Renewable Energy Systems

Shortening the way to grid parity

Training on PV Systems - Design, construction, operation and maintenance

By Fernando Nuno / Published on Tue, 2010-07-27 12:25

A free series of six webinars will be delivered to provide the required knowledge to design a high performance photovoltaic (PV) installation, entering into economic evaluation and project cash-flow. Additionally, very practical aspects such as the construction, start-up, quality management and testing will be reviewed. Plant operation is described in detail, with special attention paid to control systems, monitoring and information management.

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Conferencia de la Industria Solar

By Fernando Nuno / Published on Thu, 2010-08-26 09:52

The Conferencia de la Industria Solar - España 2010 is one of most relevant conferences in the calendar of the Spanish solar sector. The event has been very well attended over the past three years, attracting around 300 participants each year, underlining the importance of the meeting to the sector. It brings together the industry's experts with the financial world, the media and political representatives.

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Incentives-based ancillary services for power system integrity

By HDK / Published on Wed, 2010-08-18 14:53

A reliable and efficient power system is a necessity for any industrialized society. Governments have to enforce regulations to guarantee that such a power system, in spite of many competing stakeholders, participants, companies and regulating agencies can be operational.

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Report from IEEE-PES 2010 General Meeting and Conference

By Roman Targosz / Published on Wed, 2010-08-11 11:43

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and PES - Power and Energy Society

IEEE is the largest non-profit technical association with nearly 400,000 members in almost 200 countries.

IEEE has about 30% share in world’s technical literature on electrical engineering.

PES, Power and Energy Society is the third largest society in IEEE (39 of them all together) with the largest number of developed and under-development standards of about 400.

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2nd CSP Training series : solar resource, solar desalination and market figures

By Fernando Nuno / Published on Fri, 2010-08-06 12:03

Following the first training series dedicated to Concentrated Solar Power technology description, we launch a second one devoted to market aspects, special applications (solar desalination) and solar resource assessment.

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Training on PV Systems - Design, construction, operation and maintenance

By Fernando Nuno / Published on Tue, 2010-07-27 12:25

A free series of six webinars will be delivered to provide the required knowledge to design a high performance photovoltaic (PV) installation, entering into economic evaluation and project cash-flow. Additionally, very practical aspects such as the construction, start-up, quality management and testing will be reviewed. Plant operation is described in detail, with special attention paid to control systems, monitoring and information management.

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