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Windenergy - 24.01.2012: The Danish company Vestas Wind Systems A/S wants to reduce its costs by cutting more than 2,300 jobs by the end of this year. This was announced by the company at a press conference in Copenhagen in January. Vestas wants to cut its fixed costs by € 150 million by the end of 2012. This means that in the coming months 2,335 jobs will be lost, of which 1,300 will be in Denmark. Administration jobs will be particularly affected. If the tax advantages for manufacturers of wind turbines in the United States are cancelled at the end of the year, as the company fears, 1,600 jobs in the factories in the USA will also have to be cut, says Vestas.
source: Bielefelder Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

In the first six months of 2011, 101 offshore wind turbines totalling 348.1 MW were fully grid connected. Overall 11 offshore wind farms were under construction. Once completed, they will represent a total installed capacity of 2,844 MW. In Europe, as of 30 June 2011, there are 1,247 offshore wind turbines fully grid connected with a total capacity of 3,294 MW in 49 wind farms spread over 9 countries. The work carried out on these wind farms during the first six months of 2011 is presented below:

12.06.2011 Mainz,   GermanyConsumers will soon be able to rely on clean solar electricity from the Southern Harz now that Mainz Solar GmbH is installing a solar system in Ilfeld that will feature 24,000 modules. Mainz Solar is a joint venture between SCHOTT Solar and Stadtwerke Mainz AG. 3 S Solarstrom GmbH is both the project developer and the general contractor for this solar park. Following its expected completion in December of 2011, the system will generate about 5.25 gigawatt-hours of electricity each year and feed it into E.ON Thüringen’s grid. In purely mathematical terms, this would allow for the entire population of Ilfeld of around 3,000 to be supplied with green electricity.

World´s leading trade fair for water, sewage, wast and raw materials management. - IFAT ENTSORGA covers 215,000 square meters of exhibition space - The show takes up all the exhibition halls for the first time 
A good five months before IFAT ENTSORGA opens, the world’s premier trade show for innovations and services in water, sewage, waste and raw materials management is already fully booked. Waiting lists have been started in almost all product categories. IFAT ENTSORGA 2012, which takes place from May 7 to 11 in Munich, will be covering a total of 215,000 square meters of exhibition space (180,000 m2 indoors and 35,000 m2 outdoors), and that will set a new record for the show. In terms of exhibitors, the number will exceed the 2,730 that took part in the last IFAT ENTSORGA.

RENAC's new online courses offer a real career springboard.
RENAC is expanding its training program for renewable energies through a new, online part-time programme. The autumn sees the start of the three-month short courses "Project Management" and "Investment Appraisal". This English-language programme is being organized together with the Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Berlin and combines management or funding expertise with specialist skills for booming renewable energy markets.

According to the current Image Barometer survey carried out by the German Agricultural Society (DLG), Fendt, with 99.7 of 100 points, received by far the highest number of points amongst agricultural equipment manufacturers in 2011.
“We are very pleased that professional farmers have once again given us such an outstanding rating. That shows us that we are spot on with our philosophy to always generate the best possible benefits for our customers through the newest and most efficient technologies,” said Peter-Josef Paffen, Spokesman for the Fendt Management.

Wacker Chemie AG has begun producing hyperpure polycrystalline silicon at its Nünchritz site.
First deposition reactors at the new production complex have already ramped up production of polysilicon. The full nominal capacity of some 15,000 metric tons annually is expected to be operational in the second quarter of 2012. The start of production is three months earlier than WACKER's very ambitious original timetable. All in all, WACKER has invested about €900 million in these new production facilities — creating more than 500 new jobs as a result.

“People in the Heart of AGCO”, that is the motto of Fendt and AGCO. The Human Resources department, which will present itself in the centre of the AGCO stand in Hall 9 at the Agritechnica 2011 in Hanover, will bring this motto to life.
Customers and employees from Fendt and AGCO have one thing in common: both stand in the centre of interest of the corporate management – the customers for obvious reasons, and the employees, because without them there would be no customers.
 

SCHOTT Solar AG is currently supplying 45,000 solar modules with a total output of 10.5 MW peak for a new Capital Stage AG project. Capital Stage is currently developing, financing and building the Solarpark Roitzsch in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld. In total, a park with an output in the area of around 13 MW is planned. Hatob GmbH is responsible for the construction work as the general contractor. The solar power plant is expected to connect with the grid already by the end of the year and then generate approximately 12.8 million kilowatt hours of power.

Q-Cells has sold approximately 200,000 Q.SMART CIGS thin-film solar modules to the solar company GP Joule, based in the North Frisia area of Germany. Based on this, GP Joule has constructed the world's largest solar power plant using CIGS thin-film technology, which was constructed in the record time of just eight-and-a-half weeks. The project was developed by the Stuttgart-based project developer Martin Bucher, while the company Module24 selected the premium Q-Cells products for the plant and all the companies involved. Q-Cells provided technical support during the installation phase. Today (Friday) saw the grand opening of the plant, Solarpark Ammerland, in the municipality of Wiefelstede in Lower Saxony.