Chief commercial officer at Saudi Arabian solar PV panels manufacturer Desert Technologies, Majid Al-Refae, highlights in an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has taken great strides in exporting solar panels through several programs that support Saudi manufacturers and facilitate the export of solar panels to all countries of the world.
Desert Technologies is the first Saudi factory to export solar panels to the German market.
Desert Technologies factory, the first Saudi factory to manufacture and export solar panels in the Kingdom and affiliated with the leading company in renewable energy solutions “Desert Technologies” group, signed an agreement with the Swiss/German Group meeco to export its solar panels to Germany to implement several projects in the city of Lambsheim.
New short study by the Energy Watch Group (EWG) finds: Electricity would already be cheaper today with a full supply of 100% renewables
Berlin, Germany — In the coalition negotiations for the new German government, both ambitious climate protection and the reduction of electricity prices play a central role. The previous government still expects only 45% renewables in the electricity mix by 2025.
Germany-based energy utility EnBW announced it is constructing its “Weesow-Willmersdorf” solar park with an installed output of 187 megawatts on an area covering 164 hectares located in Germany at around 26 kilometres northeast of Berlin in Werneuchen, Brandenburg.
Germany-based energy supply company EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG announced that after having received the final official approvals, it closed the acquisition of French developer and operator of wind and solar farms VALECO on 3 June 2019.
BayWa r.e. is building Germany’s first subsidy-free solar park, proving that solar energy can now compete against conventional energy sources in Germany without any financial subsidies. The project Barth V, some 30 kilometres east of Stralsund, has a total capacity of 8.8 MW and construction will start at the beginning of June.
German manufactgurer of energy storage systems, Tesvolt, announced that it is working to establish new production facilities for lithium storage systems with an annual production capacity of over one gigawatt hour (GWh) in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany, which would be Europe’s first gigafactory for battery storage systems.
Germany-based leading asset management software platform for renewable energy industry, 3megawatt, announced it has been named as a finalist for the Digital Energy Innovation Award 2018 organized by Munich Network, which took place between the 14th and 15th of November 2018 at the Fraunhofer Institute in Munich.
Oxford Photovoltaics Germany, a subsidiary of UK-based Oxford Photovoltaics announced last month that it received €15 million in financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to support the transfer of its disruptive perovskite on silicon tandem solar cell technology from lab scale to commercialisation.
Until now, acreage was designated for either photovoltaics or photosynthesis, that is, to generate electricity or grow crops. An agrophotovoltaics (APV) pilot project near Lake Constance in Germany, however, has now demonstrated that both uses are compatible. Dual use of land is resource efficient, reduces competition for land and additionally opens up a new source of income for farmers.
The German PV equipment supplier Schmid Group announced this week that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Industrial Development & Renovation Organization of Iran (IDRO) to start a collaboration to establish a fully integrated photovoltaic manufacturing plant in Iran. The state of the art manufacturing facility will include the entire photovoltaics value chain, including the production of polysilicon wafers, solar cells and modules.
