S&C Electric doubles smart grid and renewable energy products capacity

The facilities support S&C's power quality products, which include energy storage integration solutions, reactive compensation systems applied at renewable energy plants and extremely fast uninterruptible power supplies for mission critical power users.

S&C said the expansion will double manufacturing capacity for these products, allowing it to better support global demand for solutions to a wide range of challenges facing today's power grids. The facility is expected to open on August 1, 2012.

S&C Electric doubles smart grid and renewable energy products capacity

United Solar, Baraclit form strategic partnership for PV rooftops in Italy

The addressable opportunity is estimated to be 10 million square meters of Baraclit's industrial rooftop portfolio. The Baraclit building integrated PV (BIPV) configuration complies with requirements of the Italian Feed-In Tariff (FIT) program for "Building Integrated Photovoltaic Plants with Innovative Features".

United Solar, Baraclit form strategic partnership for PV rooftops in Italy

Wello to deploy Penguin wave energy converter at Billia Croo wave test site

Wello's 0.5MW Penguin device, which produces sustainable power through wave energy conversion, has been granted permission for full-scale deployment by Marine Scotland after the technology was verified by Det Norske Veritas (DNV).

Wello to deploy Penguin wave energy converter at Billia Croo wave test site

Suzlon bags $75 million wind tower flanges order

Kamlesh Bhadani, CEO of SEFORGE, said: “This agreement, alongside recent agreements with other tower manufacturers and a large European bearing producer, highlight SEFORGE’s growing presence as an independent parts supplier to wind and related industries. We project that by FY2013, 50 percent of our sales will be from companies outside the Suzlon Group.”

Tulsi Tanti, chairman of Suzlon Group, said: “This is a very important order that underscores our collaborative relationship with other major wind turbine companies the world over.

“Wind has today achieved parity with most conventional sources of energy, beating even gas in per-unit cost in some markets; and it is projected that by 2015 wind will be truly competitive against even coal-based power. With wind contributing a mere three per cent to the world’s energy grid today, we as an industry have an enormous opportunity before us to become a central pillar of the energy mix of the future.”

Suzlon bags $75 million wind tower flanges order