Photovoltaic Tracking News
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Ideematec establishes Spanish subsidiary to grow South Europe and LATAM sales
Ideematec, a leading global supplier of solar tracking systems, has established a subsidiary in Spain to support growing markets across Spain, Portugal, Italy and Latin America. With over twelve years of industry experience, Ideematec has a presence in 25 countries across six continents. Experiencing rapid expansion, the company has shipped over 3GW of trackers worldwide and has seen a ...
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TÜV Rheinland Verifies that Soltec’s Teamtrack can increase the gain of a Solar PV Plant by 6.2%
Soltec, leading firm in the manufacture and supply of single-axis solar trackers and part of Soltec Power Holdings, launches its first technical document about the gain that its Backtracking algorithm, TeamTrack, can generate in a photovoltaic plant. According to this study, Soltec’s TeamTrack is capable of increasing the gain of a photovoltaic solar plant by up to 6.2% on regular ...
By Soltec
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Soltec reaffirms its position as the third largest supplier of solar trackers worldwide
Soltec, a leading company in the manufacture and supply of solar single-axis trackers belonging to Soltec Power Holdings, consolidates its leadership position as the third largest supplier of solar trackers worldwide, according to its recent ‘Global PV tracker report – 2020’ published by the information provider IHS Markit. Soltec has supplied 9.2% of the world’s total ...
By Soltec
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Soltec will supply its SF7 Bifacial trackers for a 101-MW plant in Antofagasta, Chile
Soltec, leading firm in the manufacture and supply of single-axis solar trackers and part of Soltec Power Holdings, supplies its SF7 Bifacial tracker for a 101-MW project. This project is being developed in the region of Antofagasta (Chile) by Global Power Generation, Spanish company within the Naturgy group. Soltec, with a large market share in this South American country, has a project track ...
By Soltec
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Mississippi Public Service Commission Gives Green Light to 1,000-Acre Solar Farm
The Mississippi Delta will soon be home to the largest utility-owned solar farm in the state, after receiving approval from the Mississippi Public Service Commission. Recurrent Energy, a solar facility manufacturer, will build the project on behalf of Entergy Mississippi, LLC. The project should be complete by no later than mid-2022. Once built, Entergy will assume ownership for the life of the ...
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Giant Nevada solar project set for federal approval; Global PV installs forecast to rise 14%
Nevada solar plus storage project clears environmental hurdle The 690 MW Gemini solar plus storage project in Nevada looks set to receive federal approval after the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a favorable Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) December 30. BLM will close its final comment period on January 27 and will issue a Record of Decision in the Federal Register by ...
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DHYBRID & Blockpower Supply Self-Sufficient Energy System for Luxury Lodge in Kruger National Park
Microgrid with Solar Power System and Battery Storage Ensures Stable and Environmentally Friendly Energy The off-grid experts DHYBRID and Blockpower have implemented an environmentally friendly, independent renewable energy supply for the Cheetah Plains Lodge, located in the world-famous Kruger National Park in South Africa. The system comprises three solar plants with 895 photovoltaic modules ...
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Tumbling Costs for Wind, Solar, Batteries Are Squeezing Fossil Fuels
Coal and gas are facing a mounting threat to their position in the world’s electricity generation mix, as a result of the spectacular reductions in cost not just for wind and solar technologies, but also for batteries – according to research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). BNEF’s latest report on the levelized costs of electricity, or LCOE, for all the leading technologies finds that ...
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Soltec to Serve Australian Solar Tracker Market
Soltec is expanding to serve Australia with an office in Sydney. The new office will execute on Soltec’s activities in the southern country, including project equipment supply that leverage Soltec’s 14 years’ history as PV tracking specialist. Following on its customers’ successes in the Americas and about 2 GW supplied or underway, Soltec is leading in regional markets ...
By Soltec
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Soltec Supplies 13 MW of Solar Trackers to PV Plant in Oregon
Soltec is supplying complete tracker equipment to the Eagle Point solar PV plant located in the state of Oregon by leading project developer Cypress Creek Renewables. “Our trackers require the fewest piles per megawatt and keep earth grading operations to a minimum, preserving the site’s wetlands and fragile ecosystem,” reported José María Lozano, Engineering ...
By Soltec
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Saudi Aramco sees PV storage as most economic at under 4 storage hours
Speaking at the MENASol 2016 conference in Dubai on May 25, Polega discussed Saudi Aramco’s comparative analysis of the future levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) for storage-backed CSP and PV with storage. According to the company's scenario, PV with lithium-ion battery storage is also more cost-competitive than CSP for storing up to seven hours in 2021 and of up to 15 storage hours in ...
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BrightSource Launches Next Generation Solar Field Technologies
BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading concentrating solar power technology (CSP) company today announced advanced solar field technologies currently being deployed at the 121 megawatt (MW) Ashalim Solar Thermal Power Station located in Israel’s Negev Desert. The fourth generation of BrightSource’s solar field technologies features improvements to the heliostats, solar field ...
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Prothea advised on the successful purchase of 6,7 MW solar photovoltaic farms operating in Italy in a deal worth €28,5M.
Prothea, an independent renewable energy advisory firm, announced today that its customers have entered into a definitive agreement with Kirchner Solar GmbH for the purchase of the 100% stake of Sonnen Systeme Italia S.r.l, an Italian company owning and operating a portfolio of 6,7 MW dual-axis solar photovoltaic parks near Alessandria (Piedmont region) in northern Italy. Prothea acted as ...
By Prothea srl
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Solar Trackers - Global Market Size, Average Price, Competitive Landscape and Key Country Analysis to 2020
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Solar Trackers - Global Market Size, Average Price, Competitive Landscape and Key Country Analysis to 2020 ...
By ReportLinker
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Concentrated Solar Distribution and Research, Inc.
(CSDR) is a US manufacturer of Concentrated Photovoltaic Dual Axis tracked power systems featuring the SC-90 25KWp Power Tracker. Currently, their global manufacturing capacity is at 300MW annually and is expected to achieve 600MW by mid 2014. The SC-90 Power Tracker System offers the lowest cost per kW, using 10000m2 per MWp and provides reliability and performance guaranteed for 30 years, ...
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Duke Energy Renewables acquires solar power project at the University of Arizona´s Tech Park
Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) has acquired a commercial solar power project located within the University of Arizona's (UA) Science and Technology Park (UA Tech Park) in Tucson, in an area dedicated to solar energy. Duke Energy Renewables, a commercial business unit of Duke Energy, purchased the 6-megawatt (MW) Gato MontesSolar Power Project from AstroSol Inc. The project is expected to achieve ...
By Duke Energy
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Canadian Solar Modules Installed in Pennsylvania`s Largest Solar Energy Installation
Canadian Solar Inc.(the "Company", "we" or "Canadian Solar") (NASDAQ: CSIQ), one of the world's largest solar companies, today announced its modules have been installed in a 5MW (AC) solar plant located in a dense agricultural area of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The environment-friendly solar project, dubbed Keystone, was developed by Community Energy Solar and constructed by groSolar. ...
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Mechatron offering CPV tracker insight at CPV USA 2012
European tracker manufacturers Mechatron will be joining the exhibition at CPV USA 2012 on 15-16 October in San Jose, CA. Reliability has been a key issue for the CPV market, affecting the technology’s bankability, performance and commercialization potential. Increasingly, industry players have been looking for new companies and innovative solution providers to remedy this, particularly ...
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Tucson Electric Power Plans 6-Megawatt SunPower C7 Tracker System
Reinforcing its commitment to promote the use of renewable energy, Tucson Electric Power (TEP) has modified an existing agreement with SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR) to incorporate six megawatts of its new C7 Tracker technology into a planned facility that will also include two megawatts of SunPower's T5 Solar Roof Tile technology. The SunPower C7 Tracker is a solar photovoltaic tracking system ...
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Rudolph/Libbe builds unique ‘solar tracker’ system for Ohio Air National Guard 180th Fighter Wing
Rudolph/Libbe Inc. is designing and building a ‘solar tracker’ system for the Ohio Air National Guard 180th Fighter Wing in Swanton. The 35-kilowatt solar energy system will use a ground-mounted, dual-axis tracker application which will allow the solar panels to tilt and rotate, following the sun to operate at maximum efficiency and produce the most power. The project, which is one ...
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