In the heart of K’gari, a World Heritage-listed sand island in Queensland, sits the beautiful Lady Elliot Island Eco-Resort. The resort has been leading the sustainability charge since 2008, when it became one of the first resorts in Australia to implement a hybrid energy system.
In the heart of Australia's Northern Goldfields, a groundbreaking collaboration between global mining giant BHP and renewable energy provider TransAlta has given rise to one of the world's largest off-grid mining solar and battery energy storage systems.
SMA partnered with Green Earth Power Co Ltd, Thailand, to build the 1st Phase of Myanmar's ambitious 220 MW Minbu Solar Power Project.
SMA has partnered with Indo Energy Corporation (IEC) to set up a 1.6 MWp rooftop solar plant on the Long An Cold Storage facility in the Long An province of South Vietnam. This collaboration has helped one of Asia's largest and most modern cold storage warehouses to go green & and reduce dependency on fossil fuels. The Partnership leverages SMA’s reliability, German technology in solar inverters, and IEC's expertise as a turnkey EPC contractor.
In the fight against climate change, businesses all over the world are adopting cleaner, more sustainable practices. In 2023, SMA Australia was honoured to work alongside one of these eco-conscious businesses, helping The Eye Surgery Hastings transition to 100% renewable energy for their New Zealand clinic.
Right in the heart of Germany there is now a beacon of hope in the form of a PV farm showcasing how cities and local communities can transition to a renewable energy supply. But what makes this project in Bundorf so unique? The PV farm is one of the largest in Germany to involve public participation. Citizens can take part in the project through an energy co-operative and thus collectively drive forward the energy transition in their region.
This is the largest power plant of its kind in the Western Pacific Region and will help meet nearly 1/4th of the energy needs of the small country.
We are experiencing intensifying climate change events year after year, and today it has become a core survival need to find alternate sources of energy that are emission-free and limitless. That’s where the evolution of solar power generation technologies comes across as the best chance that the planet has.
SMA, in collaboration with ONP Solar, has achieved remarkable success in rooftop solar installations in Thailand and Myanmar. These installations are powering pharmaceutical companies to distribute temperature-controlled vaccines in remote and challenging locations that lack access to grid power. The partnership between SMA and ONP Solar has resulted in the fastest and largest rooftop deployments to date in both Thailand and Myanmar. In this article, you'll learn more about the set-up of the PV installations, the challenges the project team had to manage, and the project's outcome.
Electricity, heat and transportation: The citizens’ solar park is transforming Bundorf in Lower Franconia into an energy community. Delivering 125 megawatts of peak power, the photovoltaic (PV) farm is one of the biggest in Germany – and more than 30 percent of it serves as a citizens’ solar park. The primarily power-operated district heating network is unique, and the connected charging infrastructure is intended for supplying the local population with affordable solar power for their electric cars.