YANTAI, China, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sungrow, a global leading renewable energy company, recently hosted the latest edition of its PhD Talk series in China’s Bohai Bay, bringing together experts and industry representatives in offshore PV, island microgrids, deep-water offshore wind and marine conservation.

Under the theme “The Power of Bridge: Bridge to The Deep Blue,” the event identified five key trends shaping offshore renewables in the move from demonstration projects toward commercial deployment.

Offshore systems must withstand salt spray, high humidity, waves, tides and typhoons while navigating limited operation and maintenance (O&M) windows, insufficient grid support and coordination across multiple types of equipment.

Trend 1: Scenario-Defined Design Replaces a One-Size-Fits-All Approach

Offshore equipment cannot simply replicate land-based products, and different marine environments demand different designs. David Sun, General Manager of the R&D Center at Sungrow’s Utility PV Business Unit, noted that tropical waters bring heat and humidity, cold-water environments create condensation risks, and nearshore industrial zones expose equipment to chemical corrosion.

Sungrow therefore uses a unified, high-standard technology platform while adapting materials, sealing processes and thermal management strategies to local conditions.

Trend 2: AI-Powered Reliability Supports Offshore Solar’s Move to Commercial Scale

As offshore PV moves from demonstration projects toward commercial operation, harsher environmental loads and mounting cost pressures remain key challenges, according to Hui Xing, Chief Engineer of POWERCHINA Northwest Engineering Corporation Limited’s New Energy Engineering Institute.

David further emphasized that project economics extend beyond upfront equipment costs to downtime, offshore inspections and long-term maintenance. Sungrow’s Smart IV Curve Diagnosis identifies string faults, while self-learning algorithms monitor inverter air-duct health, enabling early warnings and dust removal. MPPT-level insulation detection reduces fault-location time to one-sixth of that required by conventional inverter-level diagnosis, while AI-based fault localization pinpoints issues to individual modules within a string.

Trend 3: Lifecycle Reliability and Proactive Safety Become Core Design Requirements

The SG465HX utility string inverter incorporates IP66 protection, C5-H corrosion resistance, a fully sealed electronics chamber, an IP68-rated fan, weather-resistant sealing materials and intelligent active dehumidification.

In a 1,440-hour cyclic neutral salt spray test (two hours in 5% sodium chloride spray and 22 hours at 40±2°C and 93% relative humidity per cycle), no corrosion appeared on the enclosure, structural parts or core internal components. Sungrow also received a third-party C5-H certification report.

The inverter’s proactive safety features include intelligent string shutdown, AC and DC terminal temperature monitoring, a DC switch with a trip mechanism, and 24-hour insulation monitoring. Sungrow also developed two-stage waterproof terminal caps for protection during transportation, construction and long-term operation, including IP68-rated PA66 caps for unused terminals. A dedicated offshore DC switch uses corrosion- and wear-resistant coatings to reduce the risk of contact sticking and failure to interrupt fault current caused by salt spray.

Trend 4: Grid-Forming Technology Becomes the Backbone of Island Microgrid Stability

Island microgrids face three core challenges: generation uncertainty, load uncertainty and the absence of external grid support, making grid-forming technology and coordinated power-system control essential to stable power supply, according to Dr. Liu Hangyue, Deputy General Manager of Sungrow’s Microgrid and Grid Solutions Center.

David said Sungrow’s inverter portfolio offers grid-forming capability under all grid conditions, letting PV inverters in microgrids establish voltage and support frequency through grid-forming algorithms. In PowerMatrix, each sub-array can operate independently in grid-forming mode, enabling 10-millisecond voltage stabilization and a 5-millisecond inertia response.

Future island energy systems will require coordinated control across solar, wind, storage, the grid and loads, rather than relying on individual devices alone.

Trend 5: Deep-Water Offshore Wind Shifts from Equipment Adaptation to System-Level Co-Design

As offshore wind expands into deeper waters and farther from shore, the challenge is shifting from individual-device reliability to system-wide coordination and value-chain collaboration. Larger turbines can reduce costs and improve efficiency but introduce new issues involving fluid-structure interaction, material properties and multidisciplinary coordination, according to Xu Guodong, Deputy Chief Engineer of Windey Energy Technology Group.

Addressing this shift, Dr. Wang Lingxiang, Vice President of Sungrow and President of its Wind Energy Business Unit, said deep-water sites, evolving power-system requirements and complex marine conditions place greater demands on the reliability, overload capability and intelligent O&M of wind converters.

Electrical equipment must move from passive adaptation to active integration through system-level co-design with generators, cables and transformers, as well as participation in turbine load control and intelligent shutdown strategies. Grid-forming applications must also reflect specific grid-connection and power-transmission configurations, strengthening grid support while safeguarding generators and managing turbine loads. Hardware upgrades should be based on system design requirements.

Beyond technology, Sungrow Foundation joined WWF and the One Planet Foundation to launch a marine “Sun Forest” ecological restoration initiative in Bohai Bay, aiming to restore seagrass and macroalgal beds to improve marine habitats. The foundation also donated a 10.35 kW/10 kWh solar-plus-storage system, expected to generate approximately 12,000 kWh annually, to support emergency and stable power supply for an island community.

This edition of Sungrow’s PhD Talk series traced the industry’s shift from a focus on individual equipment performance toward scenario-specific design, lifecycle reliability, intelligent O&M and system-wide coordination. To support this transition, Sungrow will continue exploring solutions for different marine environments and energy applications through innovation in power conversion and grid technologies.

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LUND, Sweden, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Alfa Laval has been selected by Saipem, the EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) contractor for Stockholm Exergi’s BECCS (Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage) project to supply heat transfer equipment for one of Europe’s largest bioenergy carbon capture facilities. The project is expected to begin operations in 2028 and will capture, liquify, and permanently store up to 800,000 tonnes of CO₂ annually, representing approximately one to two percent of today’s total global carbon capture capacity.

Stockholm Exergi, a leading Swedish energy provider, is taking a bold step towards net-negative emissions with the first-of-its-kind large-scale BECCS initiative set to run at Europe’s largest biomass-based combined heat and power plant in Stockholm. When fully operational, the facility will capture and store CO2 from the combustion of biogenic fuels, where Alfa Laval’s heat transfer solutions will play a crucial role, maximizing system efficiency and heat recovery. The project is part of Sweden’s climate neutrality goals, contributing to the EU’s climate strategy and positioning Stockholm Exergi as an early adopter.

“Carbon capture at this scale is one of the most demanding thermal engineering challenges in the energy transition and effective energy recovery is what ultimately makes it commercially viable,” says Thomas Møller, President of the Energy Division, Alfa Laval. “Stockholm Exergi is setting a new standard for what net-negative emissions can look like at industrial scale, and we are honoured to contribute to this landmark project with our heat transfer solutions.”

“The plant will require a lot of energy to capture the CO2 from the flue gas and liquify it, but with the high quality Ziepack heat exchangers from Alfa Laval, we will be able to reclaim the energy used. This energy will go back in our existing district heating system, which contributes additionally to our carbon removal targets,” says Egil Nybakk, Director BECCS at Stockholm Exergi.

Alfa Laval will supply its Ziepack gas-gas interchanger alongside multiple process plate-and-frame heat exchangers, crucial for maximizing system efficiency and heat recovery, and integral parts of the core capture process. The equipment package has been selected by Saipem as part of its EPC contract for the Stockholm Exergi BECCS facility. Alfa Laval’s technologies will contribute to the efficiency of the carbon capture process and support the project’s ambition to become one of the world’s largest facilities for the capture and permanent storage of biogenic CO2.

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About the Stockholm Exergi BECCS project

Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) is a key climate technology that generates renewable energy from biomass while capturing and permanently storing the resulting CO2.

The Stockholm Exergi plant, BECCS Stockholm, is expected to capture and permanently store up to 800,000 tonnes of biogenic CO₂ annually, making it one of the world’s largest carbon removal facilities. The captured CO2 is then compressed and liquified, allowing for space-efficient underground or offshore storage.

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Stockholm Exergi is a Swedish energy provider in Stockholm. Today, more than 800,000 people and around 400 locations in Stockholm are connected to the district heating network, which is in turn connected to Stockholm Exergi’s heating and cogeneration plants.

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Saipem is a global leader in the engineering and construction of major projects for the energy and infrastructure sectors. The company is active across the entire CO₂ value chain, from carbon capture to transportation and storage, leveraging its engineering, technological and project execution capabilities to support clients’ decarbonization objectives.

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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — During the period September 7 – September 11, 2026, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson(publ) (“Ericsson”) (LEI code 549300W9JLPW15XIFM52) repurchased own Class B shares (ISIN: SE0000108656) as follows:

The share repurchases are a part of the share buyback program of up to SEK 15,000,000,000 which Ericsson announced on April 16, 2026, and which runs between April 23, 2026, and March 31, 2027, at the latest. The Board of Directors intends to propose to the 2027 Annual General Meeting that the repurchased shares, other than those used to fulfil Ericsson’s obligations under its share-related incentive programs, are cancelled.

The share buyback program is executed in accordance with the Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on market abuse (MAR) and the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 of 8 March 2016 supplementing MAR (the Safe Harbour Regulation).

All acquisitions have been carried out on Nasdaq Stockholm by Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE on behalf of Ericsson. A full breakdown of the transactions is attached to this announcement.

Following the repurchases above, Ericsson’s holding of treasury stock amounts to 107,518,663 Class B shares. There are in total 3,371,351,735 shares in Ericsson, 261,755,983 shares of Class A and 3,109,595,752 shares of Class B.

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