Germany Wind Energy Developer CUBE Engineeering Opens American Subsidary in California:Green Jobs
CUBE Engineering GmbH, based in Kassel, has founded CUBE Engineering America LLC in Palo Alto, California, to serve the burgeoning North American market. The subsidiary will be headed up by CUBE co-founder Jörg Beland, and, drawing from German expertise and many years of experience, will offer services in all areas of wind farm projects in line with local re-quirements. This is more good news for job seekers looking to find green employment in the North American Wind Industry.
CUBE Engineering GmbH is an international engineering and consulting firm located in Kassel, Germany, which has been offering its services as an expert in the wind energy sector since 1991. Having been involved in the planning of more than 2,700 wind energy projects around the world to date, CUBE with its staff of 40 at the offices in Kassel (head office), Hamburg, Husum, Edinburgh (UK) and Bucharest (Romania) is one of the largest independent specialists in the industry. CUBE’s services as an independent wind resource assessor, a project manager of wind farm projects (including greenfield) and as an owner’s or investor’s engineer are called on for the sale and implementation of projects.
As of August 1, 2009, CUBE will have a permanent office in the USA. This move by the management comes in response to the sharp increase in demand in the American market. “Until quite re-cently the American market was very volatile and contingent on short-term political support schemes,” says Jörg Beland, one of the two founders and executives of CUBE, who will be in charge of building up CUBE Engineering America LLC in America. “Based on developments in the past year and the measures introduced by the new Obama administration at the beginning of 2009, we can expect a very stable period of rapid development in the coming years. We aim to be actively involved.”
CUBE has been involved in US projects in the past, including the development of the 135 MW Judith Gap Wind Farm in Montana, which received an award from the National Renewable Energy Labora-tory (NREL). CUBE is thus hoping that its new office will also attract commissions from German project developers and builders of wind turbines wishing to enter the North American market in this new, sustainable environment.
The opening of the new office has meant a reshuffle in the upper echelons of CUBE.
“The assignment of responsibility by sector has given way to a market-led approach,” says Stefan Chun. The head office in Kassel saw the increasing importance of the US market as an opportunity to start up with a partner “who learned the wind energy business from the bottom up,” Mr. Chun goes on to say.
Jörg Beland will leave the management of CUBE Engineering GmbH to concentrate solely on building up and managing the new CUBE Engineering America LLC. Stefan Chun will oversee and expand the core business in Europe along with the new markets in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and also North Africa together with the Mediterranean countries and the Arab world.
The head office in Kassel will remain the port of call for far-flung places in the world and new markets. The CUBE office in Husum will close its doors in the summer. As of August 1, CUBE’s project management and planning business will be located in Germany’s emerging wind-energy hub at Hamburg on the River Elbe under the management of Susanne Siefert.
This step marks CUBE’s second significant strategic milestone this year, after CUBE ENERGY S.R.L. was founded in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, earlier this year. The Romanian subsidiary is the contractual partner of the Czech energy supplier CEZ, and, in the role of owner’s engineer, is engaged in building a 600 MW wind farm, currently the largest in Europe.
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Posted by Gordon Smith
on Jun 24 2009. Filed under Green Career, Sustainable Development, Wind Energy Companies.
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