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© SunBrush mobil
UAE:

SunBrush sweeps the Middle East off its feet

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SunBrush mobil, provider of cleaning solutions for solar arrays, partners with construction enterprise United Motors & Heavy Equipment in the United Arab Emirates.

© SMA
Planning tools:

SMA and Renusol to link up their planning tools

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SMA Solar Technology and Renusol Europe GmbH are connecting their online planning tools for PV roof mounting and PV system design. Installers will now be able to access the mechanical and electrical planning data of over 100,000 different PV modules as they configure their PV systems.

© SecondSol
Spare parts:

SecondSol introduces new features

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The new features for SecondSol include a new payment model, visible contact details, price scales for products and the choice of currency. See here for more:

© Raycatch
Solar asset management:

The global PV industry could be losing $14.5 billion each year by 2024

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Raycatch, a start-up that has developed an innovative AI-driven digital asset management system of solar PV assets, recently released a special report entitled Solar Asset Optimization – Industry Benchmark Study:

© Next Kraftwerke GmbH
Company acquisition:

Shell acquires Next Kraftwerke

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To strengthen its position in renewable energy trading, Shell Overseas Investment B.V. will take over all of Next Kraftwerke, including the more than 180 staff.

© Lapp Holding AG
My vision:

Georg Stawowy of Lapp Holding AG: All Electric Society needs 100 per cent renewable electricity

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What concerns me personally is not directly climate change, but the consumption of resources on our planet. Because all people want to share in the prosperity.

© Phoenix Contact
My vision:

Torsten Sieker of Phoenix Contact: Implementing sector coupling across the board

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Phoenix Contact's vision for the energy transition in the future is clean and affordable electricity that is available to everyone everywhere in the world. This vision cannot be realised with solar energy alone.

© Solar Data
Cooperation:

Solar Data and SecondSol work together on the optimization of PV plants

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Solar Data has integrated the SecondSol marketplace in their optimization software for PV plants. This allows users for the first time to incorporate available products directly into their plant optimization. Consequently, optimization projects can be converted faster and more efficiently.

© Solyitic
My vision:

Johannes Dahl from Solytic: Completely digitalise monitoring and problem solving

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How good is good? Digitalisation leaves no questions unanswered. Today, the productivity of photovoltaic systems can be precisely measured and easily optimised.

© Solytic
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.

© BayWa r.e.
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.

© GreenPowerMonitor
Renewables monitoring:

Wood Mackenzie ranks GreenPowerMonitor at top of its industry

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DNV GL, GreenPowerMonitor's (GPM) parent company, recently announced that its unit leads the renewables monitoring industry according to Wood Mackenzie.

© Vorsatz Media
Video PV Guided Tours 2020:

ETU Software 2020: Fast from roof photo to 3D simulation!

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ETU Software has further simplified the planning and design of photovoltaic systems: Simply take a photo of the roof with any device, define a dimension and the solar system can be planned. One data model for many applications - in the video of the pv Guided Tours 2020!

© Hagen Ruhland

Project COSIMA: Smart inspection from the air

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Regional cooperation partners develop yield monitoring and forecasting of solar parks through intelligent quality management of photovoltaic systems.

© ETU Software GmbH
Advertisement

PV-Simulation 3D PLUS - optimized design of rooftop PV systems

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PV-Simulation 3D PLUS is a manufacturer-independent simulation software for the design and layout of photovoltaic systems.

© Panumas - stock.adobe.com

Power generation profiles for PPA projects

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meteocontrol GmbH is now providing a new technical consulting service with its system-specific power generation profiles.

© TG hyLIFT GmbH

Leaders of our industry: Andreas Grochowiak, Managing Director at TG hyLIFT

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Every week we introduce you to one of the movers and shakers of some of the leading companies in the solar and renewables industries:

© sonnen

A software for virtual power plants

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With the recently developed software SonnenVPP, electricity storage or other devices can be integrated into a virtual power plant via a simple Internet connection.

© SMA

An app for solar technicians

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Application software on mobile phones or tablets simplify everyday life. That is why SMA has developed the app SMA 360° for solar technicians.

© HTW Berlin

Simulation of battery systems

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The University of Applied Sciences HTW Berlin has released an updated version of the open source simulation software Permod.

© Skytron Energy

Comparison of inverters made simple

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Monitoring services provider AlsoEnergy launches new product: Intelligent reporting that allows the performance of inverters to be compared.

© Dehn SE + Co KG

Combination arrester for the busbar

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The Dehnshield ZP Basic SG from the company Dehn SE is a new combination arrester. It is used in TT and TN-S systems (3+1 circuit) in main power supply systems without external lightning protection.

© Eturnity

Solar calculator for digital consulting

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The solar calculator Eturnity enables efficient and digital customer advice for estimating the potential of a new solar power system.

© Citel

Top products of the week

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Better recording of lightning strikes, greater performance thanks to half cells, testing back sheets out in the field and a versatile and entirely flexible inverter. These are our top products of the week:

© ZSW

Testing back sheets out in the field

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The method known as FTIR spectroscopy (Fourier Transform Infrared) is a non-invasive and fast examination procedure.