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Combining a landmark historic building with photovoltaics

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The Natural History Museum in Vienna has been fitted with a brand new solar installation. It now supplies twelve per cent of the electricity needed in the listed building.

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Solar modules

Solarwatt now supplying Topcon solar modules

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Module manufacturer Solarwatt has delivered the first solar modules with the efficient Topcon cell technology in the Netherlands, the UK and Germany. The new glass-glass and glass-foil modules with outputs from 420 watts have been available to order since October 2023.

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Top products of the week

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Networking inverters and heat pumps, a half-cell module for construction, commercial storage with 250 kilowatts of output and an invisible cascade heat exchanger. These are our top products of the week:

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10 million mark for installed modules cracked

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The ten millionth solar module from Solarwatt was installed on the roof of a family home in Suffolk, England in June. The total output of the ten million Solarwatt modules is around 3,000 megawatt peak.

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Top products of the week

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A half-cell module with general building authority approval, a large-scale storage unit from used EV batteries, a roof hook for quick installation on pitched roofs and a double glass module with up to 410 watts. These are our top products of the week:

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Solar modules

Half-cell module receives general building authority approval

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Solarwatt has relaunched the GM 3.0 Construct glass-glass module. The half-cell module also has the general building authority approval in Germany.

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Rooftop solar

Solarwatt expands cooperation with Enerix

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The two companies want to further increase the number of rooftop installations realised together each year. The decisive business model here is sector coupling.

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30 years of Solarwatt

Going from start-up to a large company for sector coupling

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The Dresden-based provider has set real milestones in our industry and done pioneering work. A look back that is also a look forward.

© Trina Solar

Top products of the week

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A solar module with building authority approval, a battery for energy storage applications, solar cells starting mass production and a aew solar module for commercial installations. Here are our top products of the week:

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European manufacturing

EU: Industry alliance to expand production of solar components

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Brussels is supporting the expansion of module factories and the production of other solar components. A total of 30 gigawatts of capacity is to be created. Solar Power Europe is proposing a financing fund for this purpose.

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BHC Distributors

Ireland: „The solar PV market is maturing“

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Interview: Neil McKee, member of the leadership team of BHC Distributors Ltd about exploding energy prices, the growing PV market in Ireland, supply chain bottlenecks and quality aspects. The company is a Premium Partner Gold of Solarwatt.

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Top products of the week

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Digital management of charging infrastructure, a thermal imaging module for smartphones, a new heterojunction module with 430 watts and a glass-glass module with building authority approval. These are our top products of the week:

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BIPV

Glass-glass module with building authority approval

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Solarwatt presents the semi-transparent module Vision 60M Construct for building integration. The module is specially designed for use in carports and for the roofing of parking areas.

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Top products of the week

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Smart batteries certified for third-party inverters, a simple BIPV solar module frame system, wallboxes integrated into an EMS and a new generation of colour modules. Here are our top products of the week:

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EV charging

Wallboxes integrated into the EMS

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Solarwatt cooperates with the Dutch energy company Alfen. All charging solutions from Alfen can now be integrated into the energy management system (EMS).

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Top products of the week

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A scalable system for green hydrogen production, a solar roof tile optimised for roofers, modules and their production certified sustainable and a top PV inverter brand for Italy. Here are our top products of the week:

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Solar modules

Sustainability of modules and their production certified

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Solarwatt has received a Cradle to Cradle certificate for its module production in Dresden. Among other things, the company has drastically reduced its carbon footprint - also in the supply chain.

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Acquisition:

Solarwatt acquires Dutch battery electronics company Reconvert

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With the acquisition of Reconvert, Solarwatt is integrating the expertise in the manufacture of power electronics for battery storage into its own company. Reconvert benefits with a view to further business development.

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Sector coupling:

Solarwatt completes sector coupling with Stiebel Eltron

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In future, Solarwatt will sell complete systems with heat pumps together with Stiebel Elektron. The Dresden-based company has thus completed the sector coupling.

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Sustainability:

Solarwatt offers CO2 compensation for solar modules 

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Solarwatt is offering CO2 compensation for solar modules. When purchasing glass-glass modules, Solarwatt customers have the opportunity to purchase certificates that support climate protection projects around the world.

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Emissions:

Solarwatt helps EV drivers to sell greenhouse gas reduction certificates

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Solarwatt supports the owners of fully electric vehicles and e-motorbikes to sell the so-called greenhouse gas reduction certificates to mineral oil companies. These need the GHG certificates to meet their legal CO2 targets.

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Germany:

Berlin: Olympiastadion to generate solar power from its own roof

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The Olympic Stadium Berlin is to generate its own solar electricity in a major investment to drive both climate security and the urban energy transition to clean, green power.

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Commercial solar roofs:

Webasto's battery plant in Schierling completely supplied with solar power

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At the Webasto plant in Schierling, Bavaria, a significant part of the energy demand is now covered by a photovoltaic system. A total of 1,998 solar modules have been installed on the roofs of the production halls in the last two months. They have an output of around 750 kilowatts.

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Germany:

Solarwatt: 3 new production facilities for storage and PV modules

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Solarwatt opened a state-of-the-art module production line with a production capacity of
300 megawatt and two new energy storage production lines.

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European markets:

Solarwatt expands in the UK

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Solarwatt establishes a UK subsidiary, boosts top team and sets up office and warehouse to serve installers and customers.