juwi brings Energy to Health Centre in Senegal

- PV power plant supplies clean and safe solar electricity to maternity ward

N\'dollor/Woerrstadt - The juwi group brings energy into Senegal - and has implemented another project for the electrification of rural areas in the West African country: A health centre that serves particularly as maternity ward for the region and had so far been without electricity supply, has been equipped with a photovoltaic (PV) power plant developed by juwi and is now supplied with clean and safe solar electricity. The PV plant for the health centre in the village N\'dollor is juwi\'s third project in Senegal.

\"The inhabitants in N\'dollor were overjoyed and organized a large celebration in gratitude; some had even tears in the eyes\", says Gerhard Dodenhoff, chairman of the support organization \"Kinderhilfe Senegal Hammah e.v\". The PV power plant has an output of four kilowatt which is enough to supply the main consumers of the health centre with energy. So far the village and the hospital ward did not have any access to electricity. The solar power plant gives energy for lightening; now babies can be brought to the world without any problems even at night. Beyond that refrigerators in which medicines and inoculation syringes are stored bring a completely new standard to the ward.

juwi has taken care of the realization of the plant from the outset; its size was specified in close coordination with the \"Kinderhilfe Senegal\". Inverters were donated by SMA and modules were provided by REC. The island system was arranged and tested by juwi and left the port in Hamburg in a container supplied by the supporting organization. In Senegal the solar system was launched by a local partner (INENSUS West Africa S.A.R.L.). \"REC is proud to partner with juwi to make clean, renewable solar energy affordable and accessible everywhere. We are helping to meet this challenge by providing sustainable and innovative solar energy solutions\" said Gonzalo De La Viña, Country manager, Germany, REC.

The photovoltaic power plant for the hospital is already the third project implemented by juwi in Senegal. In co-operation with the \"Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit\" GTZ (German technical cooperation) the preparations for the installation of solar island systems in 50 villages in the provinces Casamence and Fatik are currently taking place. juwi is organizing the delivery of components, is supporting the GTZ in the conception of the project and is organizing the training of native installers who will establish the plants locally.

In a similar example juwi has put into place a new electrification approach according to the business model of \"micro power economy\" in the village Sine Moussa Abdou in the region of Thiès - together with the German company INENSUS GmbH and its Senegalese subsidiary. juwi has supplied substantial system components and has carried out support with system integration. The installed hybrid system consists of a 5 kilowatt-peak photovoltaic plant and a five kilowatt wind turbine. The micro power economy model was developed as a risk management tool to make possible private investments into rural electrification.

\"Most villages in Senegal do not have access to general electricity. Solar based island systems, which supply energy independently of the grid, make it for the first time possible for people from rural areas to supply themselves with clean and tailored-made energy\", says Fabian Jochem, who leads the juwi division \"Off Grid supply \". \"SMA has been supporting work in crisis areas and developing countries with modern island technology for years. A reliable energy supply is the basis of a long-term and lasting development of the regions concerned\", adds Volker Wachenfeld, division manger Off Grid systems with SMA Solar Technology AG. Jochem considers the potential for Off Grid systems as enormous with regard to the rapidly rising power requirement in developing countries. \"Oil and gas prices will further rise drastically, while solar electricity becomes ever cheaper. The demand for decentralized and autonomous island systems will grow strongly \", said Jochem.


About the juwi Group

juwi is one of the word-wide leading companies in the area of renewable energies. Since 1996 the project developer is planning, projecting, financing and operating plants for the usage of renewable energies. The juwi group was created 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 about 600 Mio euro which realizes solar, wind and bio energy plants as well as water power and geothermic projects. juwi has realized so far approximately 400 wind energy plants with an output of approx. 600 megawatt; in the solar segment more than 1,200 PV power plants with a total output of more than 400 megawatt. The group has offices in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, Greece, Poland, the USA and Costa Rica. Together with a highly motivated team Willenbacher and Jung pursue the goal of a complete renewable energy supply: 100% commitment for 100% renewable energies. The campaign\" 100 per cent renewable \"is the slogan for this objective. For its commitment juwi has been awarded with the German solar price in 2007, the German climate protection price in 2008, the Clean Tech Media Award in 2009 as well as the Entrepreneur of the year 2009 and the Greentech manager of the year 2009 award. In July 2008 juwi opened the most energy-efficient office building of the world in Wörrstadt.


N\'dollor/Woerrstadt, June 23th 2010


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