and America. In parallel, the company is expanding its logistics network with a new 12,000-square-meter logistics center in Northern Europe.
With the Compactflat SN 2, the Austrian manufacturer Aerocompact has launched a rail-based mounting system for all common module sizes. Including large-area solar modules with up to 2,384 by 1,303 millimetres.
The manufacturer of assembly technology grew profitably in the 2022 financial year. The company achieved an annual turnover of around 330 million euros. This corresponds to an increase of 109 per cent compared to the previous year.
The rewetting of drained peatlands in combination with a temporarily installed solar system offers additional benefits for farmers. Dieter Geyer from the ZSW in Stuttgart defined the specifications for technical developments at this year's PV Symposium.
The Austrian manufacturer for PV racking solutions AEROCOMPACT, has developed a flat roof system for mounting bifacial active PV modules or solar systems on green roofs.
Agrivoltaics is considered to have a promising future. However, the example of Germany shows that the building law slows down many projects and the projects have to struggle with material price increases.
Last week it was reported that the ABN AMRO Transition Commodity Price Index had fallen by 22 percent in the 21 weeks leading up to it. That doesn’t seem to match with the stories about the ever-rising prices of Chinese polysilicon, but that too has stabilized. Even if it is artificial, our guest author Gerard Scheper, CEO of European Solar explains: "They just capped the price."
With the successful placement of corporate bonds, the Schletter Group has secured substantial funds to finance its growth. Institutional investors have invested a total of 65 million euros.
With the successful placement of corporate bonds, the globally active solar mounting manufacturer Schletter Group has secured substantial funds to finance its growth course. In total, institutional investors have invested 65 million euros in the company.
Clenergy has provided a 44-megawatt PV-ezRack solar installation solution for the 3A Independent Seawater Desalination Project in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, bolstering the development of new energy in countries along the “Belt and Road”.
With the SOL-50, German company SEN (Solare Energiesysteme Nord) has developed a solution for the aesthetic and quick installation of solar modules. Here, the modules are not installed with clamps, but are inserted into a rail. This creates a uniform module field.
