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Europe’s largest solar power event now fills 18 very large rooms at the Munich trade show. Intersolar predicts greater than 200,000 visitors will see the almost 5,000 unique exhibitors showing off their hardware and services. Breakdancing with Sungrow on the floor at Intersolar Europe 2025. The continent’s largest solar power event now fills 18 very large rooms at the Munich trade show. Solar Promotion Gmbh, the organizer of Intersolar, predicts more than 200,000 visitors will see the almost 5,000 unique exhibitors showing off their hardware and services. Flexible, light, and colorful solar panels are still very niche products, however, they are expanding their product offerings and increasing technical qualities. Euronergy showed three color groups – orange, light green, and blue/dark green at their booth. The products offer efficiencies ranging from 16% to just over 21%, depending on the coloring. The team at the booth said there have always been installation locations that cannot take the standard weight of modules, but that aesthetics – which have always been a challenge – were becoming another sector to tackle. With their blue/dark green module having an efficiency of 21.17%, colored solar modules – while still less efficient than cutting-edge products – are definitely within the range of useful products. The WindCube by Visala detects local wind speeds via lasers. The unit connects with utility-scale SCADA systems and aims to assist single-axis tracker installations to better protect itself from high winds. A single unit is generally placed at the leading edge of a solar facility where prevailing winds tend to arrive from. In this position they can give a facility a five to 10-minute advance warning of potentially damaging winds, allowing the tracker system to stow the solar modules in a protective position. The automated solar cleaning robotic system from SolarCleano is designed to run day or night. The default unit is a dry cleaner that is designed for arid, low-humidity, regions. For non-arid regions, a second vehicle carrying water can be attached to the unit – but there was no mention of an automated unit yet. The largest unit uses a 5-meter wide brush for fixed racking installations and can clean up to 10 MW of modules per day, while the smaller 3-meter brush for tracking systems can clean up to 5 MW of modules per day. The company plans to publicly announce its new pickup truck-based wet cleaning system – called the E1 – in the coming days. |
