Press Releases

The technology group Wärtsilä today announced it had signed a contract with Bangladesh-based Summit Group to supply equipment totalling 300 MW. The power plant will be located in Gazipur and comprises eighteen Wärtsilä 46 engines operating on heavy fuel oil. The scope of supply for this project are the engine sets along with auxiliaries. The order is added to Wärtsilä’s order book for the third quarter. This is a fast-track delivery, which will be fully completed in nine months. The equipment is scheduled to be delivered by November 2017 and the power plant is expected to be fully operational in March 2018.

TEMPE, Ariz., Aug. 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Amtech Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASYS), a global supplier of production equipment and related supplies for the solar, semiconductor, and LED markets today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 1,055,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $9.50 per share

BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Aug. 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Linde North America Inc., has successfully commenced supplying ultra-high purity hydrogen and steam to WACKER for its polysilicon plant located in Charleston, Tennessee. WACKER’s state-of-the-art multi-product facility, which recently began operating in Tennessee, can produce 20,000 tons per annum of polysilicon, a basic ingredient in the manufacture of solar panels and semiconductors. Linde’s ultra-high purity hydrogen and steam are essential to WACKER’s production of polysilicon for these consumer markets.

TORONTO, August 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ – As a leading Testing & Certification and Standards Development Organization (SDO), CSA Group is pleased to announce the development of a C450 – currently available as an Express Document (EXP450) – that helps to address the lack of uniform testing requirements in the Photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturing industry.

The leading Dutch sourcing and services company Solar Nederland B.V. is adding the inverters from Zeversolar to its supply range. Customers of Solar Nederland will be supplied directly from the warehouse in Alkmaar en Duiven, which considerably reduces delivery times to the Benelux countries. In Belgium, the inverters will be sold actively by Claessen ELBG.

The Company plans to use the net proceeds of the offering for general corporate purposes, which may include working capital, capital expenditures and potential acquisitions.

Looking at current market demand for renewable electricity documented with Guarantees of Origin in Europe 2017, customer demand is showing impressive signs, with Q2 numbers surging well above comparable figures for 2016, growing a staggering 39%.

Revenue for the second quarter was $10.8 million, an increase of 12.2% over the prior quarter and 189.3% from the same period last year.

he LIVE view is possible with the Company’s PV monitoring platform, which leverages its nearly 300,000 monitored solar energy systems across the United States to track the path of the total solar eclipse and its effect on solar energy generation.

The Digital Energy World Conference, organized by Solarpraxis Neue Energiewelt AG, will highlight the opportunities and risks of digitalization for the energy industry. On September 5, the events of the conference’s opening day will center on the blockchain and its importance for the energy world. On September 6, the focus will shift to the key topics of artificial intelligence (AI), cyber security and big data, which will be discussed from the perspective of the energy and IT industries.