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Anna Werner, CEO of Svensk Solenergi, the Swedish Solar Energy Association.
Scandinavia

Sweden: Small house owners invest strongly in energy transition

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Nearly 140 000 Swedish small house owners have now invested over 8 billion Swedish Krona (SEK)  in green technology, Svensk Solenergi reports.

Especially residential PV installations in the Ukraine were destroyed by Russian missiles.
Russian invasion

Ukraine: Over 550 MW PV systems destroyed or damaged

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Russian invasion of Ukraine caused a humanitarian catastrophe, terrible economic consequences, and also led to thousands of ruined destinies. Also renewable energy capacities are severly affected.

Markets:

Sharp and Solarland expand their partnership on the Canary Islands

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Sharp has concluded a partnership with Solarland for industrial, commercial and residential solar systems. The goal is to expand their solar business for PV system installations on Fuerteventura as well as for distribution business across all of the Canary Islands.

BIPV mounting:

Click-on framing kit for BIPV

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Nominated for an Intersolar Award in 2022, Solarstone’s BIPV framing kit is a clever way of framing BIPV modules requiring no screws or glue.

Solar park near Norrkoping/Sweden.
Nordics:

Sweden: Considerable increase of installed PV power plants

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During 2021 a number of 26 500 grid-connected solar power plants were installed in Sweden, with a joint power of 500 MW. That is an increase of 46 percent in comparison to 2020, according to Swedish Energy Agency.

Outlook 2022:

Fronius looks back at the last 30 years and forward to what the future holds

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The coming year will bring numerous innovations from Fronius. The 30th anniversary of the Business Unit Solar Energy will be celebrated in 2022, placing the focus once again on sustainability.

The Kostal Solar Portal provides a quick and comprehensible overview of the solar energy generation and other key information.
Relaunch:

Kostal redesign their Solar Portal 

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The new Kostal Solar Portal was further developed as a relaunch with the Berlin PV monitoring specialist Solytic. With the new Solar Portal, the already more than 100,000 users receive a quick and comprehensible insight into the output of their photovoltaic systems.

The cooperation with Fegime will allow IBC Solar to offer PV systems especially designed for smaller installer companies.
PV wholesaler:

IBC Solar cooperates with wholesale network Fegime

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The international cooperation will simplify the market entry into the PV industry for electrical wholesalers and their customers.

Snow on solar modules has a massively negative impact on the yield of any solar installation, so removing it effectively makes economic sense.
Winter:

Removing snow from solar systems quickly and efficiently

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The global provider of PV cleaning systems SunBrush mobil has launched the new Winter Kit for cleaning up to ten centimetres snow off PV systems of in one run.

The EU TRUST-PV project,  takes advantage of the synergies between solar PV and digitalisation to improve further solar PV components and systems.
TRUST-PV

New EU project to increase performance and reliability of PV systems

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A new EU project, TRUST-PV will support the development of O&M-friendly and grid-friendly solar PV components and solutions in large portfolios of distributed and utility scale PV.

Also available in English, the portal is compatible with the PL series Plexlog data loggers and a dozen other data loggers.

Direct access to the data logger

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Plexlog, a provider of monitoring for photovoltaic plants based in Osnabrück, has revised its cloud-based monitoring system.

With its system-specific power generation profiles meteocontrol GmbH is now providing a new technical consulting service for photovoltaic systems required for PPA projects.

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.