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Adeel Y. Khan, founder and CEO of the new company.

SunIsUs – from project rights to AI-powered asset management

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A new player enters the German and global energy markets, combining PV and battery storage development with smart operational management.

On a bigger scale: AI applications in the solar sector will be a key topic at The smarter E Europe in Munich.

How AI is advancing photovoltaics

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Artificial intelligence is finding increasing application in the solar industry. As in many other sectors, generative AI promises to be a game-changer.

Nomad Electric expands its renewable energy business in Portugal.
Iberian Peninsula

Portugal: Nomad Electric signs new O&M contract

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Nomad Electric has signed an operations and maintenance (O&M) contract with a leading developer of utility-scale renewable energy projects, to provide O&M support for a solar plant in Portugal with a capacity close to 30 MW.

Italy

Obton unveils Advanced Global Monitoring Centre in Milan

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Obton's new Global Monitoring Centre in Milan centralizes operations for two gigawatts of plant capacity. Utilizing Meteocontrol's VCOM software, it enhances data control, optimizes production, and improves reporting for better decision-making and higher investor returns.

Austria

Koga Energy launches its EPC solution services

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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.

Intec is starting its solar operations in Sweden.
Intec/Chint

Partnership for 64 MW PV project in Sweden

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Intec and Chint will provide EPC and O&M services for a new PV project with 64 MW capacity in Hallstavik, Sweden for solar developer and independent power producer Alight.

Poland-based Nomad Electric is involved in PV-projects in six different districts in Portugal.
Portugal

Nomad Electric enters Portuguese PV market

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Nomad Electric has opened a branch office in Lisbon and will provide SCADA-class IT solutions for its first portfolio of photovoltaic projects with a total capacity in excess of 70 MW.

Walburga Hemetsberger, CEO of SolarPower Europe at the Solar Quality Summit Europe conference in Barcelona, co-organised with Intersolar.
SolarPower Europe

Solar Best Practices Platform launched

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SolarPower Europe has launched the Solar Best Practices Platform to award quality badges to solar project developers at the Solar Quality Summit Europe conference in Barcelona.

BayWa r.e. solar farm in the UK.
Investments

UK: BayWa r.e. sells solar parks with 110 MW

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BayWa r.e. has sold the Bracks solar farm to Railpen and the Scurf Dyke solar farm with a total capacity of 110 MW to Recap Global Investors. Partly they feature battery systems.

Belectric has already proven its expertise in installing tracker projects in Nordic countries. The picture shows a recently commissioned solar farm near Ringkøbing in Denmark.
Belectric

UK: New solar farms with trackers and batteries

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Belectric will build two solar farms with anstalled capacity of more than 100 MW in England. They are combined with batteries and single-axis trackers.

More and more solar parks are realized in Poland.
Intec/Chint

EPC and O&M services for 51.7 MW PV project in Poland

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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.

View of the new monitoring center for solar parks of Nomad Electric in Łódź (Poland).
Poland

Nomad Electric: High-tech monitoring center for the supervision of 800MW

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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.

The PV market in Poland shows dynamic growth.
Poland:

Nomad Electric added 438 MW to O&M portfolio in Q1 2022

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Polish Nomad Electric announced the signing of new O&M contracts for solar farms. The company has added an additional 438 MW to its portfolio over the past three months.

Shifting to a decentralized energy system has many benefits, but it necessitates a rethinking of the operations and maintenance (O&M) of the plants.
Operation and maintenance:

Standardizing decentralized energy

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Guest article: Timo Möller, Vice President at Nova Source, about ensuring maximum energy returns on renewable assets through standardizing decentralized energy.

IBC Solar will take over the ongoing maintenance and services of solar parks from 7C's existing installations.
Solar parks:

7C Solarparken takes over four solar parks at once

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The longstanding partner of IBC Solar and solar power plant operator 7C Solarparken has acquired four solar parks realised by IBC Solar with a total output of over 31 megawatts.

SMA has delivered to the two projects in Ireland a total of 40 storage systems with 80 Sunny Central Storage battery inverters, medium-voltage technology and a power plant manager.
Ireland:

SMA: O&M services for Ireland’s largest storage power plants

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SMA has been commissioned by Hanwha Energy Corporation Ireland (HECI) to provide technical operation and maintenance (O&M) for the Lumcloon and Shannonbridge large battery-storage systems in Ireland.

The already successful cooperation is now being rolled out globally.
Cooperation:

Mytilineos is extending its global partnership with Huawei

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Following the successful cooperation with the Renewables and Storage Development (RSD) Business Unit of Mytilineos (METKA EGN) in Greece, Huawei extends its business partnership with Mytilineos globally.

Spanish Ingeteam Group reached a milestone in its solar business in Australia.
International markets:

Ingeteam exceeded 2 GW of PV inverters supplied to Australia

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Ingeteam surpassed 2 GW inverters awarded to Australia and achieves its first O&M contract in the country.

PV-Invest will move its entire portfolio of 52 megawatts distributed over 86 PV systems with 14 different data loggers in 10 countries into one central monitoring system.
Monitoring:

PV-Invest chooses Solytic to monitor 52 megawatts

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Klagenfurt-based company PV-Invest acquires and operates photovoltaic plants throughout Europe. Now, PV-Invest brings the O&M service back in-house.

New solar parks at a former military site in in La Martinerie/France. The EPC best practice guidelines  of Solarpower Europe want to help further improve PV plant`s quality.
Solarpower Europe:

EPC best practice guidelines set standard for solar sector

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Solarpower Europe published a industry-first Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Best Practice Guidelines. They enable quality assurance at a much earlier stage of a project, reducing overall risks, and thus cost.

Central inverter INGECON SUN 1690TL B650 of Ingeteam.
Chile:

Ingeteam supplies a 108 MW PV project in the Atacama desert

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Ingeteam supplies solar inverters and provides O&M services for a PV project of more than 100 MW in Chile.