juwi Solar Creates 500 New Jobs World-Wide

- Project developer grows in all important markets and enters into new countries


Munich / Woerrstadt - juwi Solar continues to extend its international business activities with rapid strides. \"We enter into new markets and are creating 500 new jobs until 2012 world-wide\", says juwi Solar managing director Lars Falck before the opening of the Intersolar Europe in Munich (June 9th to 11th). The subsidiary of the German juwi group in Woerrstadt (Rhineland-Palatinate) is presenting its services and product range at the exhibition in hall A5, booth 370. For the coming two years juwi is working on photovoltaic plants for roofs and free-field with a total output of more than 1.000 megawatts (MW). With these projects more than a billion kilowatt hours clean energy can be produced per year, which covers the need of more than 300.000 households - or a megacity - according to European norms. Important foreign markets are the USA, France, Italy, the Czech Republic and Greece; Germany also remains in focus. This year juwi is entering the market in Bulgaria and Slovakia. Furthermore, the market segments \"Operation and Maintenance\" and \"Off-Grid\" are further expanded.

In Bulgaria the project developer has already started a first project in the sunny southwest of the country. The free-field photovoltaic plant in Drachevo - approx. 30 kilometres southwest of the port Burgas - has an output of 3.5 MW, produces per year approximately 4.3 million kilowatt-hours clean energy and will be put to the grid in late summer. In Slovakia projects with an output of five MW are planned for this year.

\"As general contractor we can offer the construction of turn-key plants to registered holders in practically every country. We are checking a number of countries at present regarding the launch of an own project development and the establishment of further branch offices\", said Falck. juwi is one of the most important companies in the area of operational maintenance. \"With an output of more than 300 MW and well over 50 employees we also offer our services for plants that were not constructed by our company\", added Falck. Off-Grid is expanding as well. In the past two years juwi received orders from the most remote corners of the world. Numerous new jobs will be created in this division - both in Germany and abroad.

Germany remains the most important market for the company at present. Approximately half of all new jobs will be created here - despite the hard cuts in the promotion of solar energy. Falck: \"The excessive shortenings are costing us millions of Euros in revenue. However, juwi is innovative and flexible enough to be able to react to political decisions that are neither soundly justified, nor comprehensible – such as the complete removal of arable land from all promotion. We work full speed on further innovative concepts such as solar carports or photovoltaic plants on greenhouses\".

The US has developed into the second most important market. The team with managing director Michael Martin is planning projects with a total output of approx. 150 MW up to 2012; the number of employees is going to be doubled from approximately 30 at present. Already this month juwi Solar Inc. is planning to connect to the grid a 12 MW plant in Wyandott (Ohio) as well as a 15-MW-Park in Jacksonville (Florida). Until the end of the year a solar park in San Antonio (Texas, 16 MW) is going to follow.\" In the US we are only at the beginning; the country offers incredible prospects. juwi Solar will make sure that we get a slice of the cake. In the area of utility scale free-field solar power plants we are one of the leading project developers in the US\", says Martin.

In France, where juwi Solar is realizing among others a free-field project in Sabaranis (8.5 MW), located approx. 80 km south of Toulouse, the company will install photovoltaic plants with a total output of 30 MW only in 2010 and double the number of employees to more than 50 – tendency rising \"In France the hard work bears fruit. Besides European investors one of our customers is a national energy utility\", says Yannick Bauer, Managing Director of juwi Solar France.

juwi is also expanding in Italy. Only in this year projects with a total output of 20 MW are projected - among others a solar carport for the roofing of a nursing homes’ parking lots located in Marcaria, approximately 70 kilometres southwest of Verona in the province Mantova. The number of currently more than 40 employees is to be considerably increased.

In Greece and the Czech Republic juwi is up to a lot of things as well. \"Prospects are promising, basic conditions are good; we will grow strongly in these countries\", says Lars Falck. In Greece the company counts this year on a market share of 10 per cent. In the Czech Republic, where a 2 MW plant is currently realized in central Bohemia, juwi is planning projects with a total output of about 15 MW and is one of the leading players; the number of employees is to be almost doubled to 34.


juwi on the InterSolar – Visit Us in Hall A5, Booth 370

The juwi group (www.juwi.com) was established as a specialist for regional combined cycle power plants with which municipalities and regions, industries and businesses can cover their energy demands in a clean, efficient and tailored way from renewable resources. A central element of this 100 per cent concept is photovoltaic. On the InterSolar juwi is presenting its entire line up of services and products. \"We offer full service for roof and free-field plants firsthand. Whether it is acquisition, planning, financing, realization or operational management, we take care of every step of project development\" says Lars Falck, managing director of the juwi Solar GmbH. Beyond that juwi has innovative solar developments on board - for instance the juwi carport for efficient and climate friendly parking lots. \"juwi solar carports offer protection to vehicles and produce clean energy along the way\", stresses Falck. The photovoltaic roofing consists of an aluminium construction, on which solar modules are fixed. This innovation is available in various models. It can be established on existing as well as new parking lots. With the new carport juwi is extending its broad line up in the area of photovoltaic roof systems. This contains innovative solutions for almost any roof. The juwi group is a leading project developer for renewable energy installations and was established in 1996 by Matthias Willenbacher and Fred Jung. Together they developed juwi from a two-man office to a company acting world-wide with more than 900 employees and a sales volume of 600 million euro, which realizes solar, wind and bio energy plants as well as water power and geothermic projects.


Woerrstadt, June 8th 2010

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