Availon wins 78MW of wind turbine servicing contracts at Husum Wind expo

Rheine, 01/10/2015. Availon, the leading cross-brand provider of wind turbine generator services, announced today that it signed new contracts for the servicing of 48 wind turbine generators at the Husum Wind trade fair. The contracts represent an additional 78MW of capacity placed under the care of Availon. The turbines involved include Vestas V80 and V90, […]

Yaskawa to celebrate 100th anniversary while expanding into renewable energy and marine with The Switch technology

Yaskawa Electric Corporation, a world leader in industrial robotics, electrical drives and frequency converters, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. The company is arranging special events worldwide to mark this special milestone. In Finland, Yaskawa will be participating in the Technologia 2015 exhibition in Helsinki, Finland, together with its Finnish subsidiary, The Switch, which […]

The Switch opens new headquarters in Helsinki

Helsinki, Finland, September 9, 2015 – The Switch, a leading supplier of megawatt-class electrical drives for wind energy, marine and industrial applications, announced today the official opening of its new global headquarters in Helsinki. The new location will maintain the company’s ability to effectively and efficiently meet the needs of its international stakeholders. “The main […]

Renewable NRG Systems Closes LiDAR Deal with VENTUS INGENIERÍA

Renewable NRG Systems (RNRG), a designer and manufacturer of decision support tools for the global renewable energy industry, has announced today the sale of its WINDCUBE® v2 LiDAR to VENTUS, a leading Uruguayan wind energy engineering consultancy firm. VENTUS will use the LiDAR for its wind resource assessment campaigns, power curve verification, and wind farm […]

Availon opens brand new international headquarters in Germany

Rheine, Germany: Availon announced today the opening of their new global headquarters in Rheine. This move is a direct result of the tremendous growth that the wind turbine service provider has recently experienced. Over the last three years, Availon’s workforce almost doubled to reach 380 employees. “Eight years after establishing Availon, we are opening a […]

New online platform Wiki-Cleantech to facilitate renewables technical knowledge exchange

Wiki-Cleantech is a free and collaborative knowledge online platform designed to gather all renewable energy scientific and technology information in one easily searchable place. It includes technical papers and presentations on wind, solar, biomass and other clean energy technologies, contributed by the industry and research communities. Wiki-Cleantech was created to give the opportunity to clean […]

Renewable NRG Systems introduces SymphoniePRO™

Renewable NRG Systems (RNRG), a designer and manufacturer of decision support tools for the global renewable energy industry, has launched today a new data logger that is specifically engineered to improve the performance of wind and solar measurement campaigns. Building on RNRG’s well-known Symphonie series of user-friendly loggers, the SymphoniePRO logger brings significant upgrades in […]

Windenergieanlagen trotzen Sturmtief Niklas

Sturmtief Niklas ist keine Gefahr für Windenergieanlagen, auch wenn die orkanartigen Windgeschwindigkeiten vielerorts Bäume entwurzeln und Dächer beschädigen. „Wir hatten bislang kaum mehr als eine Handvoll Anlagen für eine gewisse Zeit in der automatischen Sturmabschaltung“, sagt am Dienstagnachmittag Ulrich Schomakers, Geschäftsführer des über 1450 Windenergieanlagen betreuenden Service-Unternehmens Availon aus Rheine. Ab Windgeschwindigkeiten, die über zehn […]

Atlantis tidal turbine chooses PMG solution from The Switch

Vantaa, Finland, April 9, 2015 – The Switch, a supplier of megawatt-class permanent magnet (PM) generator and full-power converter packages for wind power and other renewable energy applications, received an order to deliver a medium-speed generator for use in the Atlantis Resources Ltd AR1500 turbine drive train. During March 2015, Atlantis confirmed an order with […]

Americas: Renewable NRG Systems nails wind Lidar deal with NOAA

Renewable NRG Systems, a designer and manufacturer of decision support tools for the global renewable energy industry, announced today the recent sale of two WINDCUBE 200S 3D Scanning Doppler Lidars to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). WINDCUBE 200S Lidars incorporate advanced techniques to measure the wind components on a large scale for short term […]

Service für Windenergieanlagen boomt

Unabhängige Dienstleister behaupten starke Position gegenüber Anlagenherstellern. Availon Geschäftsführung meldet hohen Kundenzuwachs. Rheine, 18.05.2015. Immer mehr Windanlagenbetreiber vertrauen ihre Windmühlen unabhängigen Serviceanbietern an und kehren dem Herstellerservice den Rücken. Das berichtet der unabhängige Komplettanbieter für Serviceleistungen rund um Windenergieanlagen Availon. „Das starke Wachstum des Vorjahres setzt sich 2015 bei uns und in der Branche fort“, […]

Availon records steady growth in Japan

Rheine, 14/09/2015 – Availon, the leading cross-brand provider of wind turbine generator services, announced today positive developments of its business  Japan, a market where they have received an increasing number of orders for main wind turbine generator components. Availon addresses the needs of the booming Japanese market in collaboration with local company EOS Engineering & […]

KIC InnoEnergy mobilizes 80M euros of investment for 65 innovation projects

Kic Innoenergy announced today the 2014 results of its sustainable energy innovation project support programme, which recorded 28 newly enrolled high potential project consortia in the space of just one year, adding up to 65 new projects since 2013. The success of this investment programme, which aims to boost sustainable energy innovation in Europe, is […]

The Switch receives new order of PM shaft generators from WE Tech Solutions

Vantaa, Finland, March 24, 2015 – The Switch, a supplier of megawatt-class permanent magnet (PM) generator and full-power converter packages for wind power and other renewable energy applications, received another order to deliver two PM shaft generators to WE Tech Solutions of Finland. At the end of February 2015, WE Tech Solutions placed another order […]

Availon United Wind Services hits 2GW milestone

Availon announced today that its portfolio of wind turbine under maintenance has reached the 2GW milestone since its foundation in 2007. In just six years, Availon has established itself as global leader of multi-brand wind turbine maintenance services to reckon with. Availon has experienced steady growth and currently employs a workforce of around 300 employees. […]

JA Solar Module Performance in Extreme Environments Certified by China Quality Certification Center

SHANGHAI, China, February 11, 2014 – JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq:JASO) (“JA Solar” or the “Company”), one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-performance solar power products, today announced that the performance of the Company’s solar modules in extreme environments has been certified by the China Quality Certification Center (“CQC”), China’s largest professional certification […]

Marine News: The Switch signs deal with WE Tech for permanent magnet shaft generators

Vantaa, Finland, February 17, 2014 – The Switch, a leading supplier of megawatt-class permanent magnet generators, motors and frequency converters, received a significant order from WE Tech Solutions Oy of Vaasa, Finland for four permanent magnet (PM) shaft generators. Coupled together with WE Tech’s WE Drive™, these PM shaft generators represent game-changing technology for merchant […]

JA Solar Multi-Si Solar Cells Surpass 19% Conversion Efficiency

Shanghai, China, February 18, 2014 – JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq:JASO) (“JA Solar” or the “Company”), one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-performance solar power products, today announced that its multi-crystalline silicon (“multi-Si”) solar cells have surpassed 19% conversion efficiency. This latest improvement in efficiency, achieved using advanced cell technology recently developed by […]

YASKAWA brings the full range of The Switch advanced drive trains to Japan

YASKAWA Electric Corporation (“YASKAWA”), a global manufacturer of servomotors, controllers, inverters, and industrial robots, today announced that it will be the sole supplier of The Switch megawatt-class permanent magnet generator (PMG) and full-power converter (PMG) advanced drive train packages for wind power and other renewable energy applications to the Japanese market. The Switch products will […]