Four universities of applied sciences are launching a new platform for Alpinsolar projects. This provides an overview of the current status of all planned, rejected and realised alpine solar plants in Switzerland. The aim is to improve transparency and acceptance. The reason: many of the projects meet with resistance.
Global renewable energy developer and solutions provider BayWa r.e. has successfully completed three PV self-consumption projects for Merck and Tetra Pak.
The Bernese utility BKW is stepping up the expansion of solar energy: following the launch of the Belpmoossolar project, the Group is now presenting six Alpinsolar projects in its own canton. All of the planned plants will produce almost 100 gigawatt hours of electricity per year.
The plans for the expansion of solar generators high up in the Alps are extensive. But which projects will actually be realised is far from certain.
The project pipeline is expected to further increase to 20 gigawatts by 2025. Most of these are solar plants. However, Q Energy also wants to expand its share of storage and enter the hydrogen market.
Solar customers of Eon can hand over the operational management of their plants to Enovos Renewables O&M in future. The offer includes monitoring, regular maintenance and any repairs.
R.Power Group companies have signed contracts with Nomad Electric and Onde for the implementation of 135 photovoltaic farms worth PLN 334 million (EUR 73 million).
The contract with a subsidiary of the state-owned passenger and freight transport operator SNCF Voyageurs has further expanded Axpo’s marketing of renewable energies in France.
Hevel Energo Servis, the Hevel Group’s energy service business unit, has completed the construction of an off-grid solar-plus-diesel project in Chukotka that will be the first standalone PV installation in the Russian Arctic.
French independent power producer (IPP) Sonnedix has successfully started operations of its 9.8MW Simiane cluster of three solar PV plants, in the southeast of France.
Our guest author Volker Korrmann, General Manager of Ewind (Berlin/Germany), describes the concept of “Erosion Protection Solar Systems”.
