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duction facility for turbine hous-ings in the US state of Kansas. This will im-prove the company’s ability to meet the heavy demand for wind turbines in North and South America in the future.The construction of the 28,000 m2 produc-tion plant in Hutchinson is set to start in August. According to Siemens, the first na-celle made in Kansas will leave the factory in December 2010. All the nacelles manu-factured in Kansas will be used for the 2.3

As an alternative to diesel genera-tors for its telecom base station,

the Turkish operator Avea uses wind and solar energy. The hybrid solution consists of a 6 kW wind turbine, wich was manufac-tured by the Scottish firm Proven Energy and a solar panel, installed by Turkish re-seller Girasolar. A hybrid solution was the answer to the problem of low energy sup-ply at times when sun and wind strengths vary.

First nationally produced wind turbines

The province of Chubut, in the Ar-gentinean part of Patagonia, will

have the first wind turbines manufactured in the country. According to Latin American Wind News, these are two prototypes of 1.5 MW, developed and produced in parallel in the province of Chubut by the Argentinean Companies AMPSA and NRG Patagonia. First the plants will be installed in order to obtain relevant international certifications. It is planned to provide the proposed “Vientos de Patagonia” wind farm in Chubut with 40 turbines “made in Argenti-na” of 1.5 MW each. The investment cost amounts to US$ 120 million.

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This edition of SUN & WIND ENERGY con-tains the Special Edition Greece. We are al-so offering our readers further information about the Greek solar market in 11 short films. The episodes of “Greece TV“ were re-corded at the Ecotec trade fair, which took place in Athens in April. Representatives of associations and companies talk to our in-terviewers about their activities in Greece.

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Wind and solar energy for the Turkish telecom market Photo: Proven Energy

The head of the Indian wind power company Suzlon, Tulsi Tanti, has

been awarded the title “Champion of the Earth” by the environment organization of the United Nations (UNEP).

In the early 90s, Tanti managed a textile company in his home country India and suffered from the energy supply shortfalls in the public infrastructure. In 1993, he ac-quired his first two wind turbines. Together with his brothers Vinod, Jitendra and Girish, he founded the company Suzlon in the Indian city of Pune in 1995. Having started with a staff of 20, the four brothers pushed expansion of the company and cre-ated an internationally active wind energy group that today employs about 14,000 people. In the meantime, the group has al-so become the majority shareholder of the German company Repower Systems AG, and Tanti is the Chairman of its supervisory board.

The title “Champion of the Earth” has been awarded since 2004; its purpose is to emphasize that change towards a more sustainable use of natural resources does not simply come by itself. “We have specifi-cally searched for people and organizations

UN honours Suzlon head Tanti

who are true champions, who inspire oth-ers, and who do not allow themselves to be discouraged by a challenge that sometimes seems to be insurmountable”, says Achim Steiner, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.

Head of Suzlon and “Champion of the Earth”: Tulsi Tanti Photo: Suzlon

MW turbines from Siemens. A production capacity of 650 units per year is planned.The factory will be equipped with a direct loading station on the railway. Additionally, the nacelles can be shipped from the port of Catoosa, 400 km away, to their place of deployment. With the new production plant, Siemens will strengthen its presence in the USA – two years ago the company opened a new rotor blade factory in Fort Madison, in the US state of Iowa.

Vestas equips wind farm in Alberta

Canadian company TransAlta has ordered 23 units of the Vestas V90-

3.0 MW wind turbine. The plants will be in-stalled at the company’s Ardenville wind farm in southern Alberta. According to Vestas, the turbines with a total capacity of 69 MW will be delivered in mid-2010. The company expects the park to be completed in early 2011. Moreover, the order includes a five-year service and maintenance agree-ment.

Siemens builds factory for nacelles in Kansas

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The energy group has taken over around 20 % of the shares in the

company C-Power NV from the Belgian town of Zwijndrecht. C-Power is developing and building the offshore wind farm Thornton Bank.

The wind farm is the first on the Belgian coast to have completed approval proce-dures. According to RWE, the necessary grid connection is also already ensured. RWE has taken over the shares from the Belgian investment company Ecotec Finance, and Socofe from Liège, and has al-so bought a further 6.5 % of C-Power from

RWE acquires an interest in Thornton Bankother shareholders. For Fritz Vahrenholt, CEO of RWE Innogy, participation in Thorn-ton Bank is an opportunity to significantly extend the company’s experience in the offshore sector.

After its completion, the wind farm will have a capacity of 300 MW and will produce around 1,000 GWh of electricity annually – enough to supply about 600,000 people with energy. Thornton Bank will be equipped with 60 turbines of the 5 MW class. The first six of these have already been installed in a pilot phase. By 2013, four further project phases will follow.

The Belgian offshore wind farm Thornton Bank: six Repower turbines with a capacity of 5 MW each have already been erected. Photo: Jan Oelker

At the Cape Nelson South wind farm in the Australian state of Vic-

toria, a Repower MM82 turbine was recent-ly visited by one of the country’s cuddly na-tional animals. The Service Technicians Marcus Lindemann and Aaron Campbell (from left) gave the guest the name “Nelson”. The wind farm, with 23 Repower turbines and a total capacity of 44 MW, will be completed in the middle of this year.

Schaaf AG expands in Asia and the USA

In December 2008, the steel fab-rication company Schaaf Indus-

trie AG laid the first foundation stone for the group’s biggest tubular wind turbine tower factory on the Suez Canal in Egypt. Now the company also wants to expand into South-East Asia.

The firm plans to build a further tubu-lar tower works near to the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, using a land area of 55,000 m2. Here 1,000 tower segments will be produced per year. In addition, from 2010 onwards Schaaf intends to construct 400 machine carriers per year in a new factory in India. This year, the company wants to meet the increasing demand for tubular steel towers in the USA with a new location in the east of the country.

Suzlon raises stake in Repower to 76 %

Indian manufacturer Suzlon Energy Ltd. has completed the payment of

€ 30 million for the second tranche of Mar-tifer Group’s stake in the German Repower AG on 30th April. The transaction increases Suzlon’s holding in Repower to 76 %. Suzlon already controls 91 % of the voting rights in Repower through an existing agreement with Martifer.

In December 2008 Suzlon and Martifer entered into an agreement on a revised payment schedule for Martifer’s 22.4 % stake in Repower. The first tranche was ac-quired in December by a payment of € 65 million, the second followed in April. The fi-nal tranche will be completed in May by a payment of € 175 million.

Plan 8 to build wind farms in Chile

The Germany company Plan 8 GmbH wants to construct wind

farms with a total capacity of 320 MW at three locations in Chile.

The company from Eckernförde says that it has already secured 2,800 ha of land. The projects will be carried out in Chile by the newly founded company Plan 8 Energia In-finita Ltda., of which two Chilean partners own 5 % in total. The remaining 95 % stake is owned by Dirk Jesaitis, who is also the sole Managing Director and owner of Plan 8.

The first wind farms from Plan 8 in Chile should go on-grid in 2011 at the latest.

Sowitec Energias Renovables and Enel Latin America want to install

a total of 850 MW of wind energy capacity in the South American country.The two companies have signed a contract for the development of seven wind energy projects in the northern and central re-gions of Chile. Under the terms of the con-tract, the Chilean subsidiary of the German project developer Sowitec International

GmbH has transferred exclu-sive rights to Enel.

As a result, Enel has the right to purchase the wind farms when they are complet-ed. Installations from 60 to 150 MW are planned for the individual projects. The loca-tions are in both the northern network and the central power grid.

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It is one of the world‘s most effi-cient solar thermal installations:

the solar thermal pre-heating system, which Gatorade, a subsidiary of the US-American soft drink producer PepsiCo, has installed this year in a factory in Arizona, US. The company responsible for designing the Arizonan installation was the Austrian manufacturer S.O.L.I.D. GmbH. “We are confident that the installation will reach a specific annual yield of 1,200 kWh/m2”, Harald Blazek from S.O.L.I.D.‘s Project De-velopment department announced. Blazek states three major reasons that would al-low such an extraordinary yield prediction:

high radiation at the Arizonan site of • 5.8 kWh per m2 and day in average (on tilted panel)heating demand at low temperatures • with a maximum of 35 °C (95 °F)installation design optimized for the • above-mentioned frame conditions

A total of 85 S.O.L.I.D. flat plate collectors of the type Gluatmugl GS 10.5 with a col-lector surface of 893 m² (9,605 ft²) pre-heat fresh city water to a maximum tem-perature of 35 °C (95 °F). “The system has several integrated safety features to guar-antee that this temperature will never be exceeded”, explains Blazek. Because right

after the solar system, there is the “Re-verse Osmosis” water cleaning facility – higher temperatures could damage it se-verely.

The system was set up by S.O.L.I.D.’s US subsidiary S.O.L.I.D. USA under the guidance of its CEO, John Ellers. In cooper-ation with one experienced technician from Austria, the installation was complet-ed within a three-month period.

Support from the federal solar tax cred-its and local support in Arizona in coopera-tion with Salt River Project (SRP), the local energy provider, allowed installing this

landmark project which is one of the larg-est process heat installations worldwide today.

The systems began to operate on 31st December 2008. Their respective monitor-ing device will be implemented this sum-mer, because of final works like insulation which have been installed in spring 2009. This means that measurement results con-firming the high yield will be available in summer 2010 at the earliest.

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Arizona: Solar pre-heating for sports drinks

Gatorade has run a solar thermal pre-heating installation since January 2009. It is expected to have extremely high yields of 1,200 kWh per m2 and year which could turn out to be the most effective solar thermal installation worldwide. Photo: Gatorade

Around a year after

the start of construc-tion, Schott Solar has opened its man-ufacturing plant for PV modules and so-lar receivers in Albu-querque, in the US state of New Mexico.

„The United States has the po-tential to become the solar superpow-er of the future“, says Schott Board Chairman Udo Unge-heuer. Together with Bill Richardson, the Governor of New Mexico, the German com-pany Schott Solar put its new solar factory in Albuquerque into operation on Monday.

In a record time of only one year, Schott Solar has managed to erect its production plant for photovoltaic modules and solar re-ceivers south of the city, which is on the

Schott Solar: works in New Mexico opened

Opening of the Schott production site in Al-buquerque: Governor Bill Richardson (left) and Schott Board Chairman Udo Ungeheuer Photo: Martin Frey

historic „Route 66“. For the first time worldwide, these very different high-tech products will be manufactured in the same factory. From now on, 85 MW of photovoltaic modules and 400 MW of re-ceivers will be pro-duced annually. At first, a specialist staff of 350 will work at the 18,000 m2 premises. A further expansion is already

planned. For Schott, this is the second solar factory in the USA; in Massachusetts, pho-tovoltaic modules are manufactured.

By the year 2020, New Mexico plans to produce 20 % of its energy quantity from re-newable resources, 4 % of which will be so-lar energy. This will also accelerate the con-struction of solar thermal power stations.

GE’s 2.5 MW turbine is coming to America

Following its successful debut in Europe and Asia, GE Energy an-

nounced that its 2.5 MW wind turbine will be launched in North America in 2010. About 100 of the 2.5 MW machines have al-ready been installed in seven countries and have compiled more than one million oper-ating hours. The company has received commitments for more than one gigawatt over the next year in the United States and for half a gigawatt to provide the 2.5xl tur-bine for projects across Europe. The turbine builds upon the success of the 1.5 MW ma-chine, according to GE Energy the world’s most widely deployed wind turbine with more than 12,000 now installed.

The electrical system design of the 2.5xl includes a full-power converter and is 50 and 60 Hz compatible, which will facilitate the launch of the 2.5xl in North America. Additionally, the design allows it to be transported with similar equipment as the 1.5xl.

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DuPont opens new photovoltaic technical centre in China

To support material developments for the international photovoltaic solar energy market, supplier DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions opened a photovoltaic (PV) tech-

nical centre at its China global R&D centre in Shanghai. This newly established facility contains three laboratories that focus on processes including cell to module manufactur-ing, PV metallization and PV module and reliability testing. The new PV technology centre provides integrated research, development and technical support for customers in the PV industry in China. The China R&D centre is located in Zhangjiang High-Tech Park, Pudong, Shanghai. The total investment for the centre to date is approximately US$ 25 million. The centre also will provide an enhanced platform to enable technological exchange and research collaborations between DuPont and leading Chinese and Asian universities and research institutes.

First concentrating PV farm in Israel

ZenithSolar, an Israeli start-up company, launched its first “solar

farm” near Tel Aviv on April 26, based on concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) systems. Prof. David Faiman of Ben-Gurion Universi-ty of the Negev (BGU), who developed the system, believes the new system will har-vest more than 70 % of incoming solar en-ergy. “By concentrating solar energy to a level 1,000 times more intense than natu-ral sunlight and taking advantage of the higher efficiencies at which solar cells op-erate under these conditions, only minute amounts of expensive PV material are nec-essary to produce large amounts of pow-er”, Faiman explained. The optical dish is based on a design, utilizing multiple sim-ple flat mirrors mounted on a plastic sur-face. The molded plastic surface is fixed on-to a rigid, high precision metal frame as-sembled onto an azimuth - elevation solar tracking system. Faiman believes that sys-tems such as ZenithSolar’s will eventually be able to operate economically without the need for subsidies.

Night view of the DuPont China global R&D centre in Shanghai Photo: DuPont

PV Cycle, an association repre-senting 70 % of the European PV

industry, partnered with the Provincial Do-main of Chevetogne, Belgium to showcase the first major dismantling of end-of-life so-lar panels in Europe. “The solar modules installed here have supplied clean, renew-able energy for the past 26 years. Now that they have reached their end of life, PV Cycle takes the responsibility to collect and recy-cle them. This is a first, major documenta-tion of the voluntary programme we are about to roll out across Europe”, stated Jan Clyncke, Managing Director of PV Cycle.

Just four months after PV Cycle members signed a joint declaration in the presence of

PV Cycle key partner in major recyling project

the European Commission, in which they committed themselves to set up a full scale take-back and recycling scheme for PV mod-ules across Europe, the Chevetogne event marks a milestone towards achieving the ambitious goal. Chevetogne has been one of the first 16 photovoltaic (PV) pilot plants in-itiated and supported by the European Com-mission in 1983. It has now been the first major site to be dismantled and will hence serve as a learning experience. PV Cycle was founded in 2007 with the specific purpose of implementing the photovoltaic industry’s commitment to set up a voluntary take-back and recycling programme for end-of-life PV modules.

After a trial period at the National Energy Research centre ECN in

Petten, Netherlands, the Solar Academy will offer its trainings at the business park Avantis in Heerlen from May onwards. Solar Academy offers training on photovoltaic en-ergy. Training subjects include cell manu-facturing, technology outlook, policy as-pects and market outlook. The Solar Acade-my was founded by ECN in collaboration

with the regional investment bank LIOF and solar cell producer Solland Solar and is supported by the Province of Limburg and the municipality of Heerlen. Establishing the Solar Academy at Avantis is an impor-tant step in the further development of the regional network of education institutes, knowledge institutes and companies work-ing on renewable energy solutions.

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PV park investments in Greece

Two more PV parks have been con-nected to the public grid by turn-

key EPC contractor Delta Techniki S.A., Athens, Greece, in late April. The two parks are located near Nafplion and are owned by private investors that seek to take ad-vantage of the favourable conditions of the Greek market. A feed-in tariff of €-ct 45/kWh combined with the sunny skies and high solar radiation in Greece (1,500 kWh/kWp on fixed supports) make the country more and more attractive for investments in solar electricity. An experienced contrac-tor can also serve as a consultant for the local market.

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Correction

Correction to the article “Between adjust-ment and migration“ in issue 5/2009:

The large-scale PV system inaugurated in Córdoba by Systaic AG has a capacity of 11 MW instead of 1 MW. We apologize for this mistake.

EU wants to improve energy efficiency of buildings

The European Parliament has passed an amended “Energy Per-

formance of Buildings Directive”. All the buildings that are built after 2018 will have to produce as much energy as they need and thus be “net zero-energy buildings”.

According to the directive, such a net ze-ro-energy building is one “where, as a re-sult of the very high level of energy efficien-cy of the building, the overall annual prima-ry energy consumption is equal to or less than the energy production from renewable energy sources on site”. The EU member states have to ensure this by 31st Decem-ber 2018.

Already now, the member countries are required to develop national plans for in-creasing the number of zero-energy build-ings. Moreover, governments have been asked to set targets for the proportion of zero-energy buildings in the existing build-ing stock by 2015 and by 2020, respective-ly.

Furthermore, the member countries have been requested to develop national action plans by 30th June 2011 specifying measures that are suitable for implement-ing the new directive. The European Parlia-ment announced that this referred primari-ly to the abolishment of legal obstacles and market barriers, as well as to the introduc-tion of new fiscal and financial instru-ments. The suggestions include value add-ed tax reductions for energy-saving goods and services.

The new version of the “Energy Perform-ance of Buildings Directive” was put for-ward by the European Commission in No-vember of last year and has now been passed by the parliament with few modifi-cations. It is estimated that the updated di-rective could reduce the energy consump-tion in the EU by 5 to 6 % and the CO2 emissions by up to 5 % by 2020.

Biomass Secure Power to develop a pellet mill

The company Biomass Secure Power Inc. from Vancouver an-

nounced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Lower Nicola Indian Band that proposes a joint venture to build a 15 MW co-generation power plant and pellet mill. Biomass Secure Power will sup-ply the technical know-how for the devel-opment and building of the plant; Naik De-velopment will provide the land on which the plant will be built and access to fibre for fuel and pellets.

Industries: solar group expands to Asia

The Swiss group 3S Industries is expanding internationally and has

opened subsidiary companies in Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as an office in Kunshan, China. The move will allow the company, which supplies production plants for solar modules, to look after its Asian customers directly. At the beginning of May all three companies in the solar group (Somont, 3S Swiss Solar Systems and Pasan) presented themselves jointly for the first time at the 3rd International SNEC Photovoltaic Power Expo. The 3S group supplies the Asian market with stringers, laminating equipment, testers and turnkey production lines for solar mod-ules. This new Asian 3S headquarters is in a science park that is developing into an im-portant hub for the solar industry in China.

One of the world’s largest suppli-ers of silicon-based tandem thin-

film modules has emerged from the fusion of the companies Sunfilm AG and Sontor GmbH. The new company trades under the name of Sunfilm AG. Its shareholders are the companies Q-Cells SE, Good Energies and NorSun AS.

At its existing locations in Germany, Sunfilm already has an installed production capacity of around 85 MW. An additional ca-pacity of 60 MW is under construction. The company expects that the size and the mar-ket position of Sunfilm will enable it to achieve a competitive advantage due to economies of scale, despite an ever more demanding market. The competence of Sun-film AG represents an additional competi-

Suntech Power joins PV Cycle

In the future, Suntech Power Hold-ings Co. Ltd., the manufacturer of

photovoltaic modules from crystalline sili-con, will be active in the association PV Cycle.

The aim of this association, which has its headquarters in Brussels, is a voluntary return-to-manufacturer and recycling pro-gramme for PV modules that have reached the end of their lifespan. „The two most im-portant principles of solar energy are the sustainability and environmental friendli-ness of power generation“, explained Jerry Stokes, President of Suntech Europe. „We are of the opinion that lifecycle manage-ment and a comprehensive recycling of the modules are a logical extension of this con-cept.“ [According to its own statistics, Sun-tech has sold solar products with a total ca-pacity of over 1.1 GW since it was founded. Therefore, the company wants to take an active role in the development of meaning-ful recycling programmes.]

Jan Clyncke, Managing Director of PV Cycle, welcomes the decision by Suntech Power: „The association now represents around 80 % of the European photovoltaic market and has 36 member companies throughout the world. We hope to gain many more members who want to support a voluntary return-to-manufacturer and re-cycling system.“

PV Cycle was founded in 2007 and is de-veloping concrete plans for a recycling pro-gramme that will reduce the amount of waste to a minimum.

tive advantage, according to Dr. Torsten Brammer, Chief Scientist and a member of the executive board of the new Sunfilm AG: “Sunfilm will take a leading position in re-search and development and will contribute significantly to the technology of solar mod-ules with an even higher performance.”

Q-Cells, the sole owner of Sontor, will hold half the shares in the new Sunfilm AG. Good Energies will own 35 % and NorSun 15 %. At present, the new company has a staff of approximately 400. As soon as the expansion in Großröhrsdorf is completed, new jobs will be created there, a press re-lease says. It is planned that the merger will take legal effect at the end of May 2009. Cur-rently, it still needs to be approved by the re-sponsible competition authorities.

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