What on Earth? – Cobalt Energy Investigate DC Ground Faults in the UK Market
RISO Faults, Ground Faults, Earth Faults, Earth leakage, Insulation Resistance issues…whatever you call them, they are a continual problem on solar farms around the world. However, in the UK Cobalt Energy are seeing more and more sites with significant RISO issues… Maybe it’s the UK climate? Maybe it’s the pace in which the installed capacity was deployed? Maybe it’s the CAPEX ...
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Cobalt Energy published in PV Magazine Europe
John Davies (Operations Director – Solar & Energy Storage) took part in a PV Magazine hosted webinar earlier in the year where discussions and views were exchanged on solar plant trouble shooting and Cobalt Energy’s view on advancing analytical technologies and approaches to assess, improve and optimise utility scale solar plants. Following this successful webinar, our own John Davies was ...
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Ian Crummack chairs EfW Conference 2018
Cobalt Energy recently attended the EfW conference in London. Our MD Ian Crummack chaired proceedings for the 4th time in five years, at what was a well-attended and lively conference. A number of interesting topics were covered over the course of the two day event with the potential impact of Brexit and the benefits (or otherwise) of gasification of particular ...
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Cobalt Energy wins site assessment contract utilising innovative UV technology
Cobalt Energy have been awarded a contract to carry out multi-scope site assessments on an 11 site portfolio owned and managed by John Laing Capital Management. The site assessment scope consists of HV equipment inspections, string combiner box inspections, hand-held IR checks, string testing and micro-crack investigations using our new UV approach. Five out of the 11 site assessments have ...
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Cobalt Energy completes construction at REnescience Northwich
Construction work at the Ørsted (formerly DONG Energy) REnescience facility at Northwich is complete with process commissioning under way. The REnescience Northwich project is a first of its kind using Ørsted’s patented technology “REnescience” to treat up to 120,000 tonnes per year of unsorted waste from 110,000 UK homes. This unique method of treating waste using the ground-breaking biotechnology that ...
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Cobalt Energy works in the dark using innovative Electroluminescence capture technology
At Cobalt Energy we have recently embarked on trials using innovative technology to gather Electroluminescence (EL) images of solar modules in daylight. We are now progressing this by working with European technology partners to gather module images in night-time hours. EL images can highlight defects and detail that visual inspection and IR (Thermography) images cannot detect. It identifies module and ...
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