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12/05/2024
BELECTRIC Commissions 114-Megawatt Solar Farm in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC, member of Elevion Group, has commissioned a 114-megawatt peak (MWp) solar farm for its customer, ENCAVIS, a leading independent producer of electricity from renewable energies. The completion of this large-scale plant in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, increases BELECTRIC’s total installed capacity in Germany to over 1.2 gigawatts peak (GWp). BELECTRIC has successfully…
09/23/2024
BELECTRIC celebrates 1 GW of installed solar capacity in Germany and 5 GW worldwide
Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC, member of Elevion Group, is celebrating two milestones with the recent commissioning of a solar farm and a battery storage system. The solar energy specialist is one of the first companies to break the mark of one gigawatt (GW) of installed photovoltaic capacity in Germany. Since its foundation in 2001, BELECTRIC…
09/12/2024
BELECTRIC commissions 128 megawatts in the Netherlands
Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC, Member of Elevion Group, commissions eight solar farms with a total capacity of 128 MWp in the Netherlands. This strengthens the company’s position as one of the leading EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) service providers on the Dutch market. With the commissioning of a solar farm in the county of Echt-Susteren in…
07/09/2024
BELECTRIC strengthens its presence on the Danish market with a 135 MWp project
Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC, Member of Elevion Group, secures a contract for a large-scale solar farm near Aarhus in Denmark. By constructing a 135-megawatt solar power plant for NRGi Renewables, the Germany-based company reinforces its presence on the Danish solar power market. Building on its recent market entry, BELECTRIC has now secured a contract for…
06/03/2024
BELECTRIC at Intersolar Europe 2024
Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC, member of Elevion Group, one of the leading service providers in the development, construction, and operation of solar power plants in Europe, will present its range of services at the international trade fair for the solar industry in Munich from June 19th to 21st, 2024, at stand A4.270. Under the motto…
04/08/2024
Elevion Group is launching its entry into the Spanish market with BELECTRIC España
Amsterdam (Netherlands) – The Elevion Group is entering the second biggest PV market in the EU, the Spanish market. The first step in the market entry is the establishment of the new local entity of BELECTRIC, BELECTRIC España. The new company will focus on utility-scale activities in photovoltaics and energy storage from project development and EPC…
03/20/2024
BELECTRIC constructs 114-megawatt project in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC, Member of Elevion Group, has secured another major contract in northern Germany. With the construction of a 114-megawatt solar farm in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the solar energy company is further expanding its presence in its German home market. Less than two years after the commissioning of Tramm-Göthen, one of the largest independent…
02/08/2024
BELECTRIC commissions four German Solar Farms from its own Project Development
Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC, member of Elevion Group, is commissioning four solar power plants in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, and Hesse in Germany. The photovoltaic plants with a total installed capacity of more than 76 megawatts were not only constructed by BELECTRIC, but also developed in-house. The solar energy company BELECTRIC is commissioning four more solar farms…
11/17/2023
Ivana Rendlova joins Management Board
Kolitzheim (Deutschland) – BELECTRIC, member of the Elevion Group, appoints Ivana Rendlova to the Management Board as Non-Executive Officer. She succeeds Stanislav Průcha in this role and will, among other things, promote the exchange of expertise between BELECTRIC and CEZ. Ivana Rendlova will join the Management Board of BELECTRIC as a Non-Executive Officer. In this…
10/10/2023
Regional exchange on the energy transition at BELECTRIC
Kolitzheim (Germany) – At its headquarters in Kolitzheim, the solar company BELECTRIC hosted a Meet & Greet with players and representatives of the handball club Wölfe Würzburg as well as the club’s partners. The companies present exchanged views on cooperation opportunities in the regional energy transition. On October 9th, 2023, the Franconian solar company BELECTRIC…
09/25/2023
BELECTRIC opens office in Berlin
Kolitzheim / Berlin (Germany) – Solar company BELECTRIC from Lower Franconia opens an office in Berlin. The centrally located, modern office in the German capital offers space for more than 20 employees. BELECTRIC opens another German office in the centrally located district of Berlin-Mitte. In the presence of Jaroslav Macek, CEO of BELECTRIC’s parent company…
08/09/2023
BELECTRIC strengthens its return to the UK with another large-scale project
Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC, Member of Elevion Group, strengthens its recent return to the United Kingdom (UK) as an EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) service provider. The solar energy specialist partners with Luminous Energy to install a large-scale solar power plant near Norwich in England. After announcing the signing of EPC contracts for two solar farms…
07/31/2023
BELECTRIC adds four more solar farms to its Dutch portfolio
Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC, Member of Elevion Group, is set to construct four more solar farms in the Netherlands with a strong focus on the conservation of the soils on site. With the new projects, BELECTRIC expands its partnership with global renewable energy company Low Carbon. With four solar power plants already under construction for…
06/06/2023
BELECTRIC becomes a partner of Wölfe Würzburg
Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC, a member of Elevion Group, will be supporting the Wölfe Würzburg handball club starting with the coming season. The partnership between the solar energy specialist and the third division club is also intended to benefit professionals and trainees from the German Mainfranken region. The German solar energy company BELECTRIC from Lower…
03/09/2023
BELECTRIC signs UK Operations and Maintenance agreement with NextEnergy Solar Fund for approximately 150 Megawatt
Kolitzheim (Germany) / Brinkworth (United Kingdom) – BELECTRIC Solar Ltd UK and NextEnergy Solar Fund, a specialist solar and energy storage climate impact fund, sign a framework agreement for more than 150 MWp in O&M following a competitive tender process run by WiseEnergy®. Since September 2022, BELECTRIC has been providing O&M services for the first…
12/21/2022
BELECTRIC reenters the UK market by constructing 100 MWp of solar capacity
Kolitzheim (Germany) – By constructing two large-scale solar farms for Vantage RE Limited in England, BELECTRIC returns to the United Kingdom as an EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) service provider. The photovoltaic systems will have a combined capacity of more than 100 Megawatts Peak (MWp). BELECTRIC will build two solar farms with a combined installed capacity…
11/22/2022
BELECTRIC secures another major contract in the Netherlands
Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC secured another major contract in the Netherlands. By constructing four solar power plants for its new customer Low Carbon, solar energy specialist BELECTRIC continues to expand the company presence on the Dutch market. After commissioning three Dutch solar farms earlier this year, BELECTRIC has now secured another major contract in the…
10/28/2022
BELECTRIC constructs solar farm on ash settling pond in Saxony
Kolitzheim (Germany) – For its customer LEAG and their project developer EP New Energies, BELECTRIC installs a solar farm on the site of an industrial tailings pond. The photovoltaic system is designed specifically for the complex soil conditions of the area. In Böhlen, district of Leipzig, the German solar company BELECTRIC has started constructing a…
10/04/2022
BELECTRIC repowers large-scale project in Israel
Kolitzheim (Germany) / Be’er Sheva (Israel) – BELECTRIC is repowering the Halutziot solar farm for its customer Enlight in Israel. By replacing parts of the existing technology, the solar energy specialist increases the project’s capacity from 55 Megawatts Peak (MWp) to 88 Megawatts Peak, which makes Halutziot Israel’s largest repowering project. Halutziot solar farm is…
09/14/2022
BELECTRIC constructs three solar farms for ÖKORENTA in Franconia
Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC installs three more solar farms in Franconia in Germany. In total, the PV systems near Ottmarsfeld (5.9 MWp), Kleinlangheim (5 MWp) and Unterspiesheim (2.6 MWp) have an installed capacity of 13.5 Megawatts Peak. During implementation, particular attention is paid to species protection. BELECTRIC has commissioned the first two of three projects…
06/22/2022
AMPYR and BELECTRIC execute framework agreement to install 200 MWp of solar projects in Germany
Kolitzheim (Germany) / London (United Kingdom) – AMPYR Solar Europe (ASE) and BELECTRIC agree to install a pipeline of more than 200 megawatts (MW) of solar capacity in Germany. The first power plants to be constructed are located in Brandenburg, Germany. AMPYR and BELECTRIC signed a framework agreement to construct a pipeline of several large-scale…
06/08/2022
BELECTRIC returns to the United Kingdom as EPC service provider
After a break of several years, BELECTRIC is getting back into photovoltaic system construction in the United Kingdom. In recent years, the company’s activities in the country were focused on the operation and maintenance of solar power plants. BELECTRIC has already installed hundreds of megawatts of solar and energy storage capacity in the United Kingdom….
04/11/2022
New CEO at BELECTRIC GmbH
Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC’s parent company, Elevion Group B.V., has appointed Dr. Thorsten Blanke new Chief Executive Officer of BELECTRIC GmbH. He currently serves as Chief Commercial Officer of BELECTRIC and will succeed the current CEO Ingo Alphéus on May 1st, 2022. Ingo Alphéus will join Elevion as new Country Manager of Elevion Group in…
02/28/2022
BELECTRIC completes three more large-scale PV plants in the Netherlands
Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC commissions three more large-scale solar parks for Kronos Solar in the Netherlands. With the timely completion of the PV systems “Losser” (26.9 MWp), “Lochem I” (20.7 MWp) and “Lochem II” (9.9 MWp), BELECTRIC underlines its role as a leading builder and operator of solar systems in the Dutch market. BELECTRIC has…
01/31/2022
BELECTRIC builds another large-scale floating PV plant in Israel
Kolitzheim (Germany) / Be’er Scheva (Israel) – BELECTRIC is further increasing its footprint in the floating PV industry. The solar energy specialist is building a floating PV project with an installed capacity of 16,8 Megawatt Peak (MWp) for S’energy and the large scale water utility “Carmel shore waters” in Israel. Together with S’energy, BELECTRIC’s Israeli…
01/17/2022
BELECTRIC enters the Danish solar power market
Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC has entered the Danish market with cutting edge technology as it continues to expand its presence in Central Europe. The solar energy specialist is constructing its first solar park in Denmark on behalf of Encavis AG. Developed by GreenGo Energy Group, the 12,6 MWp project near Ringkøbing in North Jutland will…
12/20/2021
BELECTRIC breaks the 4-GW-mark right on time for its 20th anniversary
Kolitzheim (Germany) – Just in time for its 20th anniversary, BELECTRIC crosses the mark of four gigawatts of installed solar capacity worldwide. The company was founded in 2001 and is one of the leading EPC service providers in the development and construction of open-space solar power plants. At the turn of the millennium, solar energy…
12/17/2021
BELECTRIC becomes part of Elevion Group and heads for further growth
Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC wins Elevion Group as new owner as it continues on its growth path. The Elevion Group is one of Germany’s largest companies in the field of modern energy solutions that focus on sustainability and climate neutrality. The subject of the acquisition is a 100% stake in the German-based BELECTRIC GmbH and…
11/09/2021
BELECTRIC commissions another large-scale solar farm in India
Kolitzheim (Germany) / Mumbai (India) – BELECTRIC has commissioned a large-scale solar farm in Rajasthan, India. With an installed capacity of 250 MWac the solar power plant is one of India’s largest installations. BELECTRIC provides operations and maintenance services (O&M) to the plant on behalf of the owner Fortum Solar Plus Private Limited (Fortum). “Because…
09/22/2021
BELECTRIC commissions another large-scale solar farm in Israel for EDF
Kolitzheim (Germany) / Be`er Sheva (Israel) – BELECTRIC has completed and commissioned a solar project in Israel on behalf of its customer EDF. With an installed capacity of 60 MWp the solar plant produces more than 145 gigawatt hours of green electricity per year. BELECTRIC provided a turnkey system for the large-scale PV plant, which…
07/21/2021
BELECTRIC completes solar farms for Stadtwerke Tübingen
Tübingen/Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC has completed two solar farms in Bavaria on time for Stadtwerke Tübingen. BELECTRIC developed and installed the solar farms in Herlheim and Neusitz, and will continue to operate them on behalf of the owner as the service provider. The green power produced by the two new solar assets will be sufficient…
05/04/2021
BELECTRIC builds one of the largest floating PV plants in Israel for EDF
Kolitzheim (Germany) / Be`er Sheva (Israel) – BELECTRIC, a German based company, is further increasing its footprint in Israel’s growing solar industry by building a floating PV project on behalf of EDF. BELECTRIC’s Israeli subsidiary will carry out the engineering, construction and commissioning work for the 19.3 MW plant, which is one of the largest…
04/01/2021
BELECTRIC completes solar farm at Vattenfall’s first green hybrid power plant in the Netherlands
Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC has completed a solar power system for Vattenfall’s first full hybrid power plant. The Haringvliet Zuid energy park consists of a wind farm (22 MW) and a battery storage system (12 MW), as well as a large-scale photovoltaic plant which was constructed and commissioned on schedule by the German solar specialist BELECTRIC. The…
03/13/2021
BELECTRIC appointed as EPC contractor for large-scale solar project in India
Kolitzheim (Germany) / Mumbai (India) – BELECTRIC, a Germany-based company, is further increasing its footprint in India’s ever-growing solar industry: the company has been appointed as the EPC (engineering-procurement-construction) service provider for a large-scale solar project by Cleantech Solar, a leading developer, owner, and operator of Commercial and Industrial solar energy systems in Southeast Asia…
02/17/2021
BELECTRIC wins contract to construct three solar farms in the Netherlands
Kolitzheim (Germany) – The German solar power specialist BELECTRIC continues to expand its presence in the Dutch solar market: After the “Hof van Twente” (more than 9 MW) and “Hoogeveen” solar farms (approx. 24 MW) were commissioned on schedule last year, BELECTRIC has now secured the next large contract in the Netherlands. As EPC (engineering-procurement-construction)…
03/02/2020
BELECTRIC at Energy Storage Summit 2020
For the third year in a row, BELECTRIC participated in the Energy Storage Summit in London which is the primary energy storage event in the UK. Over 350 participants from the UK and Europe attended to hear from industry leaders and share experiences.Amit Oza (MD and Head of Battery Sales at BELECTRIC UK) participated in…
02/21/2020
BELECTRIC leadership meeting – team sets course for 2020 and coming years
In mid-February, the executives of the entire BELECTRIC Group met in Volkach (Germany) to review the past year and, above all, to set the strategic course for 2020 and coming years.“Our order books are full thanks to our efforts over the past year. We have the opportunity to build close to 1 GW of photovoltaic…
02/21/2020
BELECTRIC expands 20 MW U.S. O&M with sPower and Madison Energy Partnership
Kolitzheim (Germany), San Mateo (California, USA) – BELECTRIC expands its Operations & Maintenance (O&M) business in the US: The company has been awarded as the long-term service provider for a combination of preventive and corrective maintenance of solar plants with a total capacity of more than 20 MWp. As of October 2019, BELECTRIC has entered…
11/18/2019
BELECTRIC and Solel Boneh complete Israel’s largest solar plant
Kolitzheim, Germany / Be`er Sheva (Israel) – BELECTRIC together with the EPC Division of Solel Boneh have completed Israel’s largest solar project. With an installed capacity of 120 MWp the solar plant will produce more than 220 gigawatt hours of green electricity per year. BELECTRIC, in cooperation with Solel Boneh Ltd. through an integrated EPC…
06/04/2019
BELECTRIC expands PV business in the Netherlands
Kolitzheim, Germany – Since the company successfully entered the market in 2018, BELECTRIC has constructed the “Zonnepark Lange Runde” (14.2 MWp) and “Zeeland Refinery” (12.4 MWp) projects, two turn-key photovoltaic power stations in the Netherlands. In addition, BELECTRIC has been selected as the operations and maintenance service provider for the solar parks. The service agreements…
05/24/2019
BELECTRIC builds battery storage facility for Audi
Kolitzheim / Berlin, Germany – Today, a new battery storage facility was officially inaugurated at the EUREF Campus, a green innovation cluster in Berlin. BELECTRIC was contracted to build the storage system for Audi, with its 20 batteries sourced from test vehicles belonging to the car manufacturer. The system is part of the Mobility2Grid research…
05/06/2019
India: BELECTRIC commissions two of Asia’s largest PV rooftop projects for Cleantech Solar
Kolitzheim, Germany / Mumbai (India) – BELECTRIC, a German based company, is further increasing its footprint in India’s ever-growing solar industry by completing two large-scale PV rooftop projects. With a combined capacity of 26 Megawatt peak (MWp), these solar power plants are amongst Asia’s largest rooftop installations. The projects were developed by Cleantech Solar, the…
03/14/2019
International Women’s day celebration at Pavagada site
On the day of International Women’s Day [8th March], Belectric Photovoltaic India Pvt. Ltd. organized a get together for the office staff and a program for the Women Workers at Pavagada Solar Park (Thirumani Village). Jitendra Singh, CEO & Managing Director of BELECTRIC Photovoltaic India Pvt. Ltd paid tributes to all women out there by…
03/14/2019
Gold Award for 9.45 MWp rooftop solar project.
The Indian magazine EQ INTERNATIONAL has given the Gold Award “Rooftop EPC Company of the year” to BELECTRIC Photovoltaic India Pvt. Ltd.. The prize was awarded to the BELECTRIC management at the Radisson Blu City Centre, Egmore Chennai on 27 February. The awarded project is a 9.45 MWp rooftop solar project in Chennai, India.
02/28/2019
BELECTRIC will build up to 1 GW this year
Kolitzheim (Germany) – BELECTRIC is active worldwide in the development and construction of utility scale solar power plants, PV roof systems and energy storage systems. In 2019 the company will build 1 GW of solar power. “This year, we want to reap the fruits we sowed last year,” explains Ingo Alphéus, CEO of BELECTRIC Solar…
01/15/2019
BELECTRIC realizes for innogy large-scale solar power plants in Germany
innogy SE takes over from the developer Primus solar projects with a total capacity of over 50 megawatts peak (MWp) in Thuringia, central Germany, and Bavaria, southern Germany. In total, the pipeline consists of six solar parks that are in different stages of development. An initial project with about 10 MWp of installed capacity is…
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