[SatNews] What do solar and wind power have to do with SATCOM?

C2SAT (NGM – Stock Exchange, C2ST), a supplier of maritime VSAT antenna systems, has signed a Letter Of Intent (LOI) with Multi Resource Technologie GmbH & Co (MRT), Germany, a supplier of climate neutral energy solutions using solar and wind power, to combine the C2SAT stabilized system with the MRT Solar Dish for generation of electricity. The C2SAT technology has many potential areas of application. On a regular basis, C2SAT receives and evaluates proposals for co-operations based on integrating C2SAT technology into other vendor’s applications. C2SATs strategy is to focus on C2SATs core business, i.e., maritime VSAT antennas, and become one of the three leading global suppliers of maritime VSAT antennas. The proposal from MRT has nonetheless been deemed to have a commercial potential and to be viable as the project requires limited development and adaptation of already current C2SAT technology and C2SATs role as a supplier to MRT. The project now initiated aims at combining the technologies developed by the two companies into a state-of-the-art, cost efficient and commercial MRT Solar Dish product based on C2SATs robot technology, recognized for its robust features and high pointing accuracy, and MRT Solar Dish and energy storage technology. The initial test and verification phase, including Proof Of Concept (POC) installations is expected to be finalized already within the next three to six months targeting MRT being able to present a commercial product before year-end 2011.