Heliocentris expands its presence in the Middle East
New branch office opening in Silicon Oasis, Dubai, will provide expert capabilities in green power solutions for the multitude of industrial and educational customers in the Middle East and North African Region
Berlin – 26 January 2012: Saving energy, reducing costs as well as minimizing environmental pollution and carbon footprint are key drivers in dynamic regions like the Golf Countries – especially in the telecommunications industry. Heliocentris develops, produces and markets energy efficiency and clean power solutions geared specifically to these needs.
“International demand is steadily rising thanks to the substantial benefits our product and service portfolio provides to customers with installations that are not connected to the electricity grid or operate in a bad grid environment, among them mobile operators, tower companies as well as governmental institutions and Oil & Gas companies." says Ayad Abul-Ella, CEO of Heliocentris and Managing Director of P21. "With the Middle East being one of our primer target regions and growth drivers, we now went a step further and established a regional headquarter in Dubai to provide our customers and partners a fast, best in class and end-to-end support in turnkey projects based on local resources and expertise" adds Ayad Abul-Ella.
The branch office of P21, a Heliocentris Company, is located in Silicon Oasis and started operations end of 2011 with local staff including Sales, Solution Engineering and Project Management. Silicon Oasis continues to be a leading hub for high-tech innovation and development. High ranking companies like Etisalat, du, Ericsson, Schneider, Fujitsu and other international technology companies as well as Institutes of Technology like Rochester are located in the neighborhood, so expanding to that location goes hand-in-hand with Heliocentris’ efforts to gain market share in those areas. "We believe this is an important step in the expansion of our relationships to existing and new business partners, and at the same time a further sign of our strong commitment to this region” says Michael Kutschenreuter, the General Manager of the Middle East Africa Business of Heliocentris/P21 and the Managing Director of the Dubai Branch.
"On top the broad client base in the region, the local operations is intended to also support the variety of opportunities enabled by our strategic shareholders from the region" says Ayad Abul-Ella. "With NTEC, the technology arm of the Kuwait Investment Authority KIA and Alcazar Capital Ltd. from Dubai, both closely attached to Heliocentris, the establishment of the local operations made even more sense to us" Ayad Abul-Ella concluded.
About Heliocentris Energy Solutions AG
Heliocentris specialises in autonomous energy supply and energy efficiency solutions with the aim of replacing diesel generators with “zero-emission” products. The company, which was founded in Berlin in 1995, develops and markets systems and turnkey solutions for customers in industry and science and has three business areas: Energy Efficiency, Clean Energy and Didactic. The “Energy Efficiency” area specialises in energy efficiency, monitoring and management solutions for autonomous energy supply solutions. With the existing solutions, diesel consumption in applications such as mobile phone network base stations can be reduced by up to 50%, while the cost of operating such facilities can be reduced by up to 70%. The solutions are being commercially rolled out in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The “Clean Energy” area focuses on “zero-emission” solutions for autonomous energy supply, including solutions for supplying electricity to off-grid applications such as monitoring stations, telecommunications facilities or self-sufficient houses. The core competency here is the efficient hybridisation of energy generators such as, solar and wind or even diesel generators with energy storage such as batteries and the own hydrogen fuel cell based storage solutions based on our scalable energy management solutions. Heliocentris has already successfully demonstrated its expertise in this area in numerous projects with renowned partners across the world. For over 10 years now, the “Didactic” area has been offering a range of learning and research systems for fuel cell and solar hydrogen technology and other regenerative energy technology. Customers include training centres, research institutes and industry. The comprehensive range of products and services makes Heliocentris one of the world’s leading companies in its field. With a subsidiary in Vancouver, offices in Dubai and Singapore and customers in more than 60 countries, Heliocentris is well positioned internationally. The Heliocentris Group currently has 90 employees. Further information is available at: www.heliocentris.com.
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