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InnoVent ventures into solar roofing in China
InnoVent's Solar Rooftop Park in China By the end of 2022, InnoVent ventured into the Chinese solar rooftop market and currently possesses six installations. These six facilities are situated in the Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces, with each park comprising solar...
Boralex vs. InnoVent: When a mountain gives birth to a mouse
By a judgment dated April 20, 2021, the Commercial Court of Lille Métropole had ordered InnoVent and its president Grégoire Verhaeghe to pay Boralex fifty million six hundred ninety-five thousand one hundred twenty-seven euros (€50,695,127), with provisional...
InnoVent installs its 3rd wooden wind turbine!
Looking back at an extraordinary innovation project. History of wooden wind turbines It all started in 2006 when construction permits for the 7 wind turbines in Essey-les-Ponts were filed. It would take 8 years to obtain these initial permits. In 2014, InnoVent first...
World First: InnoVent and Liftra Deploy a Self-Hoisting Crane on an Offshore Wind Farm
Located on Lake Vänern in Sweden, InnoVent's unique offshore wind farm consists of 8 wind turbines with a capacity of 3 MW each. InnoVent, a Northern French SME specialized in the development of wind and solar farms, is dedicated to minimizing its environmental...
INNOVENT develops and builds Europe’s largest energy storage plant for CORSICA SOLE
In 2019, InnoVent launched the project to build the Europe’s largest storage plant. For 3 years, InnoVent has therefore carried out all the stages of development, from initial studies to the purchase of land and building permits to the commissioning of batteries....
Le Portel : 3-point wind turbine recycling
Wind turbine recycling is a recurring issue. Let’s take stock with the Le Portel farm: Le Portel wind farm Le Portel site is one of the first InnoVent's wind farms, installed in 2001. For 21 years, these four 750 kW wind turbines have been installed along the Carnot...
InnoSun just signed a 10-year PPA with Orano
InnoVent’s Namibian subsidiary, InnoSun Energy Holdings, has just signed a 10-year PPA with Orano (formerly Areva) to supply solar electricity to its desalination plant, which supplies drinking water to the Namibian coast. The 5 MWp solar farm will be built at the...
Tip: air-conditioning without warming the planet
The air conditioning and heat pumps that equip our homes mostly use R410a refrigerant gas. This gas, present in a few kg per installation, has a major drawback: its very high global warming potential (or GWP). CO2 GWP is 1 while R410a GWP is 2100! A leak in your heat...
InnoVent and Nabrawind install the tallest wind turbine in Africa
As part of the development of its 36 MW wind farm in Morocco, InnoVent has partnered with Nabrawind to install Africa’s tallest wind turbine. Strong environmental beliefs "I have been trying for years to reduce the consumption of concrete and steel needed for the...