By Bernd Radowitz in Berlin The Swedish technology start-up plans a pilot recycling plant in 2020 and a larger facility at its gigafactory in 2022 Read Full Article Here For more great articles: www.rechargenews.com
By mmillikin In the future, the Mercedes-Benz plant in Untertürkheim will manufacture and assemble parts of electric powertrains (eATS). The eATS consists essentially of three subsystems: an electric motor, its power electronics and the transmission. The power-transmission wheelset and other components such as the electrohydraulic control system will also be manufactured in Untertürkheim. The assembly…
By Kelly Pickerel PSE&G has placed its largest solar farm to-date in-service on a brownfield site in Pennsauken, New Jersey. The 15.2-MW Pennsauken Solar Farm is part of PSE&G’s Solar 4 All program. A company that manufactured porcelain-enameled cast-iron bath fixtures first developed the 32-acre site in the 1920s. From 1973 on, the site was…
By Billy Ludt Array Technologies, the manufacturers of single-axis solar trackers, and EDF Renewables North America, one of the largest renewable energy developers in North America, announced a new partnership between the two companies. This agreement provides EDF Renewables with nearly 2 GW of reliable single-axis solar tracking equipment supplied by Array Technologies to deploy…
By Kelsey Misbrener Hormel Foods Corporation and IGS Solar have announced the completion of the solar energy project at the Hormel Foods Swiss American Sausage Company facility in Lathrop, California. The completion was celebrated at a Flip the Switch Event yesterday at the manufacturing facility, which produces a variety of pepperoni and salami for foodservice…
By [email protected] Thanks to generous feed-in tariffs and other incentives, Germany’s wind and solar installations have soared over the past two decades to the point that renewables could cover half of the country’s electricity demand. But given technology and market conditions, a substantial portion of renewable power, primarily wind, is pushed to other European countries…
By [email protected] Chandu Visweswariah is founding president and CEO of Utopus Insights, a New York-based energy analytics company acquired last year by Vestas. *** Competitive markets are wonderful crucibles of innovation. With decades of accumulated manufacturing experience for use in portable electronics, lithium-ion battery prices have steadily dropped. As a result, larger battery products for…
By WPED Staff HUBER+SUHNER, a manufacturer of components and system solutions for electrical and optical connectivity, launched its fire-resistant RADOX OFL (Oil & Gas Flexible Lightweight) cable solution, providing the offshore industry with a safe way to reduce platform weight. Featuring a lightweight and compact design, the RADOX OFL cables reduce weight and space by…
By CEBN Contributor Originally published November 8, 2019 in the Corpus Christi Caller TimesThe industrial sector is an important and growing producer and end user of America’s vast energy supplies. As U.S. manufacturing, refining, and exports grow, so too do the energy demands on our nation’s industrial centers. From 2017 to 2018, industrial energy use…
By Kelsey Misbrener The International Trade Commission held its midterm hearing about Section 201 tariffs on crystalline solar panels on December 5. Pro- and anti-tariff advocates packed the large rectangular room to voice their concerns on a sunny winter day in Washington, D.C. Pro-tariff players and TRQ A number of domestic module manufacturers led by…
By Kelly Pickerel Lithium-iron phosphate battery manufacturer Blue Planet Energy has responded to California’s energy crisis, spurred by recent wildfires and Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) events, with a sales incentive for battery backup systems for home and business owners. Fire-safe Blue Ion 2.0 batteries from Blue Planet Energy enable power from different generation sources,…
By Kelly Pickerel After completing successful solar panel installations with roof recovers at plants in Peachtree City, Georgia, and Adelanto, California, McElroy Metal recently completed a third solar conversion with its plant in Clinton, Illinois. Inovateus Solar installed 1,116 Hanwha Q-Plus L-G42 350W panels on the facility in Clinton. The system is rated at 390.6…
By Billy Ludt Soltec, a manufacturer and supplier of single-axis solar trackers and related services in large ground-mount PV projects, has prepared a white paper that presents the results obtained from a yearlong study at Soltec’s Bifacial Tracker Evaluation Center (BiTEC) in Livermore, California. BiTEC led a study from September 2018 to September 2019 on…
By [email protected] COPENHAGEN — Demands for local content and manufacturing are growing louder in many offshore wind markets, and that includes the world’s most advanced and locally supplied market: Europe. Tensions around local content are likely to increase as deployment ramps up in new European markets, with France, Ireland, Poland and the Baltic countries adding…
By [email protected] (Bengt Halvorson) The Polestar 2, with its Swedish engineering pedigree and Chinese manufacturing base, has been shaping up to be an interesting alternative to the Tesla Model 3. And now Polestar is reassuring those interested in the electric hatchback that, at least for some parts of the world, it’s arriving soon. The automaker…