Key figures of the ersol Group as of 31 December 2008   Million euros (as per IFRS) 2008 2007 Change Revenue 309.6 160.2 plus 93.3% EBIT 70.7 22.3 plus 216.4% EBIT margin 22.8% 13.9% – Earnings before taxes (EBT) 65.1 13.4 plus 385.1% Earnings per share (in €) 4.39 0.85 plus 416.5% Employees (as of [...]

Sopogy, Inc. MicroCSP™ Solar Collector “SopoNova 4.0™” won Gold in the Plant Engineering Product of the Year 2008 in the category of Electrical Power. The Plant Engineering Product of the Year Awards honor the most innovative and useful products introduced to the industrial plant engineering market each year. The Gold, Silver, and Bronze Awards in [...]

Renewables: AREVA AREVA, through its subsidiary Multibrid, has executed a binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the company Wetfeet Offshore Windenergy GmbH, to supply eighty M5000 turbines for the offshore Global Tech 1 wind farm (400 MW). Under the terms of the agreements, AREVA will also provide commissioning, testing and maintenance services. Foundations, transport and [...]

EU Member States expressed their support for a Commission proposal to reduce the electricity consumption of circulators – which will save the equivalent of Ireland’s yearly electricity consumption – during today’s Ecodesign Regulatory Committee meeting. The Regulation is expected to create 7,000 jobs and make electricity savings of €2.2 billion by 2020. "The measure is [...]

I have found a great web page where you can calculate annual wind turbine energy output: http://www.sustainableenergyworld.eu/calculate-windturbine-annual-energy I will not go in to details about the correctness of the method used there. But I guess this could be of help to receive some rough estimates on the energy output. In practice big differences can occur, [...]

  –Conversion Efficiencies Independently Verified by the Fraunhofer Institute SAN FRANCISCO and WUXI, China, March 27, 2009 /PRNewswire-Asia via COMTEX/ — Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), the world’s largest photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer, today announced that it is routinely utilizing the Pluto technology to produce PV cells with conversion efficiencies of approximately 19% [...]

MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA – March 24, 2009 – ICP Solar Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: ICPR.OB, FRANKFURT: K1U.F), a developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary solar panels and products, today announced that it has begun selling what it considers to be some of the longest-lasting solar lighting products on the market today. The Company’s Sunsei® solar lights, [...]