juwi, a leading renewable energy project developer, has taken a strategic decision to enter the UK market and further intensify its constantly growing international business activities. The subsidiary “juwi Renewable Energies Ltd” has established an office in Birmingham, the second largest city in the UK, and in 2011 and 2012, the company reveals that it “will realise solar power plants with the capacity of more than 60 MW” in the UK.
juwi has announced that this capacity will be installed “predominantly in the South of the country”, and that it will develop the photovoltaic projects mainly alone, covering the entire process - from acquisition of suitable land to the completion of the power plant. In addition, the energy specialist will realise turnkey projects in which the company acts as the general contractor for the design, engineering and construction of free field and rooftop solar installations.
"The UK currently provides excellent conditions for the solar industry; the country is becoming an attractive European market. We are happy that the United Kingdom jumps on the bandwagon on the way to renewable energies and a comprehensive restructuring of the energy supply. We want to contribute to a further acceleration of this train so that we reach 100 % renewable energies as soon as possible”, says Lars Falck, Managing Director of juwi Solar and currently Managing Director of juwi UK. This latter post will be filled by a British candidate over the next few months.
With the implementation of a national feed-in tariff, the British government has provided an excellent basis to achieve its climate protection targets. Solar energy will contribute two percent to the national electricity supply by 2020, equating to 6,000 MW. Based on the promising conditions in the UK and juwi’s rich expertise in developing and implementing renewable energy projects worldwide "juwi Renewable Energies Ltd" is already anticipating strong growth over the next two years.
“If the conditions remain that positive, we will create a large number of sustainable jobs in the UK. At the moment, we plan to hire approximately 60 people until the end of 2012”, says Daniel Parsons, Business Development Manager for juwi Solar.
Meanwhile, juwi Solar’s Head of Business Development , Amiram Roth-Deblon, concludes that: “The feed-in tariff will contribute to a large extent to a security of energy supplies in the UK based on renewable energies”.
The foundation of a subsidiary in the UK is not the first international market entry in 2010. This year the project developer already has entered into the promising solar markets of Slovakia, Bulgaria and India.
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