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eSolar has announced a collaboration with manufacturing services provider Sanmina-SCI to optimize the production of eSolar’s solar collector products. The two companies are combining their expertise to develop, manufacture and design solutions in solar thermal energy and CSP components. Sanmina-SCI will provide its supply chain expertise to enhance eSolar’s production of CSP tracking equipment.
Multi-Contact’s Westlake junction box (PV-JB/WL-H) has been certified by TÜV and UL following the product’s passing of the DIN EN 60068-2-52:1996 salt mist spray test.
Amphenol Industrial Global Operations has announced its Helios H4 is UL certified to 1000V. The increase in voltage rating allows higher voltage systems to be created with a lower percentage of voltage drop. The company claims it also decreases the use of copper and the dollar per watt through electrical efficiency.
Titan Tracker advised that it had delivered four of its double axis solar trackers with parabolic dish concentrators for Stirling engines in South Africa. The tracker delivered is the 125-228 Stirling model, which can fit 2 units of Stirling engines with a total power of 60kW. The company noted that this is one of the first commercial solar projects to be commissioned in South Africa this year.
Chint/Astronergy is debuting new integrated mounting solutions at the PV America show in San Jose, which the company is launching as part of a total solution package that has been previously offered abroad and has now been modified for the needs of the US market. Chint/Astronergy looks to this expansion of its products as a way to meet its goal to offer a total integrated PV system by the end of 2012.
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) supports Zep Solar in an infringement case made against the company by Westinghouse Solar, Zep Solar has announced. Westinghouse Solar argued in a complaint to the International Trade Commission (ITC), that Zep Solar had infringed its ‘614 patent. After rejecting previous claims by Westinghouse Solar, USPTO had issued an action closing prosecution (ACP), attesting that the claims made by Westinghouse Solar were invalid.
Leading PV module tracking systems supplier DEGERenergie has come to the conclusion that CPV-based technologies, dependent on tracking the sun for correct yields, will remain an unprofitable business for the foreseeable future and as a result has discontinued the sale of its tracking products for the technology.
Although PV inverters make up a significant percentage of the balance of system (BOS) equipment cost structure, monitoring hardware, smarter mounting structures and tracker systems are expected to help boost the PV BOS market towards US$24 billion in 2016, according to a new market report from IMS Research.
PanelClaw has announced the ETL listing of all its products to UL Subject 2703, which establishes safety and performance requirements for PV mounting systems. PanelClaw’s ETL listing includes modules from Canadian Solar, Chaori Solar, ET Solar, Gloria Solar, Helios Solar Works, LDK Solar, Mitsubishi Electric, Motech, MX Solar and Suniva.
Having launched its fast-track module mounting system in Europe and the US last year, Trina Solar has said that the first European project to use the innovative system was recently completed in Cumbria, UK.
