The Supervisory Board of SMA Solar Technology AG, Niestetal/Germany, is reducing in size. Jürgen Reinert is the new spokesman and will in future be responsible not only for Technology and Operations but also for Sales and Service. Ulrich Hadding remains head of the Finance, HR and Legal departments and will also be responsible for Investor Relations. Pierre-Pascal Urbon will be ...

The former Chairman of the Board at the German Energy Agency (dena), Stephan Kohler, has been elected as Chairman of the Supervisory Board for the Zukunft Erdgas e. V. industry initiative in Berlin/Germany. He succeeds Ludwig Möhring, who has resigned from the board.

On 1st August 2018 the international coal and coke trading divsion of RAG Verkauf GmbH, Herne/Germany, was taken over by Xcoal Energy & Resources Germany GmbH based in Essen/Germany. All existing customers and suppliers will continue to be supported by the long-standing and trusted team headed by Ingo Elsner. (RAG Verkauf/Si.)

The photovoltaic plant in Saarbrücken-Jägersfreude is the tenth project for montanSOLAR GmbH, Ensdorf /Germany, in Saarland. The first phase of construction of the 2.3 MWp solar power plant on the 8.7 ha site is now complete (Figure 1). And now it has officially commenced operations. The entire plant will be completed in three phases of construction over the coming years and will ...

Landschaftsagentur Plus GmbH, Datteln/Germany, has undertaken its first grazing project on behalf of RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen and RAG Montan Immobilien GmbH, Essen, in Saarland. An Aubrac herd (Figure 1) has been introduced as part of the remediation of the former Saarland refinery site in Völklingen and the Lydia tip in Quierschied. To counteract the intrusion into nature and the landscape in ...

This year, the Helmuth-Burckhardt Prize, awarded by the German Raw Materials and Mining Association (VRB), was presented to young graduate engineer, Felix Heinrich, from Dresden/Germany, (Figure 1). VRB, the professional umbrella association for the German mining industry, awarded the young academic his prize at the general assembly held on 11th October 2018 in Berlin. The Helmuth-Burckhardt prize has been awarded annually ...

Power-to-X technologies (PtX) cross boundaries, transfer energy flexibly and therefore make a sustainable contribution to reducing CO2 emissions and increasing efficiency. The integrated energy storage used for systems, mains and the market also offsets the volatility of renewable energy, thereby reducing costs significantly within the overall system. The extraordinary potential of energy storage solutions, including for integrated energy, is currently ...

Six months before the start of the world’s leading trade fair for construction machinery, bauma, on 8th April 2019, Messe München/Germany can already announce a new record number of exhibitors. More than 3,500 exhibitors from 55 countries will be there – almost 100 more than in 2016 (Figure 1). bauma PLUS allows even more companies to present their products and ...

The Salar de Uyuni salt flat in the Andes of south-west Bolivia is currently the largest known lithium reserve in the world. The Bolivian state is creating a value-added chain in order to put this raw material to industrial use. Following a long and intensive decision-making process, state-owned enterprise Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB) selected the German company ACI Systems ...

Atlas Copco has announced a new addition to its QAC range of containerised generators, the QAC 1450 TwinPower™ delivers unrivalled versatility, optimised performance and excellent fuel economy in demanding Modular Power Plant (MPP) applications (Figure 1). The QAC 1450 TwinPower is a 20 ft. ISO containerised unit housing two compact 725 kVA generators; powered by V8 Scania engines with double ...