INDUSTRY UPDATES
Vestas | February 11, 2021
Vestas announced designs for a 15 megawatt (MW) seaward wind turbine on Wednesday, with the Danish firm wanting to introduce a model one year from now prior to sloping up creation in 2024.
As per the Aarhus-settled organization, the monster V236-15.0 MW turbine will actually want to create about 80 gigawatt hours out of every year.
This, it claims, would be sufficient to control roughly 20,000 European family units, saving more than 38,000 metric huge loads of carbon dioxide all the while.
Vestas is the furthest down the line organization to push forward with the improvement of a sizeable seaward wind turbine. GE Renewable Energy's Haliade-X can be arranged to 12, 13 or 14 MW, while Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy is chipping away at a 14 MW turbine which can likewise be helped to 15 MW whenever required.
As innovation has created, the size of wind turbines has expanded. In a new report, industry body WindEurope said the normal appraised limit of turbines introduced in Europe a year ago was 8.2 MW, a 5% expansion on 2019. Limit alludes to the greatest sum a turbine can deliver, not really the thing it is presently producing.
Wednesday likewise saw Vestas discharge its yearly report for 2020. The firm said its benefit for the year came in at 771 million euros ($934 million), somewhat better than the 700 million euros it detailed for 2019. Vestas' income in 2020 hit 14.8 billion euros, a 22% expansion contrasted with 2019.
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SOLAR+STORAGE
Tigo Energy Inc. | November 18, 2021
Tigo Energy Inc., the solar industry’s worldwide leader in Flex MLPE (Module Level Power Electronics), announced that Australia’s SCE Energy Solutions has deployed more than 7MW of monitored solar energy across 800 commercial, residential, and rural solar installations. SCE has leveraged the Tigo Energy Intelligence (EI) software platform to expand its service-oriented approach to maximize the benefits of the Tigo platform for its clients across Australia.
SCE Energy Solutions uses the advanced chart pages for fleet management and kiosk view from Tigo Energy to enable two unique services for clients. Using the data provided by the EI software platform, SCE conducts weekly maintenance checks for system owners to ensure their systems are operating at peak performance. The kiosk view of the EI platform enables SCE to set up a screen for residential and commercial system owners through which they can showcase energy production and their commitment to renewable energy customers, colleagues, and friends.
“In the Tigo monitoring system we have the best available technology to improve the ROI for our customers, and it has a tremendously positive impact for the many businesses that previously wastes up to 50 percent of the energy they pay for. The kiosk feature of the Tigo Energy Intelligence system provides a powerful way for us to make solar visible, displaying the live energy statistics of our customers’ systems, which they can proudly showcase in public spaces at their business locations.”
Jon De Martin, CEO and managing director at SCE Energy Solutions
SCE Energy Solutions has used Tigo TS4 Flex MLPE optimizers with remote module level monitoring since 2012. Since that time, SCE has implemented Tigo’s technology to service system owners throughout the Commonwealth of Australia, monitor their fleet remotely, and help customers highlight their investments in solar energy. Additionally, SCE provides critical feedback to Tigo for continuous improvement to the platform.
“We support installers’ revenue and strategic goals through a holistic approach to energy management, and SCE Energy Solutions is the ideal Tigo customer because they push the technological envelope and embrace innovation,” says Archie Roboostoff, software vice-president at Tigo Energy. “The SCE team exercises every aspect of our EI software solution to service their customers, reduce truck rolls, optimize energy generation, and maximize solar ROI for customers across Australia. We greatly appreciate the dedication SCE brings to their system owners.”
With more than 40,000 sites monitored worldwide, Tigo Energy processes 47,000 data points per second, resulting in almost a petabyte of monitoring and efficiency data. The platform is available on the internet and as a mobile application named Tigo EI on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
About Tigo Energy
Tigo Energy is the worldwide leader in Flex MLPE (Module Level Power Electronics) with innovative solutions that increase solar energy production, decrease operating costs, and significantly enhance safety of solar energy systems. The Tigo TS4 platform maximizes the benefit of solar and provides customers with the most scalable, versatile, and reliable MLPE solution available. Tigo was founded in Silicon Valley in 2007 to accelerate the adoption of solar energy worldwide. Tigo systems operate on seven continents and produce gigawatt hours of reliable, clean, affordable, and safe solar energy daily. With a global team, Tigo Energy is dedicated to making the best MLPE on earth so more people can enjoy the benefits of solar.
About SCE Energy Solutions
SCE Energy Solutions is an award-winning sustainability business that prides itself on providing only the highest quality product and latest technologies available for their commercial, rural and residential customers. They have made it their mission to find technologies where clients can gain control of energy costs. This means developing a renewable energy system that is simple & easy to use with predictable payments and a 25-year warranty. We employ a unique five-step-plan: schedule a call, design the best possible system, install that system, get environmentally certified, and then SCE conducts weekly performance checks. They service all areas of Australia and are located in Concord NSW, Australia.
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STRATEGY AND BEST PRACTICES
CenterPoint Energy | June 06, 2022
CenterPoint Energy recently announced that its green hydrogen project in Minneapolis is operational. The project uses renewable electricity to safely split hydrogen from water, and the zero-carbon hydrogen is then blended at low concentrations with natural gas in the utility's local distribution system.
CenterPoint Energy is one of the first natural gas utilities in the United States to produce and add green hydrogen to its distribution system. Because there are no carbon emissions from either its production or end-use, green hydrogen has the potential to be an important zero-carbon supplement to conventional natural gas.
CenterPoint Energy is Minnesota's largest natural gas utility, serving approximately 900,000 residential and business customers in the state. The green hydrogen project is located on existing company property near downtown Minneapolis. The system was designed and packaged by a Minnesota company and the major equipment for the project was made in the U.S.
"CenterPoint Energy is committed to evaluating innovative solutions that reduce carbon emissions and advance a clean energy future, With this pilot project, we are exploring the potential of green hydrogen as a safe, zero-carbon energy resource that can be delivered through our local gas distribution systems to benefit both our customers and the environment."
-Scott Doyle, Executive Vice President, Utility Operations.
The pilot project's main purpose is to obtain operational experience with green hydrogen technology and how it may be best integrated into the local natural gas distribution system to reduce the carbon content of provided energy.
The project's one-megawatt electrolyzer uses renewable energy to produce up to 60 Dekatherms (432 kg) of hydrogen gas per day while requiring about two gallons of water per minute. Before entering the hydrogen production system, the water is taken from the municipal water supply and extensively filtered.
Green hydrogen produced by the system is added to natural gas in a low-pressure part of CenterPoint Energy's local distribution pipeline system in low percentages (up to 5%). Green hydrogen is estimated to save around 1,200 tons of CO2 per year as a replacement for natural gas that would otherwise be consumed.
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