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n the world of renewable leaders, green is always greater than gold.
Acquiring all the gold in the planet will not equate to the impact of having all companies turn green. As the battle against the progressive climate change goes on, renewable leaders are taking steps, a hundred folds larger than ever. Renewable innovation in operations, products, systems, and services are being empowered across regions. Even the largest companies like Amazon have used their influence to spark change in the industry.
Calls for sustainability are not put into waste as more and more companies are turning the green light on. Some of the few great proofs are the industry leaders we featured the whole year. Their dedication to raising awareness and mobilizing sustainable technology and clean energy within the industry have created an immense progress in attaining a sustainable future.
In February, Anita Nuri, CEO of Green Energy Solutions and Sustainability LLC, shares why it’s important to target waste energy to reduce the environmental impact of landfills while generating power. The following month, Dr. Raed Bkayrat, the Managing Director of Clean Energy Business Council, discussed how this non-profit organization promotes the clean energy industry in the MENA region and leads several companies and government entities towards a decarbonized world.
The vision of making the world carbon neutral in the coming years would be very much possible as long as corporations will be responsive to the challenges and risks posed by our degrading environment.
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The Green Uprising April and May saw the innovations delivered by Amrita Ramona Shabla, co-founder of Sustainable Environmental Technologies (SET) and Dr. Shawn Xiaohua Qu, Chairman and CEO of Canadian Solar. Shabla tackled how SET became the leader in creative technology and how they focus on organic waste reduction at source. Meanwhile, Dr. Qu shared how his small company grew as a global player in the solar industry.
Meanwhile, Bertrand Camus, Senior Executive Vice President of SUEZ, graced our front cover for June and talked about how the company accelerates in providing clean and accessible water towards a future of sustainability. In July, we witnessed the story of Huang Min, CEO of GoodWe. Min told us how the company earned its position as the global top ten inverter manufacturer and top 5 in Asia by shipments.
The succeeding month revealed the inspiring story of Mr. Baixing Wang, Chairman Talesun Zhongli Group, the humble beginnings and the recent developments of Baixing’s Zhongli Sci-Tech Group, a top 500 private company and a top ten independent innovation enterprise in China. On the other hand, Stuart Harrison, Technical Director EMRILL, talked about how the company developed techniques
and facilities that had helped the UAE with its water scarcity.
For the last two months, we had two amazing CEOs from innovative companies Nick Blitterswyk, Chief Executive Officer of UGE and Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon. Blitterswyk talks about how Urban Green Energy (UGE), a project which started 10 years ago were able to help countries such the US, Canada, and the Philippines to expand their potential in solar powering communities. Meanwhile, Bezos talked about how the company is changing the landscape of carbon-emitting industries.
The vision of making the world carbon neutral in the coming years would be very much possible as long as corporations will be responsive to the challenges and risks posed by our degrading environment. Steps made by renewable green leaders are a clear manifestation that world business leaders are not merely after the gold; they are after turning the planet green.
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Landfil Gas Power Generation: Targeting Waste Energy Top of the landfill after the gas collection network is installed - no pipes showing Now ready to receive the next layer of waste.
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Landfill Gas Power Generation: Targeting Waste Energy Anita Nouri and her family moved to Dubai in 2009 to investigate the opportunities in sustainable Waste Management. “We believed that the region provided challenges that absolutely provide opportunity and that we could do something great”. Green Energy Solutions & Sustainability LLC was established in 2011 with the vision of targeting landfills in the region for sustainable waste management solutions that will reduce the impact that landfills have on the environment. The Company was established and structured around the Carbon Market that was booming at the time. With the collapse of the CDM markets in 2012 Green Energy Solutions & Sustainability LLC made a change in its business plan and moved towards the logical next step of generating power from the landfill gas that was passively being vented into the atmosphere. Today the site is operating on landfill gas that supplies all the electrical needs of the site and the Municipality site offices and scale house. We are a truly sustainable renewable energy project that is making a positive impact on the environment. How we started:
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This region has landfills. Landfill gas is mostly comprised of Methane (CH4) a GHG that has 28 times the global warming effect of CO2. By installing a degassing system and environmentally flaring the gas and thus eliminating the Methane you are reducing the impact of that harmful gas on the atmosphere. Green Energy Solutions & Sustainability LLC has designed engineered and constructed the Al Qusais Landfill in cooperation with Dubai Municipality. It is our flagship project and the largest landfill gas flaring project in the region that has been designed to reduce the impact of landfill gas. The design took into consideration that we wanted to keep the landfill active
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The Green Energy Solutions & Sustainability LLC Landfill gas flaring and power operation at Al Qusais - site from the top of the landfill
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flares and the J320 GE landfill gas engine that is providing 8The the power for the site operations
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Top of the landfill after the gas collection network is installed - no pipes showing Now ready to receive the next layer of waste.
Landfill Gas Power Generation: Targeting Waste Energy Anita Nouri and her family moved to Dubai in 2009 to investigate the opportunities in sustainable Waste Management. “We believed that the region provided challenges that absolutely provide opportunity and that we could do something great�. Green Energy Solutions & Sustainability LLC was established in 2011 with the vision of targeting landfills in the region for sustainable waste management solutions that will reduce the impact that landfills have on the environment. The Company was established and structured around the Carbon Market that was booming at the time. With the collapse of the CDM markets in 2012 Green Energy Solutions & Sustainability LLC made a change in its business plan and moved towards the logical next step of generating power from the landfill gas that was passively being vented into the atmosphere. Today the site is operating on landfill gas that supplies all the electrical needs of the site and the Municipality site offices and scale house. We are a truly sustainable renewable energy project that is making a positive impact on the environment. How we started: This region has landfills. Landfill gas is mostly comprised of Methane (CH4) a GHG that has 28 times the global warming effect of CO2. By installing a degassing system and environmentally flaring the gas and thus eliminating the Methane you are reducing the impact of that harmful gas on the atmosphere. Green Energy Solutions & Sustainability LLC has designed engineered and constructed the Al Qusais Landfill in cooperation with Dubai Municipality. It is our flagship project and the largest landfill gas flaring project in the region that has been designed to reduce the impact of landfill gas. The design took into consideration that we wanted to keep the landfill active
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The test flare - Landfills are tested to see how much gas can be captured and the results of the test set the parameters for the engineering of the site gas collection and system. Testing has already started at the Abu Dhabi landfill.
Students coming to the landfill learn how the gas is generated from the organic portion. They learn how we can produce electricity from capturing the waste gas and operating a landfill gas engine to provide the power to our site and hopefully to the grid.
so as not to build new landfills we wanted to optimize the existing landfills and make them more environmental while adding value by generating power. The struggles that we have faced are legislative for generating power from landfill gas, and the fact that there is no tariff for renewable energy in relation to landfill gas power generation, but we do see a light at the end of the tunnel. It is a mandate in other parts of the world for landfills to be degassed, it is our global responsibility to eliminate the environmental impact that landfill gas has on our climate. “The effects of global warming are a direct or indirect result of human activity� Landfills are the biggest emitter of Methane into the atmosphere. The goal was to keep the landfill active while reducing the environmental impact and be able to generate power, today Al Qusais in Dubai has the capacity to generate over 20 Mwh electricity. The project is registered with the United Nations under the CDM scheme, and is reducing the
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Gas engine looking up to the landfill behind
impact of methane by over 300,000 tons per year. That is the equivalent of removing over 80,000 cars off the roads. The Carbon Credits are sold to Norway to help them achieve their “Carbon reduction targets” and has a signed Emission Reduction purchase agreement which makes it the largest monetized CDM project of its size in the region. The GCC region and the UAE is still landfilling. Green Energy Solutions & Sustainability LLC is positioned as a leader in the region. We have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Ras Al Khaimah to degas the landfill and hope to generate power that can be utilized on site or to industry that is located close to the landfill. This project is still in development and we hope to finalize with the Government of Ras Al Khaimah this year. Green Energy Solutions & Sustainability LLC also has signed a contract with Tadweer – Center
This is how the flare is monitored for the UNFCCC. The site is monitored and all the information is recorded on a minute by minute basis. The information is then verified and the credits are reported on the UNFCCC website under CM project #8269
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of Waste Management in Abu Dhabi during the World Future Energy Summit this year in January a Landfill Gas to power generation project at the Al Dhafra landfill. The project has started the testing period where we will test for the quantity, quality and life of the gas that is generated by the landfill. We plan on starting construction of this site by April 2018 and target the 4th quarter of 2018 to start flaring and generating power from the landfill gas. This project is also under registration for CDM with the UNFCCC and is part of the Paris agreement that the UAE has signed the ratification to. The Al Dhafra project will be selling power to on site services and it will qualify as the largest landfill gas power generation project in the region. It is the time that we all have to work together. All renewable energy strategies need to align and support eachother. We do not have another chance to make the changes we need to make. It can only happen when we are open to discussion and take action. The message from GESS is that “All landfills need to be degassed, and utilized for power” we are doing what is right and hope that we can achieve the success of connection to the grid and generation of power. It is the lowest hanging fruit on the renewable chain. The region has set aggressive targets for renewable energy and landfill gas should be recognized as part of the initiatives. Zero Waste starts at the landfill. How can we optimize the waste that is there? How can we reduce the waste that is being sent to landfill? Education plays an important key and GESS welcomes schools and Universities from across the globe to see what can be done.
Benefits of Implementing Landfill Gas Projects - It supports all the targets – Environmental – Carbon reduction – Renewable energy – Social Responsibility – Positive Impact – Job Creation – Education – Economic supports sustainable development – Waste Management strategies – Generating Power reducing the use of Fossil Fuels
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The Qusais site receiving waste over 7,000 tons per day - the gas collection network is installed underground so that we can keep the landfill active and not disturb the day to day operation.
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Anita Nouri during the Big Project Middle East - winning Sustainable Project of the Year for three years in a row.
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‘Towards a decarbonized world – the socio-economic impact of decarbonization’ We cannot avoid it – as a global society, we need to ensure that we minimize our impact on the environment. Global warming is now not only a topic of discussion on governmental levels but a household topic around the dinner table. As the naysayers of global warming decrease by the day, the debate has shifted instead to its impact – and how to manage it.
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Worldwide, people are identifying ways to deal with the new reality resulting from climate change. From remote islands threatened with total disappearance in the next few decades, to the calamities farmers are facing in rural areas in India, to the South East of the USA and the Caribbean islands – all these communities are heavily impacted by environmental change. For example, in the US and the Caribbean, communities need to reconsider all aspects of their infrastructure, including revising their electrical network, to be more resilient through micro-grids and being able to cope with the severe yearly hurricanes hitting that region.
There are significant improvements we can be grateful for, moving things in the right direction. At this very moment, a cherry red electric vehicle (EV) is making its way into deep space, far away from planet earth, but hopefully ushering in a new era for EVs. We expect to see a significant increase in the adoption of EVs by end users driven by a price decline, the unveiling of more options on the consumer market and a wider base for selection. All these factors should lead to a double-digit compound annual growth rate for EVs, and hopefully make EVs a mainstream form of transportation over the next decade or so. Such a development will eliminate a significant source of pollution in our cities and allow for new economies to be built around the value chain of clean transportation, as well as help to improve health levels in inner cities and typically congested urban areas.
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The MENA region has been historically dominated by monopoly-based utilities and heavy government subsidies for electricity and water. This traditional model is changing rapidly into a regulated market, allowing for separation between generation, transmission and distribution. The market is now being freed up to allow the price of a cubic meter of water or kilowatt hour (KW-hr) of energy to reflect its true market cost, where margins are regulated by open competition and a level playing field for all players. We have seen significant markets for renewables open in the MENA region, such as in Morocco, Jordan and the UAE. More recently Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman have been added to
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Dr. Raed Bkayrat Managing Director Clean Energy Business Council
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this list. Current renewable developments have mainly been utility scale projects in wind, solar photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP) for power generation. In the last five years, we have seen the MENA region break records in project size and tariff on a global scale; such as the Sweihan 1.1 GWac solar PV plant in Abu Dhabi, or the 2.3 cents per KW-hr for the 300 MWac project in Skakka Saudi Arabia. The next Kuwait National Petroleum Company project in Kuwait is expected to exceed the 1.2 GWac mark, and we cannot forget Dubai Electricity and Water Authority’s largest CSP project at 7.3 cents per KW-hr. These major projects have ushered in a significant, though difficult and extremely competitive, utility scale renewable energy market in the MENA region. Utility scale markets tend to be limited in the number of deals in general, as well as being less impactful to small and medium enterprise (SMEs) that are willing to operate in the renewable space. Here, it is important to emphasize the value of the distributed solar PV value chain and its impact on SMEs, in terms of direct and indirect job creation. Distributed solar PV will also create a much higher deal count as opposed to large-scale utility projects. It is often said that the greenest KW-hr that any operation can achieve is the one that is often not used. Process optimization and energy
efficiency solutions are usually implemented first and used before renewables are applied as a subsequent phase. The initial process of optimization means achieving a desired output with the least energy intensity possible and can be reached by adjusting consumer behavior or an industrial process. For example, in a house, this could be using lights wisely and having a proper setting on the thermostat, or this can be in an industrial setting, optimizing the temperature of a kiln in a cement factory for example. Once this process optimization is done, the next step is applying energy efficiency solutions, where we would still achieve the same output with even lower energy intensity, by example using LED lights in homes or waste heat recovery solutions in industrial applications. Following this, we can achieve the same desired outcome by decarbonizing the already optimized energy used, applying renewables to generate electricity or, for example, heat and steam. This somewhat linear process is really the roadmap to achieving an optimized, low carbon footprint for any operation - which can be a household, industrial or a commercial environment. There is no tribalism when it comes to technology or selecting one policy or regulatory approach over another in the quest to achieving deep de-carbonization. It is important to maintain an open mind from both the private and public sector. We will need all the help
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we can get in our journey to building a 100% decarbonized world, and this needs to come to fruition sooner rather than later. We should consider all technologies - including nuclear energy, wind, solar, bio-gas, waste to energy and others - when it comes to finding a pathway to a decarbonized world, this mixed solution approach will allow our planet to suffer the least amount of damage in the long term. This multipronged approach will hopefully create a drastic shift, without which, we will not be able to steer away from the cliff which is almost upon us as a human race.
we follow the true definition of sustainability - we positively generate more than we consume – is a path that reflects a prosperous, healthy and economically viable future. Many industries are emerging around new technologies, and SMEs are being created to support the ongoing energy transition. This is turning a crisis into an opportunity for both developed and developing countries, whereby they can reinvent their economies and usher in a new future based on sustainable clean technology, job creation, community welfare and higher standards of living.
Having said that, it is important to stay positive and resilient in terms of our quest for decarbonization. There are many positive indicators that we are on a strong path to achieving our goal. Examples of this include the steep drop in renewable energy tariffs, and a wider global adoption of renewable technologies, as well as the availability of different financing tools with gradual policy developments. All these factors are indicators of a positive future ahead. The path to a totally decarbonized world, where
Humanity would have to triple - or quadruple - its current adoption rate of renewables and energy efficiency to make a significant impact, that would still achieve a change of less than the expected 2C degree rise which is now used as the benchmark for global warming. There are several areas that need to be considered, and improved, to allow for this massive rate of adoption to take place.
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These include: • Wider Technology commercialization by the private and public sectors. Our future, in ten or twenty years, will not necessarily be dominated, technology wise, by GW size light water nuclear reactors, Li-ion batteries or the silicon-based PV panels of today. There are several promising technologies that are at concept stage, or are even collecting dust on the shelf, in dire need of early stage funding to push it forward and bring into mainstream. • Rapid Policy and Regulation Development. This is an area which is the slowest to develop, due to the complexity of the regulatory systems and having inefficient and
bureaucratic government systems in many parts of the world. Regulators need to have a clear and open mind on what is needed to create real change, and they need to take initiative and be bold on their approach to the future. Lastly, no matter how successful one model or another has worked in any one country, regulators need to develop their own story - and live this story. Alternative power purchase agreements for solar power plants that offer capacity charges in certain hours of the day, or capacity commitments based on forward forecasting, are essential to maximizing the use and value of renewables with little additional cost to off takers, and with a lower impact on system integration costs of such renewable projects.
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• Creating alternative business and finance models. Finance is the blood stream for any industrial sector. Without it, projects and deals suffer, and are slow in coming to fruition. An open dialogue between the private and public sectors on the topic of finance for clean energy is paramount to achieving a wider depth of adoption for energy efficiency and renewables. • Developing a talented and skilled workforce across the value chain. Currently, there are over 10 million people working in renewable energy across the world. Numbers are increasing slowly in different regions, in total creating a double digit annual growth rate on a worldwide
scale. Emphasizing the need for engineers in clean energy, as well as project finance, legal and marketing graduates specialized in sustainability and clean energy, is essential. We live in a new era of sustainability, on a scale that has not been seen before. Still, this is dwarfed when compared to the current level of emissions that we are producing and its negative impact on our environment. Global warming is probably the biggest challenge faced by our planet earth but the resilience and determination of mankind on clean and sustainable energy will prevail, and we can save our planet for us and future generations to come.
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CEBC Top 10 Accomplishments: 1. Being the only organization to represent the whole clean energy spectrum in the MENA region 2. Targeting 56,000 students across 22 schools in the CEBC schools program 3. Providing a platform for Women in Clean Energy to encourage, network and support one another 4. Leading conversation on emerging and disruptive technologies, such as blockchain, and embracing new technologies (such as webinars) to share our knowledge 5. Promoting the uptake of clean energy through our networking, events and policy work 6. Our soon to be delivered sixth MENA Clean Energy Summit, which gets bigger and better every iteration 7. Bringing together key thought leaders in the clean energy sector in the MENA region to promote dialogue, discussion and progress 8. Helping to bridge the gap between the public and private sectors in the MENA region, connecting private organizations with government in support of change 9. Being able to share the knowledge of our amazing member organizations, providing them speaking opportunities and chances to collaborate with other organizations 10. Supporting our member organizations to grow their business, providing valuable expertise and growing the MENA region’s renewable energy capabilities and achievements
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About CEBC Registered as a Not for Profit Company in Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, the Clean Energy Business Council is the pre-eminent organization representing the private sector involved in the clean energy sector across the MENA region. Our goal is to establish a dialogue between the public and private sectors to drive the development of appropriate and much needed regulation and policy to support the development of this vital sector. We do this through our three arms of policy, networking and events, and our connectedness to the sector is crucial in our ability to help support and activate change in the MENA region. You may read more about us at cebcmena.com.
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The UAE is facing a major crisis in waste as the population is expected to increase rapidly over the next few years where over 26,000 hectares of landfill (In Abu Dhabi alone) are overflown to this date. In specific, food waste is directly sent to the landfill and dumped with no measures put in place. The process of landfilling food waste emits methane gas which is 25x more harmful than CO2 emissions. In this exclusive interview with Amrita Ramona Shabla, the COO of Sustainable Environmental 38
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Technologies (SET), learn how SET became the leader in creative technology and how they focus on organic waste reduction at source. Read about the company’s past achievements, recent breakthroughs and their future plans for expansion. Find out the environmental and social impacts of their products and their top accomplishments so far. Get the chance to know more about Amrita, her leadership style and her opinion on female leadership in the business.
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THE COMPANY Describe the company’s past achievements. SET is based in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi and incorporation with Her Highness Sheikha Alyazia Bint Sultan Bin Khalifa Al Nahyan. SET has managed to bring in the latest technologies into the Middle East. The UAE is facing a major crisis in waste as the population is expected to increase rapidly over the next few years where over 26,000 hectares of landfill (In Abu Dhabi alone) are overflown to this date. In specific, food waste is directly sent to the landfill and dumped with no measures put in place. The process of landfilling food waste emits methane gas which is 25x more harmful than CO2 emissions. We must make a change. Sustainable Environmental Technologies is the leading company for creative technology, focused on organic waste reduction at source. SET is proud to introduce ‘SET’s Food
Waste Solutions’ SmartCARA and r-Nature: a revolutionary product that will majorly contribute to the United Arab Emirates and the countries long-term vision. As the world moves into a more environmentally conscious era, household food waste (HFW) received considerable attention within the region, due to the environmental, economic and social impact it generates. HFW comprises of the largest single waste fraction generated by households (up to 61%). Following ten years of research and development, SET has created the perfect solution to an ongoing problem worldwide, a food waste composting technology that is efficient, compact, easy to operate and size sufficient. ‘SET’s Food Waste Solution’ will make the world a healthier and a more sustainable place to live in for the current and future generation by converting ‘Food Waste into Resource.’
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Describe the company’s recent achievements, breakthroughs or successful projects. The Waste Management of Abu Dhabi, TADWEER and SET just launched a collaborative awareness partnership to ‘Turn Food Waste into Food Resources’. Our aim is to educate all UAE individuals, so we can save our environment and future growth within this one planet we live in. Sustainable Environmental Technologies is shaping the generation and future generations of the United Arab Emirates. SET works with many different organizations and projects, such as the likes of Municipalities/ landfill projects, ADNOC, Al Bateen Palace in Abu Dhabi of ‘Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifa Al Nahyan’, Abu Dhabi Airport (Terminal Project), DWTC, Reem Weekend, Community projects, Masdar City, Barakat (Fruits & Vegetable Drinks), Dulsco and many more joining our ‘Zero Waste Movement’. We are proud to say that the latest project we have won is the world’s largest arena, ‘Dubai Arena Project’. Moreover, SET works with many schools throughout the Emirates who now participate with the UAE Green to Resource Movement by SET, such as the likes of Cranleigh International School, Al Arab School, Bright Riders School, INSEAD School of Business, Dubai Gem Private School, Zayed University and the list goes on. Furthermore, SET works with many exhibitions and events across the UAE to spread the knowledge, education and awareness of segregation at source and reducing waste with new evolving technology such as the ones produced here at SET. Where is the company headed? What are the future expansion plans and goals? SET is originated at Masdar City, Abu Dhabi. SET’s vision is to ensure “The 40
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Product” becomes available to every household throughout the Middle East. The purpose of SET Limited is the following: -To deliver industry and capability products allowing a pathway of lifetime technological solutions, in support of stakeholders and the National Environmental Framework. - To provide an Environmental Solution to end consumers from all levels of the community/ industry/ government/ sites. - To provide quality cost effective products which shall encourage and challenge end users to achieve environmental standards of excellence, in supportive communities where there is respect for the individual and cultural differences of all clients and staff. SET strictly abides by the UAE rules and regulations at all time. - SET has a second branch in Abu Dhabi City, Al Reem Island, Addax Tower and has recently expanded operations across the 7 emirates and neighboring countries with full technicians and consultants able to cater for all demand and enquiries. - Expansion plans have already involved across GCC, even Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and many other neighbors. SET has appointed distributors across Russia, Europe and other explosive countries on the hunt towards a healthier and growing future and we here SET are here to make sure we can cater for you all. - SET will be eliminating ‘Plastic Bags’ and ‘Plastic Use’ in the Middle east, the most innovating product has been created, which will be seen in the market soon. - SET’s goal is to become the ‘One Stop Store’ for ‘Waste Solutions’, currently we have opened SET Labs,
Top 5 Accomplishments of SET • SET joining hands and incorporating with Her Highness Sheikha Alyazia Bint Sultan Bin Khalifa Al Nahyan • SET teaching Schools/Universities and Children with Disability about how younger generation can make a change today for a great future • SET Winning the #1 Largest Arena Project ‘Dubai Arena’. • SET collaborating with government entities such as: ‘The Center of Waste Management’, TADWEER. • SET opening their own SET LAB’s in Abu Dhabi to develop further research and innovating products that will change the way we live.
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were we invest a large amount on ‘Research and Development’, the reason for this is make sure SET is always 10 steps ahead of the game and innovation. We know one thing, to be the most successful organization within the waste industry, you must be the most knowledgeable, the biggest student, excellent listener and fail over and over again to achieve greatness and that is what we have imbedded into our teams at SET and our researches and developers. At the end of the day you must innovate further into research to develop the optimum solution not just for the people but for the country. So yes, SET is about vision, goal, persistency and time, at the end of the day, one thing you can never get back is time, hence we are already working on two more prototypes which will eliminate animal bedding and general waste, so keep an eye out for Sustainable Environmental Technologies. 42
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THE PRODUCT Discuss your products and innovations. SmartCara and Reddonatura will make the world a healthier and a more sustainable place to live in. SET has created the perfect solution to an ongoing problem worldwide, a food waste composting technology that is efficient, compact, easy to operate, size/ electric sufficient and overall a delight to use and have within your home or company. SET’s solutions help you manage your waste in an efficient, economical manner. The aim is to reduce food waste at source by up to 97%. You can place all types of ‘Organic Matter’ into the solution from: Chicken Bones, Egg Shells, Ingredients, Vegetables, fruits, Garden Waste, Sludge/ Animal Waste/Ingredients/ Raw & Out-dated waste- the list goes on.
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Within ‘ONLY’ 3- 4 hours you receive a 97% reduction within volume and the residue (3% left) may be used as a highly nutrient organic fertilizer or soil enhancer. The product varies in size suiting households, commercials and industries depending on the amount of waste produced (Capacities: 2kg, 10kg, 20kg, 25kg, 75kg, 125kg, 500kg, 1000kg, 1250kg and up to 15 Tons). For the larger units, a bespoke made (customized) unit is manufactured as per the client’s requirement. The next set of ‘Product Solutions’ will cover many sectors of waste, within animal bedding, general waste, which includes plastic and glass. We will also be looking to turn the by-product into a resource that can help us build more glamour’s buildings, create new roads and homes but in a more sustainable manner for the generation today.
Who created the product and how did it come to life? The innovation behind all the solutions came from various individuals who came together to make and create something that is needed within this planet and generation. One of the key individuals of research, build and development in the coming products is Mr Assaad Maalouf, who is a true mirror of creativity, innovation and design. How can I say this? He is the ‘Lab Genius’ of this generation and is evolving solutions as days, weeks and months go by. He is a real talent and individual to have within our organization here in SET and also my partner in establishing ‘Sustainable Environmental Technologies’. What are the environmental and social impacts of your products?
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SET is aiming for zero landfills by 2030. Now we don’t want this only for UAE/GCC but also for all neighboring countries, so we can shape more minds and set them towards SET’s ‘Go Green Waste to Resource Movement.’ We can be part of the solution or if you want to call it the revolution, or we can sit back and let the planet do the calling? The choice is yours and only yours! The only things we need are commitment and participation from everyone and anyone across the globe who believes in a better, brighter change towards this planet and the passion to create something different, so we can achieve positive change together. Many areas like ‘Saadiyat Island Communities’, JBR Residence, Dubai Gardening Groups and Al Reem Communities have really understood the social responsibilities behind SET’s movement. We all have to make an impact, right? So what kind of impact do you want to make in your life? We all are brought into this planet to do something great, right? So why not do something great towards humankind, environment and our natural habitats. The call is yours. Over flowing of landfills is one of the major problems of the earth. It releases Methane Gases that can be very harmful for us humans and the natural habitats around us. We want to educate not only young minds but also generations throughout the hierarchy. SET can achieve UAE’s aim towards 75% landfill diversion by 2021, only if, everyone can support this movement and take on the challenge to reduce waste at source. SET’s household solutions are as simple as switching on the coffee machine. What are you waiting for?
Let’s work together and create a global change as ‘ONE TEAM’.
About Amrita: Amrita Ramona Shabla is a visionary entrepreneur with more than 14 years experience in business. She is the epitome of the positive, optimistic and energetic leader within any type of organization especially in Sustainable Environmental Technologies, which she herself found with her partner in Masdar City and is now running her own empire business for 3 years. Amrita is complimented for her highly skilled communication, motivation and energy that is shaping the current people of UAE by her educating individuals (B2C,B2B,B2G) of what segregation, recycling, reducing and reusing can do for any country. In parallel, she is the organizer who combines her talent for management by fully driving SET to becoming the #1 Waste Solution Company in the United Arab Emirates. She trains and develops her team towards vision, growth, motivation, persistency and fun, assuring the companies values are the ‘Customers’. Amrita cares about her clients and partners, whom she views as the key to growth and development to success. Overall, she is a woman who was made to make a difference in our world today!
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TRIVIA Can you give us a trivia about your company or services that no one knows about? A trivia about SET that no one knows, well, I will say this, SET will become a family-run business soon, meaning, wedding bells will be in one of the chapters of our story.
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“Be the reason for people to unlock their potential, everyone is born to make a difference and it is not ‘IF’ but ‘WHEN’ you decide to take that step when success starts to follow.”
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THE PERSON Introduce yourself. My name is Amrita Ramona Shabla, 29 years old and originally born and raised in Munich, West Germany. I am one of the founders of Sustainable Environmental Technologies and have previous 12 years experience in business. Furthermore, I have completed my full educational cycle in London, which developed me as a person by working with different people from various of cultures and backgrounds. I have a great mother, sister and brother, who have been my inspiration behind staying positive, optimistic, persistent and working towards a great future for them. You could say they are the reason ‘WHY’ I do what I do, and I fear no type of failure but only see it as a step towards success and establishment. My passion and 10 years of experience in acting, dance and performance has developed my characteristics and performance skills within the sales sector and communication towards my current customers and potential. Relationship building is the key to unlock your full potential and also reminds you to stay a student to keep learning and developing. Define your leadership style. While there are people who seem to be naturally endowed with more leadership abilities than others, people can learn to become leaders by improving particular skills. Leadership is a winning combination of personal traits and the ability to think and act as a leader, to be a person who directs the activities of others for the good of all. My belief is simple, I have to support, grow and teach others around me to become better than me, so they can be the success of the business and themselves. Most organizations do not follow this, hence most directors, managers and staff members never end up using maximum capacity of their abilities and remain working within a clockwise routine and end up taking their dreams, aspirations and ideas to their deathbeds. It is a brutal thought, but it is the truth and one thing I have learned from other practitioners, honesty and transparency is the key to change. “Anyone can be a leader...” History is full of people who, while having no previous leadership experience, have stepped to the fore in crisis situations and persuaded others to follow their suggested course of action. I am going to give you an example of someone who I look up to and who has really made an impact within telecommunication and technology: Mr Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs is a classic example of someone who was
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probably not born to be a leader. After starting Apple Computer from his garage in 1976 he was fired by the board of directors in 1985 when the company was under intense competition and he disagreed with the CEO on of the future direction of the business. After founding Pixar Animation Studios and NeXT Computer, he was eventually rehired by Apple in 1997 as CEO and went on to develop the revolutionary iPod, iPhone, and many other products. Now what does that show you? Keep moving towards your dreams and make them come alive, no matter who stops you, says no, doesn’t believe or shuts the door. I stand here in Sustainable Environmental Technologies and work exactly the same way, we do not stop with a ‘NO’, we do not push talent away, we do not close of ideas and suggestions from team members, as we know and believe each member is equal to the owners and each individual has something to give towards the growth of SET, that is what true leadership is about. “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.” Steve Jobs Women in Leadership: What are the challenges of being a female leader? Let’s be honest here. A lot of people always talk about the position women have within society - to reproduce, to take care of the household and to teach their children from right to wrong. I mean, yes, all of these factors are important but not just for women but for men too, right? The 50-50 rule should be applied not just within the household but also within the work space. We need to move with time and the changes women have made within time is incredible (globally). Not just do we work within the household, teach our children but we work as equal or if I may say, even harder within the work place to represent strength, leadership and a status within a business hierarchy. I do believe in certain countries women are not empowered in the sense they choose not to do much, they are comfortable and have no reason to work as the men do it all for them. I completely
disagree with this mindset and I see it too many times here in the United Arab Emirates and we need to put a stop to it. It is disappointing to see that most women in this country do not see the benefits given to them purely out of stats and then do nothing with it. Instead, these females sit on their phones during work hours, chit-chat with colleagues and most end up work hours from 8.30am-2.00pm (Half a day). This in my eyes is unacceptable and puts a flip on why it is challenging for a female leader in this country to be taken seriously. I have sat with some of the most entitled organizations with men as their leaders and the conversation leads in the same direction, to zero result, why? I tell you why, because of their perception and understanding of what females can do, should do and shouldn’t do, this comes from the natural course of their women at home, so why would they take someone like me seriously in business if what I was made for is once again reproduce, take care of the household and teach the children from right and wrong. The challenge is not being a female leader, the challenge is the mindset of females within this country that I find difficult to digest. So if you are reading this, I call out to you and ask you to make a change today. I ask you to stand up and let your voice be heard no matter what your status or position may be. Change can only be made if you start to make a change, difference can only be seen once a difference in ethics is presented, female leadership will only be taken seriously if you start taking yourself seriously and shape the future of our younger female leaders. Time can never be reversed, so why would you want to always be at the back of the train? Start leading and directing it. If you ask me, I do not find it challenging to be a female leader, no objection or rejection will stop my drive and motivation to keep moving forward, so if you are out there and are a female reading this, join the movement, jump on this train and direct it with all the other female leaders globally. I say to you all, become the optimum ‘Female Leader’ within your region or country today, don’t let anyone tell you any different, leave a mark behind in the world that will one day guide another ‘Female Leader’ to success.
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The Success Story of Canadian Solar:
From A Vision to Becoming A Global Player in The Solar Industry When Dr. Qu started Canadian Solar in 2001, he never dreamed of creating a multi-billion dollar company and has kept his humble approach until now. Today, Canadian Solar has operations all over the globe and ships 26 GW of solar modules with an annual turnover of $3.39 billion. In this exclusive interview with the company’s founder, Dr. Shawn Qu, learn more about how the company started, the challenges it had along the way, its latest technologies and product innovations, and the future plans of Dr. Qu for the company.
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The Challenges and Success Story of the Company Dr. Shawn Qu founded Canadian Solar in 2001 with little more than a vision and his personal savings. Just 17 years later the company operates in over 6 continents and achieved an annual turnover of $3.39 billion with over 26 GW of solar modules shipped cumulatively in 2017. An impressive success story is continuously ongoing. When Dr. Qu started Canadian Solar in 2001, he never dreamed of creating a multi-billion dollar company and has kept his humble approach until now. “Back then, my vision was to create a company working on renewables, which I thought would be good for human beings and would allow me to feed my family.”
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Canadian Solar developed from the courage of a visionary, into a global player in the solar industry. The first step in this success story, however, was a big one: winning one of the most significant projects in Canadian Solar history. Volkswagen Mexico was looking for a solar device to keep parked cars charged overnight. Being there at the right time, Dr. Qu took on the challenge to develop a suitable product, yet with many uncertainties at that time. “The challenge was that I had to develop a product and purchase an order without my company being fully set-up yet. Furthermore, financing as well as the built-up of a factory was still unclear. I had to do my budgeting. Where was the money going to come from, let alone the equipment?” We know the outcome, Dr. Qu made it and developed the perfect solution, built a plant in China, shipped hundreds of thousands of units to Volkswagen and expanded the company steadily ever since.
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Over the years, Canadian Solar has seen favorable times in the solar industry, as well as struggles with dropping prices and several political challenges – yet survived them all and came out stronger than before. Most of all, smart business decisions, e.g. decided to getting into the downstream and became a solar project developer, instead of just being an upstream producer of ingots, wafers, cells and modules, have proven to be the decisive factor in the success story of Canadian Solar and Dr. Qu as its CEO and owner.
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The Latest Technologies and Product Innovations Success hasn’t changed Dr. Qu much, although he says he gets less anxious about the business than he once did, since he has delegated a lot of the day-to-day work to his management team. Yet, he still gets excited about the present and future, since there is no end to innovations and continuous development of Canadian Solar globally. For each company, particularly in the everchanging landscape of the solar industry, product innovations are key to continuous success. Dr. Qu, graduating from the University
of Toronto, with MSc in physics; from the University of Mintoba as well as a BSc in applied physics from the Tsinghua University in Beijing, has remained an engineer at heart and has transformed this curiosity into the DNA of his company. With a strong and innovative R&D department, Canadian Solar has transformed the solar industry in many aspects. This can be seen in one of the latest product innovations, which has led to an increase of module efficiency of up to 19.2%, using HDM (high-density module) technology. Another example is our new Ku Modules, offering the highest power wattage among all the poly silicon PV module products, reaching or surpassing the power wattage of mono products.
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The Expansion of New Services In addition to the enhancement and new development of products, Canadian Solar is also keen to keep up to date with growth by continuous expansion of its service offerings. Thus the establishment of a new business unit has come to focus in early 2018. The Company announced at the Solar Asset Management and O&M Conference in San Francisco that it has launched a new worldwide business unit focused on delivering solar Operations and Maintenance Services for utility-scale power plants to third party customers. “Our O&M business was born out of necessity to operate and maintain our own utility scale solar power plants in Ontario, Canada,” said Dr. Shawn Qu. “Since all the solar plants were our own, we built the O&M team to provide the best quality of service and operations in order to maximize the value of our own solar assets. Now we are making these best practices and processes, fully ingrained in our O&M team’s DNA, available to third-party asset owners.” © Canadian Solar
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Successful Listing of the Canadian Solar Infrastructure Fund (CSIF) in 2017 In addition to product innovations and new service offerings, Canadian Solar also has a clear vision on markets and a healthy financial development. Consequently, with long-term success in Japan, Canadian Solar Infrastructure Fund (CSIF) was successfully listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) on October 30, 2017. This significant milestone symbolizes the steady growth and trust in Canadian Solar as a brand as well as trusted financial partner in the solar industry.
The Future Outlook of Canadian Solar Canadian Solar has a continuous outlook on a healthy growth and expansion. Part of this strategy is the steady observation of market conditions and the increase of ingot, wafer, cell and module capacities.
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For the full year 2018, the Company expects total module shipments to be in the range of 6.6 GW to 7.1 GW. Total revenue for the full year 2018 is expected to be in the range of $4.4 billion to $4.6 billion. We expect approximately 53% of total revenue for 2018 to come from our Solar Module and Components Business, while the balance will come from our Energy Business. The Energy Business revenue will mainly come from monetization of the Company’s solar power plants in the U.S., Japan, China and the UK. Dr. Shawn Qu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Canadian Solar commented, “Moving into 2018, we have seen price adjustment throughout the solar value chain. We expect that our technology, new products and the increase in vertical integration along the manufacturing process will help the Company further build upon its leadership position.”
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The Company’s Projects Canadian Solar has a solid track record to develop and deliver solar power projects across the globe. As of February 28, 2018, we pride ourselves in having connected over 3.8 GW of solar projects worldwide, with over 11GW of total project pipeline, including 2 GW of late-stage projects which will be connected to the grid within the next 2 – 4 years. We are also on track to monetize our solar power assets, for example, we completed the sale of our interests in a total of 309 MWp of solar plants in the U.S. to Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), South Korea’s largest electric utility in March 2018. In addition to our strong footprint in developing and delivery of solar power projects, we also do make a difference in the supply of modules to various projects, particularly the EMEA region. In 2017, we commissioned the opening of the 24
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Robben Island Solar Park, located on the equally named island of Robben Island. This island has such importance to the people of South Africa, Robben Island was a high-security prison where Nelson Mandela was jailed for 18 years. As Canadian Solar we do believe as is our slogan ‘to make a difference’ in the world, bringing clean energy to its people. And since Nelson Mandela and his campaign for social justice have always held a special space in my heart, I was greatly pleased when Canadian Solar was selected to supply the solar modules for the iconic 666.4 kW solar system on Robben Island, near Cape Town in South Africa. It is now designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Yet another project, we are extremely proud of particularly in the Middle East, is the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park Phase A, DEWA III Solar Park Project. Upon completion, this project will be a major milestone for Canadian Solar as well as fully change the energy landscape of the UAE (United Arab Emirates).
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Canadian Solar had been selected as the sole module supplier to provide 268 MW of modules for the first phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai. The project, totaling 800 MW in size, consists of three phases. When completed in 2020, the project will be one of the world’s largest single-location solar parks. The EPC Joint Venture (JV) Consortium consists of Acciona, Gransolar and Ghella. Canadian Solar’s proven track-record, solid bankability and high-quality standards were key factors in winning the mandate from the EPC JV. As a pioneer in double-glass module manufacturing technology, Canadian Solar has
delivered several GW of double-glass modules worldwide since 2013.
The Methodologies in Creating Innovative Solutions For The Clients Overall, Canadian Solar is multifaceted, which has given us the competitive edge over the years. First and foremost, we have diversified our offering with state-of-the art technology providing best quality, high-efficiency at reasonable costs to our customers. Furthermore, we are not just a module manufacturer, but also a project developer which allows us to be a strong partner to our customers, along the entire value chain. Renewable Green Leaders � May 2018
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Get To Know Dr. Shawn Qu His Personal Background
Raised by his parents, both university professors in mathematics, Dr. Shawn Xiaohua Qu, has been raised in China during the cultural revolution of the ‘60s and ‘70s as “materially poor but spiritually rich”. His parents instilled a love of knowledge in him, while circumstance ingrained frugality. Both attributes have proved fundamental to Canadian Solar’s success, which, while significant, has been far from an overnight affair. Shawn Qu arrived in Canada in 1987, shortly after the Chinese government first allowed students to leave the country to study abroad. In his mid-20s at the time, he had an undergraduate physics degree from Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University and the promise of a scholarship from the University of Manitoba. After completing his master’s degree in physics, Mr. Qu moved to the University of Toronto to do a PhD in materials science. It was here that his interest in solar power first took hold. After graduation, he took a position at Ontario Hydro (now called Ontario Power Generation) working on a solar power project that was subsequently sold to ATS Automation Tooling Systems in Cambridge, Ont. As luck would have it, ATS had also bought Photowatt, a French solar product manufacturing firm that gave Dr. Qu exposure to yet another culture.
His Education Dr. Qu received a Ph.D. Degree in Material Science from University of Toronto in 1995, a M.Sc. Degree in Physics from University of Manitoba in 1990 and a B.Sc. in Applied Physics from Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) in 1986.
From 1995-1996, Shawn was a Post Doctorate Research Fellow at University of Toronto focusing on semiconductor optical devices.
His Honorary Titles and Recognitions In 2010, Dr. Shawn Qu was selected as one of the first group of 25 people out of the Chinese government’s 1000 overseas talent program and later was awarded the title by the state council as China’s Distinguished Expert for Dr. Qu’s significant contribution in starting and developing the solar industry in China. From 2011 to 2013, Shawn was an honorary professor at Tsinghua University, the top university in China, for the development of the renewable energy research program. Shawn has been actively involved in various solar industry associations and holds key positions. Among them are member of Photovoltaic Special Committee of China Renewable Energy Association, Vice Chairman of Chinese Photovoltaic Industry Association, and Executive Vice Chairman of Jiangsu Province Photovoltaic Industry Association.
His Public Speaking Engagements Dr. Shawn Qu is viewed as the global solar industry leader. In the past few years, Dr. Qu has been an invited speaker at the IFC Climate Change Conference, the International Economic Forum Americas, the Wall Street Journal Economics Forum, Bloomberg’s New Energy Finance Forum, International Energy Forum, Solar Power International, TEDx Talks, and many other prestigious forums, special interviews at China’s most viewed TV programs “Dialogue”, “Brainstorming” and “Bosstown”.
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The Company’s Top Projects By Market Middle East DEWA III, Phase B, 268 MW, Dubai, Middle East Canadian Solar been selected as the sole module supplier to provide 268 MW of modules for the first phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai. The project, totaling 800 MW in size, consists of three phases. When completed in 2020, the project will be one of the world’s largest singlelocation solar parks. The EPC Joint Venture (JV) Consortium consists of Acciona, Gransolar and Ghella. Canadian Solar’s proven track-record, solid bankability and high-quality standards were key factors in winning the mandate from the EPC JV. As a pioneer in double-glass module manufacturing technology, Canadian Solar
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has delivered close to 1 GW of double-glass modules worldwide since 2013. The first shipments of Canadian Solar’s frameless Dymond (CS6X-P-FG) have left the module factory this month and will reach the DEWA III project site in June 2017. The project will use more than 800,000 double-glass modules upon its completion. The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park is part of the Dubai Integrated Energy Strategy 2030, which seeks to secure a sustainable supply of energy through diversification in sources. Dubai aims to reduce its reliance on imported natural gas and increase solar energy to 7% of the total by 2010 and 15% by 2030. Zaatari Refugee Camp, 12.9 MW, Jordan, Middle East 40,000 Canadian Solar Dymod panels are providing green energy for to 80,000 Syrian refugees living in Jordan’s Zaátari camp. Commissioned in November 2017, the 12.9 MW project provides families with between 12 and 14
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hours electricity each day. Residents say the extra power will vastly improve their lives, allowing them to complete their daily chores earlier and prevent children from having to play outside on the dusty streets after dark. The plant reduces the annual carbon dioxide emissions from the camp by 13,000 metric tons per year, equivalent to 30,000 barrels of oil. The 12.9 megawatt peak solar photovoltaic plant was funded by the Government of Germany through the KfW Development Bank at a cost of 15 million euros (US$ 17.5 million).
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Energy and the Department of Tourism of South Africa. The solar PV farm consists of 1960 Canadian Solar CS6U-340M high-efficiency modules with a total of 666.4 kW power supply. Soroti Photovoltaic Plant, 10MW, Uganda, West-Africa Canadian Solar has supplied 10 MW of PV Modules to Soroti Photovoltaic Plant in Uganda. The project is the largest of its kind in East Africa and was officially inaugurated end of 2016.
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Delfzijl, Netherlands, 30MW Solar Park
The microgrid solar project has been designed and constructed by SOLAR Future Energy, the EPC partner of the Department of Tourism, using CS6U-340M Canadian Solar modules. The official solar system inauguration took place on Robben Island on October 19th, 2017. Dr. Shawn Qu, Chairman, President and CEO Canadian Solar Inc. was invited as guest of honor by SOLA Future
Canadian Solar has recently supplied the largest solar park in Netherlands. Located in the harbor area, also known as Oosterhorn, Delfzijl project was built by Wirsol GmbH using 16,335 Canadian Solar CS6P-265P modules. The installation is in operation since January 2017, being expected to generate annually approximately 27,634 MW and to save up to 17,962 tons of CO².
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SUEZ: Making Our Planet Cleaner and Sustainable
In this special interview with Bertrand Camus, SUEZ’s Group Senior Executive Vice President in charge of Africa, Middle East, India, Asia and Pacific, get to know SUEZ and the company’s success stories and latest technologies and product innovations. Learn more about their future expansion plans, how we can make our water accessible, cleaner and sustainable and their top notable projects. Camus also shares what his leadership style is and how women can overcome the struggles of being leaders in the industry.
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THE COMPANY Describe the company’s past achievements, its challenges and success stories. With a history in the water and waste management stretching back over 160 years, SUEZ has been part of the major social revolution in the 19th century - public health - and in the 20th century - modern urban services. Today, new challenges have emerged. The linear model (extract, produce and consume) has come to an end. The roaring effects of climate change and the growing scarcity of resources call for a new model to generate growth: the circular economy model. Since 2015, SUEZ has placed the circular economy at the heart of its transformation. All Group brands (SITA, Lyonnaise des Eaux, United Water, Degremont, Safège, etc) have been brought together under the single brand name of SUEZ, positioned in the sustainable management of resources. Alongside the resource revolution, we are
also facing the digital revolution that is transforming our activities. As a true driver of its transformation, innovation is at the heart of the Group’s strategy. We mobilize the resources offered by the digital to provide new solutions to our clients in the field of smart & real-time monitoring and data management. As an example, we have completed last year the rollout of VISIO centers in France to provide a 360° vision and monitoring of water and wastewater services across the country, offering better management and optimization of the service, and greater sharing of data with local authorities and users. Building on that success, the Group has just launched Valovisio®, the first smart center for waste management and recovery. SUEZ has accelerated its development through acquisitions: it purchased Aguas de Barcelona (Agbar), a company specialized in water cycle management in Spain and other countries in Latin America. In 2017, the Group acquired GE Water for €3.2 billion in order to boost its presence on the industrial water market and support international growth.
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Tell us about your latest technologies and product innovations. Last year, SUEZ established a new Business Unit Water Technologies & Solutions (WTS) following completion of the acquisition of GE Water. This new entity is a unique platform in a booming industrial water market. It represents a strategic shift for SUEZ that is fully in line with its development strategy and more particularly 3 of its 4 growth drivers: industrial customers, international development and smart solutions. Indeed, it improves SUEZ’s revenue profile with industrial clients now representing 40% of the Group’s revenues. WTS also provides SUEZ greater balance in terms of its geographic presence, with approximately 40% of revenues generated outside Europe. We are consolidating our international presence in key regions, particularly in the United States, and capturing growth opportunities in emerging markets such as Asia-Pacific and Latin America. We have also strengthened our capacity for innovation (2,500 patents and a network of 12 R&D centers) and will join the digital revolution. A true geographical and technological complementarity that will enable to accelerate the Group’s profitable growth strategy. The Group continued to develop its business in all regions and activities in 2017. At international level, SUEZ has strengthened its presence in Latin America, with the €195m contract for the extension and operation of Panama City’s wastewater treatment Ganay Basin in Marseille, France
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plant. In the Middle East, a soil remediation contract worth €107m was signed in Qatar to rehabilitate 400 ha of lagoons south-west of Doha with the objective of improving and preserving the region’s environment. Lastly, in Australia, SUEZ pursued its development with contracts for household waste collection in Brisbane (€600m, 16 years) and for the construction of a wastewater recycling plant in Perth. SUEZ has also accelerated the rollout of smart solutions and new services. We worked with major local authorities and metropolitan areas to co-develop smart cities and sustainable territories. These include Dijon Metropole in France for connected management of its public spaces. A consortium - made up of Bouygues Energies & Services and Citelum, along with SUEZ and Capgemini - builds and will maintain for 12 years a connected control center for the public facilities of 24 municipalities in the metropolitan area. What are the future expansion plans and goals of the company? As previously explained, one of the major highlights of 2017 was the acquisition of GE Water, a game-changer for SUEZ with its potential for growth acceleration. 2018 will be a year of growth for SUEZ. At an international scale, the Group will keep supporting the environmental transition: scarcity of resources, demographic growth, galloping urbanisation… new environmental requirements are growing all over the world.
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Wastewater treatment plant of Aquapole in Grenoble
The Group is consolidating and expanding its activities and markets in countries where it has been active for a long time (USA, Australia, China, Morocco, Chile), while at the same time expanding its positions in countries or regions with high potential for its activities (India, Middle East, Latin America, etc.), and selectively continuing its development across structural 64 projects or sustainable locations in new regions (sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia).
As an example, in Australia, SUEZ is building a new 14 million m3/year Advanced Water Recycling Plant located in the Northern suburbs of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. The water treated will be used to recharge the aquifers, which provide about half of Perth’s drinking water supplies.
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ABOUT WATER How can we make our water accessible, cleaner and sustainable? What are your projects and initiatives to make this happen? Water availability and quality is a limiting factor for industrial and community growth, and the need to do more with less is intensifying. Human population today consumes 5% of the available water resource on the planet. As for the industry, it consumes between 15% and 20% whereas agriculture accounts for more than 70 percent. There will be no human development without industrial development. Indeed, the first tangible consequences of climate change are already threatening the quality and quantity of water resources, especially in emerging countries. The industrial water demand will necessarily grow in the coming years. As a consequence, the water sector will grow significantly in developing regions (India, Africa, Latin America, South-East Asia…) with steady participation from private operators, due to the combined effects of intense urbanization, growing industrialization, rising living standards among the population (expectation of better services like 24/7 water supply), increasing pressure on water availability and more stringent regulations on environmental protection and pollution control. These challenges imply huge investment programs, both on drinking water, wastewater infrastructures and rehabilitation of existing water networks to reduce leaks.
In Cameroun, SUEZ is currently building the drinking water production plant of 300,000 m3/day in Yaoundé, the capital, on behalf of Chinese company SINOMACH-CMEC. This project will respond to the drinking water needs of the fast-growing population of Yaoundé, which today has nearly 3 million inhabitants, and will support the capital city’s economic development.
For example, in India, SUEZ has designed and built more than 250 water and wastewater treatment plants and currently operates 25 of them. SUEZ also plays the role of a water services provider for major municipalities such as Bangalore, New Delhi, Kolkata, Coimbatore and Davanagere. Its activities contribute towards the distribution of 5 billion liters of drinking water to over 44 million people every day. Our water services expertise has benefited 15 million people across large cities in India. In developed countries like China, new projects are still ongoing in connection with population growth, urban development and sustained economic and industrial growth over the past
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30 years while water resources are becoming scarce. Desalination for example is developing to supply drinking water to coastal populations in regions that suffer from water stress and to supply high water-consuming industries.
low-carbon economy by encouraging new consumption and production models. The Group subscribes to the two-degree trajectory by raising the ambitions of its previous roadmap.
The Chinese government decided to increase the volume of drinking water produced by desalination plants from 1 million to 3 million m3 per day by 2020.
We’re determined to limiting the carbon footprint of our business activities in all the countries where we operate with absolute GHG emission reduction targets of more than 30% by 2030. Equipping all storage sites with biogas recovery systems, reinforcing the clean vehicle policy and increasing the energy performance of our business activities will contribute to reaching this goal.
SUEZ NWS has built over 250 water and wastewater treatment plants in Greater China, supplying drinking water to 20 million people. In August 2017, we have inaugurated the 4th drinking water plant (130 000 m3/day) invested, designed, built, and operated by SUEZ NWS in Macao. How can we make our waste sustainable?
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Through its 2017-2021 Sustainable Development Roadmap, SUEZ is committed to become a leader of the circular and
We are also committed to helping our industrial customers and local authorities to avoid more than 60 million tonnes of greenhouse gas by 2021 through dedicated circular economy solutions (material and energy recovery), while doubling the recycling of plastic, a major economic and environmental issue for everyone.
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Giving plastics a second life is a virtuous example of circular economy. Producing one tonne of recycled plastic saves five barrels of petroleum, the equivalent of 1.6 tonne of CO2 and up to 90% of energy compared to producing one tonne of virgin plastic. SUEZ, a key player in plastic recycling with 9 dedicated plants in Europe, processes over 400,000 tonnes of plastic each year across the continent and already produces 150,000 tonnes of recycled polymers. It has set an objective of increasing its processing capacity by 50%, to over 600,000 tonnes, by 2020. SUEZ also takes actions about the consequences of climate change on water, by promoting different usages of water by tripling its alternative water supplies by 2030 and systematically offer its customers resilience plans. Leakage detection in the Malviya Nagar district in Delhi
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TRIVIA Symbol of New York, the Statue of Liberty should not have been there. Designed by the French artist Auguste Bartoldi, it was originally intended to be located in Suez, at the mouth of the canal on the Red Sea. This is one of the many stories told at the exhibition “L’épopée du Canal de Suez” currently taking place at the Arab World Institute (IMA) in Paris. SUEZ, indeed, was born from the Universal Maritime Suez Canal Company (Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez), formed by Ferdinand de Lesseps in 1858. The corporation constructed the Suez Canal between 1859 and 1869 and operated it until 1956.
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THE PERSON Introduce yourself . A French native, I have spent many years living and working overseas, including in the United States as CEO of SUEZ North America from 2008 to 2015. Being back in France since 2015, I am currently in charge of Africa, Middle-East, India, Asia and Australia within SUEZ Group. I am married, with two young adult sons. I grew up in Guyana where my father was a French government representative. I am a diligent golf player.
Define your leadership style. No leadership style is better than the others; all have a specific time and situation in which they will be the most effective. I am trying to adapt the form of my leadership depending on the team member - like a chef does knives, based on what he/she needs at the time and what is the best tool for him/her to do the job.
How do you think can women overcome the struggles of being a leader in your industry? All companies within the SUEZ Group share a common focus on developing gender equality: gender diversity in job roles, equal pay, equal access to career management and training. This policy is supported by specific programs such as mentoring and coaching. Three editions of the mentoring program have been launched since 2012 with the objectives of accelerating the careers of women within the Group, developing their leadership skills. 96 women employees in Europe have already been involved. The women newly appointed Senior Executives (TOPEX) have all participated in the mentoring program and 30 women have moved to a position with greater responsibilities at the end of the program.
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The acquisition of former GE Water, a gamechanger for SUEZ with its potential for growth acceleration. The smart-city contract with Dijon Metropole in France to build and maintain for 12 years a connected control center for the public facilities of 24 municipalities in the metropolitan area. This is the first time in France that a local authority has developed on a project of this scale based on Open Data. In Belgrade, SUEZ won a 25-year Public-PrivatePartnership to develop a new municipal waste management system. This project will make it possible to close and remediate one of the largest landfills still active in Europe and generate over 80 MW of renewable heat and electricity with a 340,000-ton p.a. energy-from-waste plant. In France, a 10-year contract for the production and distribution of drinking water with the city of Sète in the form of a unified public-private partnership (in France, a Société d’économie mixte à opération unique, or “SEMOP”) The development of major industrial partnerships. A global MoU has been signed for a 3-year period with L’Oréal for the continuous improvement of environmental performance and the optimization of resource management throughout the Group’s value chain. In China, SUEZ NWS delivers its expertise to 11 of the main industrial parks, including the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP). The Group supplies water and effluent treatment for the petrochemical facilities of the park as well as the treatment and recovery of hazardous waste. We are proud to have supported the Paris bid to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games and engaged with all stakeholders, all sports and the project partners. Supporting industrial customers and local authorities to avoid more than 60 million tonnes of greenhouse gas by 2021 through dedicated circular economy solutions. SUEZ’s partnership with the UNESCO Oceanographic Commission and NGOs since 2015 to develop solutions to protect the oceans and coastlines from pollution.
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GoodWe: Acting Responsibly Towards The Entire Community and The Environment GoodWe is a leading, strategically-thinking enterprise which focuses on research and manufacturing of PV inverters plus battery storage solutions for residential, commercial and utility scale projects. With a total of 15 GW installations in more than 100 countries, latest data from IHS Markit PV Inverter Market Tracker 2018 has confirmed GoodWe’s position as the global top ten inverter manufacturer and top 5 in Asia by shipments with a sales volume of 350,000 units and $200 million revenue in the last year.
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GoodWe was established in 2010 and our first PV inverter was launched the next year when the competition in the industry was very
fierce. However, in 2012 the EU imposed antidumping and countervailing duties to Chinese photovoltaic products, which was a severe blow to the industry. As a newly established company, GoodWe had to struggle to expand its business with a clear focus on product R&D while building up local sales channels and after-sales service systems in Europe and Australia. Our belief was, and still is, to focus on quality and innovation to achieve competitiveness and highest customer value. Tariff decrease is also an inevitable trend around the world. Due to the reduction of solar feed-in tariffs by many governments and electricity network operators, grid-feed solar systems have become less economical.
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GoodWe became the first Chinese manufacturer to develop a hybrid inverter series with uninterrupted power supply and backup power in 2014. Throughout the years, GoodWe has set up an integrated service system to cover the entire sales process and has already established service centers in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Turkey, Australia and India. GoodWe’s qualified service network team is available at all times to provide local technical support whenever and wherever required. A professional team of authorized engineers can perform onsite inspections, testing and debugging and providing repair or replacement if necessary, using the latest techniques to maximize inverter performance while minimizing production or process downtime. In addition, we have developed a new concept of workshops which aim to offer global support to all our customers including project consulting, technical training, on-site support and aftersales service. GoodWe Solar Academy (GSA) provides expertise and professional customer training sessions on inverter products and PV solutions for installers, system designers and technical sales.
Therefore, we focus on how to provide customers with competitive PV systems through technology innovation and solution optimization, so that they can gain from rapidly fallen tariffs. Quality is paramount in our business. From our Quality Management System utilized in our supply chain process, to the superior products achieved from the proprietary technology applied in our material processing, to our inhouse material testing laboratories, to our dedicated personnel and their interaction with our clients, quality is always evident. Only the highest quality components and raw materials – 90% of them supplied by Fortune 500 companies - are selected after rigorous incoming inspections and testing procedures. Thanks to our continuous efforts in R&D,
We believe that photovoltaic + energy storage is the main trend in the future. The residential energy storage solutions from GoodWe give customers control of their power, by giving them choice and flexibility over how they use the electricity grid. By storing excess power during off-peak hours, when electricity costs are at their lowest, clean energy can be enjoyed during peak times while benefitting from a reduction in monthly costs. In addition, the battery storage system provides critical back-up power during grid outages or blackouts. Global energy is undergoing significant changes; we are in the era of the combination of information technology and energy systems. GoodWe is no longer just a component manufacturer. We are committed to building a comprehensive Smart Energy Management System to manage the production, usage and scheduling of energy in order to realize real-time monitoring, analysis and optimization while supporting free trade of distributed energy.
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About The CEO Mr. Huang Min
Born in July 1973, EMBA Master from Renmin University of China In 2001, he resigned from the French petrochemical company Total and moved to the city of Suzhou to pursue his dreams with less than a hundred thousand Yuan available. First, he established a company engaged in the construction materials supply business. Because of the rapid growth of the real estate industry, the company became a leading firm in the city and generated a lot of profit. However, this was not the career that would satisfy him. He craved something else, more valuable and meaningful. He strongly believes that it is their responsibility to provide a more sustainable future for the new generations to come. The enterprise is the basic unit that constitutes the society. The purpose and final goal of the enterprise should just not focus on maximizing profits at all costs, but also act responsibly towards the entire community and the environment.
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Top 10 Iconic Projects Shanxi, China - 25MW Ankara, Turkey – 18MW Istanbul, Turkey – 16MW Rotterdam, Holland – 12MW De Munt Emmeloord, Holland – 11MW Woldjerspoor, Holland – 10MW Nigde, Turkey – 8MW Griene Greide Garyp, Holland – 6MW Adiyaman, Turkey – 6MW Istanbul, Turkey – 6MW
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中利集团激荡三十年：从5000块到500强 30 years’ Turbulence for Zhongli Group, a top 500 company built on RMB5000 In 1988, China was awakened, its ancient glories and mighty power overshadowed by dust. Roaring and struggling, this exhausted sleeping lion remained vibrant and persevered, having seen much of the changes in human life.
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1988 is the beginning of the first ten years of China’s opening and reform. This year saw Wang baixing, with RMB 5000 out of his own pocket, establish Tangshi cable factory in Changshu city, Jiangsu province.30 years of continuous innovation and upgrading helped charted Zhongli’s business map covering five high-end manufacturing industries, namely, special wire/cable and fiber optic cable, new energy PV industrial chain, new polymer material, military electronics and titanium 3D metallic printing. Zhongli Sci-Tech Group (herein referred to as Zhongli) had grown up to be a national key high-tech group, a top 500 private company in China and a top ten independent innovation enterprise.
1988 年的中国，雄狮觉醒，灰尘已湮没了它的光 芒和那曾经的威武。它尽力咆哮着，拖着沉重而 疲惫的身体，但始终不变的，是那双看遍五千年 历史、饱经沧桑的双眸，以及那依然火热而跳动 的心脏。 1988年，中国改革开放的第一个10年。王柏兴自 掏五千元人民币创建了常熟市唐市电缆厂，历经 三十年的不断创新与转型升级后，慢慢构建了涵 盖特种电线电缆、光纤光缆系列，新能源光伏产 业链系列，高分子新材料系列，军工电子，钛金 属3D打印高端制造五大类产业领域的中利商业版 图，成为国家级重点高新技术集团企业，中国民 营企业500强和自主创新十强企业。 中利过往每一次飞跃都与产品创新有密切关系。 1994年阻燃软电缆的研制成功，为中利带来了第 一次腾飞，新品当年实现销售1000万元。1996年 再度开发的防火低烟无卤软电缆，填补了国内空 白，获得15项国家发明专利，成为打入市场的重 拳，占据当时中国国内70%的市场。
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Every leaping forward was closely related to product innovation. In 1994, Zhongli’s first take-off came with the successful development of flame-retardant flexible cable, the sales of which reached 10 million yuan that year. Fire-resistant, low-smoke and halogen-free flexible cable re-developed in 1996 filled the domestic gaps and obtained 15 national invention patents. This market hit held 70% of China’s domestic market share. Since then, Zhongli had successively launched new products such as communication optical cable, special flexible optical cable, digital internal shielding photoelectric cable for railway, new polymer material, automobile airbag and magnesium alloy parts, obtaining 23 national patents and 6 invention patents in total. Wang Baixing once commented that continuously developing new products to tailor to the special industrial needs is the key to Zhongli’s achievements today. From an A-share market beginner to an innovation PV leader Since its birth, it took Wang Baixing 21 years to land Zhongli in A share market in 2009, while it took Zhongli only 8 years to rise to an industrial lead from a beginner in PV industry. Capital and industrial momentum are the key driving forces shaping Wang’s business empire. In 2010, Zhongli founded Jiangsu Talesun Power Technology Company (later renamed Suzhou Talesun Solar Technology Company) to officially start expansion into PV industry. Having operated for just less than half a year, Zhongli encountered the down times in PV industry when overcapacity resulted in price slump. At that time, global PV manufacturing was running under deficit in a whole.
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Wang Baixing did not retreat despite the fast declining. He was a firm believer in the future of PV industry amid China’s significant progress. While generally not considered a wise choice then, he took immediate action to build PV power plants in western regions, topping 700MW in 2012. By 2014, Zhongli had already developed over 2GW capacities when the rush for PV power plants just began.
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此后，中利集团相继开发了通信光缆和特种软光 缆系列、铁路数字内屏蔽光电综合缆系列、高分 子新材料系列、汽车安全气囊和镁合金零部件系 列等新产品，共获23项国家专利和6大项发明专 利。 王柏兴曾说，中利之所以能取得今天的成就，其 中最关键的一点在于：适应行业特殊需求，不断 开发新颖产品。 从A股新秀到光伏行业创新引领者 从公司创立到2009年登陆A股，王柏兴用了21 年；从A股新秀到光伏行业创新引领者，王柏兴 仅用了8年时间，其商业帝国的崛起，离不开资本 与产业的双轮驱动。 2010年，中利集团投资设立“ 江苏腾晖电力科 技有限公司”（后改名为“ 苏州腾晖光伏技术有 限公司”），正式进军光伏行业。然而，刚投产 不到半年的中利就遇到了光伏行业发展低谷。由 于产能过剩，产品出现跳楼式降价，全球光伏制 造业几乎都处于亏损状态。 面对行业寒潮，王柏兴没有退缩，他坚定地认为 光伏产业在国家大发展的背景下会有一番作为， 在外人不看好的情况下，他果断在西部投建光伏 电站，2012年就做到了700余MW。在2014年行 业一窝蜂开始抢做光伏电站时，中利已经开发了 超2GW电站项目。 此后两年间，大型地面电站在中国西部被大规模 建设，然而在迅速发展的同时也暴露出一些问 题，由于受限电、土地、消纳等因素影响，西部 电站受到相关政策的限制，很多光伏公司因此出 现资金短缺等财务问题。
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In the following two years, large ground power plants were built on a large scale in western China with their own problems. As western region plants are restricted by relevant policies in load curtailment, land acquisition and power consumption, many PV companies are inflicted with financial problems, such as shortage of funds.
彼时王柏兴已带领中利团队抽身出来向“ 光伏 +” 应用模式转型，并积极响应国家相关扶贫政 策的号召，探索光伏扶贫模式的创新应用。由于 掌门人王柏兴敏锐的市场嗅觉与独特的判断力， 中利平稳度过了2012年光伏寒潮及后来的西部电 站危机。
At that time, Wang Baixing had already led Zhongli out in its transition to “Photovoltaic+” schema. In response to the national call for eliminating poverty, he actively explored innovative ways of PV poverty alleviation. Wang baixing’s keen market sense and unique judgment tided Zhongli over the PV depression in 2012 and the subsequent western power plant crisis.
对“ 光伏+” 的探索，让王柏兴找到了新的价 值所在，他带领中利集团投身于光伏扶贫事业， 从之前的投资开发建设商业电站的重资产模式转 向了光伏扶贫的轻资产EPC总包模式。
PV poverty alleviation makes a more brilliant career Probing into “Photovoltaic+” schema enabled Wang Baixing to discover his new interests. Under his guidance, Zhongli devoted itself to PV poverty alleviation, shifting its focus from capital-centered commercial power plants to light asset EPC contracting for poverty reduction.
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From 2015 to 2017, Zhongli pioneered the launch of new third generation agricultural PV poverty alleviation programs: the first generation being “Smart PV + Technological agriculture”；the second being “Poverty stricken village PV farm” and the third one is “Family sunshine farm” . Born in the countryside, Wang Baixing is attached to the land. He invested heavily in research and development to tap the potential of land. In these agricultural PV projects, Wang Baixing took innovative moves to lift the module mount to over 4 meters above ground and expand the space between PV module supports to more than 10 meters. Single panel installation, tilt adjustments and similar measures enabled penetration rates to reach more than 70% beneath the module where rice, wheat and other food crops can be mechanically cultivated. It was an exemplary approach to mechanized PV agriculture.
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2015-2017年，中利开创性地推出了三代全新模 式的农业光伏扶贫项目：第一代“ 智能光伏+科 技农业 、第二代” 贫困村光伏农场 、第三 代“家庭阳光农场” 。
农村出身的王柏兴对土地有一种特殊的情感，为 了使土地得到充分运用，不惜每年投入大量资金 进行技术研发。在开发农业光伏项目过程中，王 柏兴创新性地把组件架设高度抬高到4米以上，光 伏支架桩距跨度拓宽到10米，并通过组件单板安 装、调整组件倾斜度等技术使得组件板下面的太 阳光照率达到70%以上，成功实现了水稻、小麦 等粮食作物在组件下的机械化耕种，开启了光伏 农业机械化的先河。
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From then on Zhongli had furthered its efforts in PV poverty alleviation. In the past few years, Zhongli built 370MW first generation “Smart PV + technological agriculture” demonstration bases in Qinghai, Ningxia, Shandong and Jiangsu provinces, lifting more than 13,000 poor families in over twenty impoverished villages out of poverty. The second generation “Poverty-stricken village PV farm” poverty alleviation program had helped 43 poverty-stricken counties across the country to shake off poverty, benefitting over 440,000 people. Zhongli received numerous awards as a result, including Global Top 500 New Energy Innovation Enterprises, China Energy Industry Poverty Alleviation Innovation Award, China Energy Enterprise Innovation Responsibility Award and China Energy Project Innovation Award. When asked why he dedicated himself to PV poverty alleviation, Wang baoxing’s reply was always as follows. I am a son of my mother, and also of the peasant.” Being a child, he barely survived for lack of food. At that time, there were no poverty alleviation programs in place. He did hope that someone could come to their rescue, even if only with a few pounds of rice. When he grew up to be a capable entrepreneur, Wang Baixing lived up to his initial commitments, the very incentive prompting Zhongli to actively participate in PV poverty alleviation. PV poverty alleviation program had become a new way for poverty alleviation in rural China, being listed as one of the top ten poverty alleviation programs by the State Council Office for Poverty Alleviation. Wang Baixing predicted that PV poverty alleviation would remain to be a promising sector in the next three years. Zhongli planned to build “Poverty stricken village PV farm” for 300 impoverished counties and more than 25,000 poor villages by the end of 2019, benefiting a total of over 3 million people. Wang Baixing was beginning a new round of strategic planning for the third ten years now. Being a newcomer in the new energy vehicles and power batteries sector, Zhongli announced its plan in February this year to acquire shares worth around 10 billion yuan from Shenzhen BAK Battery limited company. As the crucial components of new energy vehicle, power batteries have very promising market prospects.
此后中利持续在光伏扶贫领域发力，过去 几年间，中利在青海、宁夏、山东、江苏 等地建设了370MW第一代“ 智能光伏+ 科技农业” 的农业光伏示范基地，帮助了 20多个贫困村1.3万多户贫困家庭脱贫，第 二代“ 贫困村光伏农场” 扶贫项目更 是帮助全国43个贫困县实现了脱贫致富， 助力脱贫人口达到44万。中利集团先后获 得全球新能源500强科技创新企业、中国 能源产业扶贫模式创新奖、中国能源企业 创新责任奖、中国能源项目创新奖等多项 殊荣。 曾有人问王柏兴为什么做光伏扶贫？ “我是我妈的儿子，但也是农民的儿子” ，是王柏兴经常挂在嘴边的一句话，小时 候因为没有东西吃差一点就活不过来。当 时没有扶贫，很希望能有人去帮他们，哪 怕只是几斤大米。当有能力可以帮助别人 的时候，王柏兴一直没忘本，这也成为中 利积极开展光伏扶贫业务的初衷。 光伏扶贫已成为中国农村脱贫致富的新路 径，被国务院扶贫办确立为十大精准扶贫 工程之一。王柏兴判断未来三年内，光伏 扶贫还将大有可为，中利集团计划在2019 年底，为300个贫困县、2.5万个以上贫困 村建设“ 贫困村光伏农场””，累计脱贫 人口300万以上。 站在30年的发展节点上，王柏兴开始了新 一轮的战略布局，今年2月中利发布公告称 拟约100亿元收购深圳比克动力电池有限公 司股份，正式介入新能源汽车和动力电池 领域。作为新能源汽车的核心板块，具有 十分可观的市场前景。
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Driving the Energy Revolution at Emrill Stuart Harrison, technical director of multi-award winning facilities management company, Emrill discusses how building energy efficiencies and sustainability solutions help the environment and improve the bottom line. Theodore Roosevelt once said, “To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.� These words are as true today as they were back then, and as an Engineer and in my role as technical director of Emrill - the UAE’s multiaward winning integrated facilities management company - I feel we are in a position to make a big difference in sustainability matters by developing and implementing effective energy conservation solutions in the built environment.
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Succeeding in a Challenging Market At Emrill, we consider ourselves to be masters of the built environment. The foundations of our business were built around a traditional facilities management core offering, including technical services, MEP services, security and housekeeping, however, our industry is dynamic and constantly changing which means we have had to adapt as a business and not only embrace change, but lead it from the front. Energy conservation and building efficiency are not new concepts, but they are certainly major challenges faced by businesses in the 21st century. With technology changing at such a rapid pace, there have never been more opportunities to be smarter with our resources. Emrill has always been at the forefront of technology in facilities management, and this inspired us to develop an energy solution to help our clients – building owners and managers – to achieve new levels of energy efficiency.
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As five times winner of ‘Overall FM Company
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Of The Year’, we’re understandably proud of our capability and success, but, as technical director of Emrill, I know we can’t rest on our laurels. My vision for the future is a time when we see fully integrated systems across most of the built environment. That time is almost upon us. Dynamic integrated systems by definition will integrate all traditional and digital concepts, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), the “Web of Things”, and Blockchain-type technology. Emrill is currently running trials on applications that will take us into the next generation of capability in the region, which means that instead of ‘smart’ buildings we will be creating ‘interactive’ buildings that are able to learn from the environment and the user comfort-points. As artificial intelligence grows we will be able to implement user recognition capability and environment control that will enable the building to self-adapt based on what it has learned, rather than wait for instruction. We expect to start rolling this technology out soon. The future for Emrill promises to be exciting, and we are always eager to push the boundaries of dynamic technology to keep us right at the forefront of the energy revolution.
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Renewable Projects Emrill was at the forefront of the energy revolution in the Middle East with an awardwinning project in the UAE. We ran a pilot project, known as an Energy Performance Contract (EPC), which was the first of its kind in Dubai. We designed, financed and installed the whole project as a turnkey solution. Electricity cost savings of over 26 per cent were achieved in the first year, which equated to an annual saving of Dh3.5 million. What we learned from this pilot project enabled us to replicate it in other buildings, and we now have over four years’ experience and data to draw from, which is mostly used for modelling and planning purposes. Furthermore, the CO2 reduction on the Dubai pilot project in the first year alone was equivalent to a motorcar driving over one hundred million kilometres, helping Emrill to achieve its own sustainability goals while being good for the planet.
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The technology and applications we use on building energy efficiency projects are based
on sound engineering principles, and we never over-promise or gamble with results. We start the process with a thorough review of the existing Building Management System, this is the central data point for technical systems and it’s the obvious place to look for opportunities. The rest of the process is a proprietary blend of hardware and software, balancing output and creating/harmonising control loop algorithms, which make the building more intelligent. Following a feasibility study of existing equipment and their respective operating modes, an Investment Grade Audit is completed. This demonstrates the level of reductions in net energy usage and costs that can be achieved through changes and improvements to Controls, Chillers, Air Handling Units, Heat Recovery Systems, and Building Management and Lighting Systems. The technical team at Emrill have become experts at analysing this data and developing bespoke and turnkey energy efficiency solutions that meet the needs of all stakeholders, and most importantly ensuring
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that we maintain comfort levels for residents or end-users.
Sustainability Extends to Water Conservation Due to its very arid climate, the UAE is one of most water-scarce countries in the world. Hence, the onus is on facilities management companies such as Emrill to reduce the usage of this precious resource in cleaning techniques and also to reduce unnecessary wastage in community water systems. Sustainability in the area of water conservation is at the forefront of Emrill’s strategy for the future and is a key objective for the company. About 20 per cent of the water used in the UAE and further afield is believed to be lost as a result of leakages in community water systems. We believe these losses are mostly avoidable, and are committed to reducing water leakages as much as possible. To achieve this in 2016 Emrill developed the ‘Emrill Community Water Leakage Reduction Programme’ and began testing it on a Dubai
villa master community. By 2017, irrigation leakages had been reduced by 70 per cent, sewerage overflows by over 50 per cent, and system failure rectification times had been cut to less than 24 hours. At the same time, client and residents both reported major improvements in the community’s lake water quality. To put this into everyday terms, the total volume of water saved when compared to the previous year was the equivalent of over 8,100 showers and represented a total cost saving of Dh500,000 to the client. To achieve these results, Emrill invested heavily into specialist technological equipment, including underground leak detection and CCTV equipment, enabling the rapid detection of root cause problems in the sewage network. I’m very proud of the Emrill technical team for its quick action and innovative solutions that achieved this result, which was acknowledged at a wider industry level by winning ‘Engineering Service Of The Year’ at the Facilities Management Middle East Awards 2018.
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Top 10 Projects of EMRILL • Dubai Opera House • Princess Tower: world’s tallest residential building • Dubai International Airport, Terminal 3 handling 45 million passengers annually • Dubai Downtown Master Community • World Trade Centre, Abu Dhabi • Arabian Ranches Master Community • The Beach at JBR, Dubai • Dubai Marina Master Community • La Mer beachfront lifestyle complex • The Springs Master Community
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Emrill is a multi-award winning integrated facilities management provider in the UAE. With nearly 8,000 directly employed staff, the company offers the full range of hard and soft FM, asset management and manned security services with innovative solutions tailored to support its clients, including cutting-edge energy solutions and real-time performance management systems. Emrill commands an
exceptionally high level of client retention and has enjoyed continuous growth since its formation. As industry leader, Emrill helps organisations shape environments and create great places to live, work and visit while achieving their commercial goals through providing a range of highly effective FM solutions. Sectors serviced include: residential, commercial, industrial and master communities, as well as industries as diverse as: aviation, healthcare, retail, hospitality, oil and gas, education and leisure. Emrill’s mission to be the region’s preferred facilities management partner is being achieved by providing quality services, ensuring safety and building trusted relationships based upon mutual values. Emrill strives for excellence through embracing innovation and empowering its people to be their best through a strong commitment to education and development and employee welfare. Awarded the title of Overall FM Company of the Year for a fifth time at the Facilities Management Middle East Awards 2018, Emrill was also awarded Security Company
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of the Year in 2015. Sustainability is at the core of Emrill’s business strategy, recognised through winning the Engineering Service of the Year award in both 2017 and 2018 for its Energy Performance Contract (EPC) and community water conservation programmes. Building on this success, Emrill won the Top Cleaning Company of the Year and Excellence in Training awards at the inaugural Middle East Cleaning, Hygiene and Facilities Awards in 2018, as well as Best Client/ Contractor Partnership award attesting to its track record of quality service delivery and client satisfaction. As the first FM Company to be awarded the Dubai Chamber CSR Label for its sustainable and responsible corporate practices, the company has now held this title for six consecutive years. Operating to the highest International standards, Emrill is ISO9001:2015, ISO14001:2015, OHSAS 18001:2007, NICEIC and BICSc accredited. Clients are fully supported through modern IT infrastructure, dedicated client managers and a 24-hour
call centre and also benefit from the newest technology, industry-leading techniques and latest equipment releases consistently delivered through Emrill’s ongoing Innovation and Digital Transformation Programme. To learn more, please visit www.emrill.com
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Stuart Harrison Biography Early Career I’m originally from the Midlands in the UK and after completing my engineering studies I started my career as an electrical engineer. My father is an engineer and as a youngster I sometimes spent time with him at work during my summer holidays. I found his job so fascinating that it seemed only natural I would follow his footsteps and pursue a career in engineering. so I made the decision to specialise in electrical engineering and set about securing my first job. I consider myself incredibly lucky to have had such a great start to my career. The early years saw me working for a major contractor on a mix of private and government contracts, such as UK hospitals and major developments. These projects exposed me to engineering challenges on a worldwide scale. The learning curve was steep and I often had to think on my feet, this gave me a great foundation and understanding of all types technical challenges.
Commitment to Continuous Development According to Warren Buffett: If you’re not spending five hours per week learning, you’re being irresponsible. I tend to agree with this philosophy and live by it as much as possible. I’ve always been ambitious and keen to learn, so once I had some experience in different types of engineering I started to look further afield and had the opportunity to work all over the UK. This then led to work across Europe, the USA and the Middle East. The great thing about engineering is you never stop learning. The roles I have taken in my career have seen me managing everything from critical hospital infrastructure to Oil & Gas fields. I’ve also constantly upskilled myself by completing mechanical qualifications along the way, so I’m just as comfortable with HVAC systems as I am with electrical projects.
Focusing on People Management Skills As my career has progressed into senior leadership roles, people management has become a significant part of my job. I have found this aspect hugely enjoyable, which led me to complete an MSc in Management and become a qualified Chartered Manager. I truly believe that every day is an opportunity to learn something new.
Company Beginnings and Past Achievements Since its establishment in 2002, Emrill has become the Middle East’s leading provider of Facilities Management services with nearly 8,000 staff. From the very beginning, growth came quickly, and Emrill has succeeded in delivering services to some of the most innovative and prestigious projects in the region. Through Emrill’s commitment to the ensuring outstanding levels of customer service, the company has won numerous awards. Notably, Emrill was named 2018’s Overall FM Company of the Year, the most prestigious title presented at the Facilities Management Middle East awards. This marked the fifth time Emrill has won the coveted title. Emrill secured a further two awards, namely Engineering Service of the Year award for its efforts in better managing a master community. The Young Facilities Manager of the Year award was also presented to one of the Emrill team. In addition to Emrill’s commitment to its clients, the company places great important on its people. In 2017 alone, Emrill has trained over 6,213 staff, which totalled 134,667 training manhours, an increase of 4.87 per cent. A priority for every member of the company is the promotion of safe work practices, and this is an area that receives continuous investment and on-going OEM training. I am proud to work at a company that continues to be named as an industry leader and its pursuit of excellence was a major factor in my joining the company.
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Making our Planet Sustainable and Energy Efficient H
UMBLE BEGINNINGS I started UGE about ten years ago,
and in that time we have seen many ups and downs as all companies do. What I am most proud of is the amazing projects we’ve completed and/or been a part of. Most recently those
are taking the form of community
Field (home of the Philadelphia Eagles)
solar projects in markets such as New
that we are particularly proud about.
York City, commercial solar PPAs in markets such as New Jersey, as well as being one of the mots active commercial developers in the Philippines. Over the course of our history I think of projects with the Eiffel Tower and Lincoln Financial
Throughout our history we’ve had to continually adapt as the pace of change in this industry has been incredible. That has meant tremendous growth at times – most recently in 2017. At other times it has
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About the CEO, Nick Blitterswyk am from western Canada, a small town called Duncan. Growing up my parents were the caretakers of a “provincial park”, really a nature reserve in the rain forest that exists in that part of Canada. My parents were very into sustainability, and it was something I took with me as I got older.
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sustainable energy and a more sustainable way of life. Since then we’ve preached our core values, “Be Green, Be Great, Have Fun”. I believe that fits the description of my leadership style quite well: I am an optimistic, happy-go-lucky type of leader who leads by example and wants nothing less than for each member of the UGE team to be upbeat and excited about the challenges we are tackling. I have an amazing wife who is very supportive of all of the ups and downs we face.
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meant selling or downsizing parts
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leadership, but other provinces are
of the business as factors shift our
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starting to pick up. The US has a lot
expectations. What we are today – a very focused commercial solar company – wouldn’t have been visible when we first started the company, but we’ve gotten here by employing so many great people who have continued to spot interesting opportunities and pull the company in that direction.
INNOVATIONS. Recently we have been particularly active in all three of our main focus markets, that being Canada, the US, and the Philippines. All three countries have dynamic commercial solar markets; Canada is seeing a pullback in Ontario based on new political
going on, and we are particularly excited about the community solar space. And the Philippines is a newer market, but one where we have carved out a very strong position with some key clients and have built a great local team there. Recently we issued our first
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green bond which will help us accel-
how the new norm of very cheap solar
erate our growth across all markets by
is widening what we can do in this
widening our pool of project capital.
space – we see a future where solar is
We’re one of the first companies to
ubiquitous for businesses and govern-
take this approach and we’re very
ments alike, all around the world.
excited for what it will mean for us in future. On the technology side, we remain excited about what is happening in battery storage and have a solar
WHAT ARE UGE’S FUTURE GOALS? The commercial solar space is
+ storage portfolio in the works in
still in its infancy; we estimate that
New York City. We’re also excited for
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vide engineering assistance
most focus on growth in our
in several additional markets.
current markets, but we are al-
We expect that to lead us
ways looking to expand beyond
towards several additional
those borders, as well.
opportunities, bringing our
Our engineering subsidiary has become a great channel for us to lead that charge; recently we’ve leveraged our 370MW of experience to pro-
financed commercial solar approach to new clients, saving clients money on energy, while allowing them to go green, as well.
TOP 10 ICONIC PROJECTS 1. In Toronto, we have installed solar on the hockey rink of Upper Canada College, arguably the pre-eminent private school in the country; there couldn’t be anything more Canadian than that. 2. In Calgary, we installed Canada’s largest solar carport for the local Audi dealership; not only do the carports look great and provide affordable, clean energy to the dealership, they also provide enhanced protection to the cars parked underneath. 3. In Cebu, Philippines, we’ve installed one of the countries largest commercial solar installations, a 1,265kW project for Nature’s Spring, the country’s leading bottled water company. It’s one of three projects we’ve installed for the company thus far. 4. In New York City, we were selected to provide solar + storage to 17 small businesses that were affected by Hurricane Sandy, so that the businesses would have enhanced resiliency should such a storm strike New York City again. 5. In Minnesota, UGE has completed the state’s largest school project, at over 1MW, providing clean, affordable energy to the community. 6. In Brooklyn, UGE completed a commercial PPA project for Christian Cultural Center, a “mega-church” that is the largest in the NE USA. 7. In Queens, UGE developed New York City’s first community solar project, providing the building owner with an additional source of income by leveraging their roof to install solar and provide the energy to the community. 8. In Philadelphia, UGE was one of the companies involved in an iconic renewable energy installation that includes carport and building-integrated solar, as well as a wind energy installation, for Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles. 9. In Paris, France, UGE worked with the Eiffel Tower to construct a renewable energy installation within the steel structure to power the restaurant within the tower. 10. In Panama, UGE developed a 20+ site project equating to more than 4MW for the country’s leading hardware chain.
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Top-tier companies do not stop moving forward after securing a spot on the Forbes list—they are consistently devoting their time and energy innovating on projects that will not only matter for a particular time but will inspire generations to come. Small steps will surely make a difference once pieced together, how much more if the move for renewable energy starts with the biggest business giants?
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o run totally on renewable energy is a vision where Jeff Bezos, CEO of the largest online market Amazon, is heavily investing. Well, not just investing. They are actually head-to-head with Google for the green throne. But why do companies like Amazon spend millions of dollars to build on projects that run on wind movements or light up through sun rays?
Green Energy As A Social Responsibility As a response to the threats of the 2℃ possible increase in the world’s temperature, global leaders are urging every nation, every company, and organization to take actions. If asked, who has the power to influence and make a larger change? Of course, corporations like Amazons who are on top of the food chain. And for as long as industries know too
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Just last year, Bezos has also announced that well that they are one of the largest emitters of carbon, they should also be the ones pouring more attention. Renewable energy is more than just a banner to attract planet-conscious people to buy products and receive applause. It is a responsibility and Bezos has seen it as an issue that his company should take seriously. As an answer to the crisis, he has built mega projects like the 813,000 square-foot-
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sized installations which can power a thousand homes in Las Vegas last May. This is a part of Amazon’s ambitious plan to fulfill 50 solar arrays by 2020. Just last year, Bezos has also announced that Amazon Wind Farm Texas is operational and able to produce over 1 million megawatt hours (MWh) of clean energy to the grid annually built by Lincoln Clean Energy. The wind farm has over 100 turbines
Amazon Wind Farm Texas is operational and able to produce over 1 million megawatt hours (MWh) of clean energy to the grid
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each standing more than 300-feet tall and with a rotor diameter over double the wingspan of Boeing 787 making it the biggest wind farm in Synder, Texas. Beyond increasing revenue, companies like Amazon have seen the opportunity to make a positive impact to communities—improved utilities generate jobs and lessen the carbon footprint of power sources. Today, the US is now one of the largest countries investing in renewable energy sources as more companies like Amazon are taking it not just a priority but also a social responsibility. Bezos is currently part of the team comprised of the world’s best executives who founded Breakthrough
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Energy Ventures (BEV) with a goal to “make sure that everyone on the planet can enjoy a good standard of living, including basic electricity, healthy food, comfortable buildings, and convenient transportation, without contributing to climate change.�
Sustainable energy for every community in the US is a dream for
Keeping The Commitment Amidst Risks Investment on renewable energy has captured the heart of Bezos even though this venture can be pricey and definitely require a massive capital outlay and takes a long-run return of investment. Bezos is willing to take the risk and wait. Moreover, this renewable power plant has displayed a massive
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potential for opening new waves of jobs in the US. While more businesses are popping up in this technological era, clean-energy developers are really finding new doors and opportunities towards the development and sustainability of wind and solar power plants. As a matter of fact, International Energy Agency confirmed that global investment in wind and solar are now outpacing investment in fossil fuels. It boils down with the fact that producing wind and solar power costs are now
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declining. Going back to Bezos, imagine how he has been hooked and how he is full of determination to reach their longterm goal to power their own energy consumption and global infrastructure using 100 percent renewable energy, they are now able to power about 350,000 homes. Rooftop solar panels are one of the ways Amazon is looking to utilize renewable energy while for wind turbines, the CEO allotted to break bottles of champagne so it can be used to power massive cloud computing
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service. Sustainable energy for every community in the US is a dream for Amazon and they are obviously taking a lot of actions to make that a reality. To this day, Amazon continues on executing impressive efforts. Bezos is inspired to do more and step on towards a greener environment. As they get their green light on, they are up for something greater than any company is trying to build and plant. Their determination has reached a certain goal for renewable energy sources. Bezos and his biggest achievement on making not just the Amazon empire but more importantly creating a game changer plan for the benefit of a better world has seen hope—the hope to inspire more companies to take the risk and do their part and help create a world that completely powered by renewable energy.
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