AHK Geschäftsreise Windenergie Südafrika 15.-19. Oktober 2012

Summary of Participating Companies

Corporate Energies GmbH & Co KG

www.corporate-energies.com

Company profile:

Corporate Energies are strictly oriented along the common renewable energy supply chain. They correspond to the specific steps necessary for the completion and satisfying operation of your wind energy assets.

Services/Products:

Project Development

Finance

Construction

Operation

Training

Target Groups in SA:

Project developers and operators in the wind energy sector. Companies that are in the production of wind energy plants and facilities and that are planning or extending their activities and are interested in strategic services and know-how.

Aim of visit:

To make contacts with developers and operators in the wind energy sector.

Lucas –Nülle GmbH

www.lucas-nuelle.com

Company profile: For 30 years the Lucas-Nülle company has stood for the development, manufacture and marketing of high-quality, state-of-the-art training systems for further and advanced technical and vocational education. Lucas-Nülle has developed the appropriate training systems needed to cope with the ever more complex world of training and education in the renewable energy sector.

Services/Products: Lucas-Nulle develops and produces sophisticated high-quality training systems that amongst others cover the areas of Electrical power supply technology and renewable energies.

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Target Group: Co-operation/joint venture/distribution partners. Energy Suppliers with own training facilities, co-operation partners with contacts within Universities and Training facilities in the renewable sector

Aim of visit: Market research, new contacts with potential distribution and/or joint venture partners in the training and skills development sectors for RE.

SEAR GmbH

www.sear-gmbh.de

Company profile: SEAR GmbH serves customers in the energy industry that produce, transport and distribute electricity with energy technologies. SEAR installs high voltage and low voltage systems cut out to suit the customer’s respective needs for the on-shore and off-shore wind parks. In addition to that, they supply automation systems, communication technology and video technology as well as safety technologies.

Services/Products: SEAR constructs transformer stations of a capacity up to 400 kV for the distribution of (wind) energy in the on-shore and off-shore areas. They are in the position to supply the larger components such as switchgears when the general conditions are favourable. SEAR offers complete project management.

Target Group: ESKOM, NERSA, DoE, Regional Utility Services (Energy) also on Provincial Level.

Aim of visit: Market research, market development information in the on-shore and off-shore sector, contacts with possible joint ventures.

Altran GmbH & Co KG

www.altran.com

Company profile:

As global leader in innovation and high‐tech engineering consulting, Altran accompanies its clients in the creation and development of their new products and services.

Altran has been providing services for around thirty years to key players in the Aerospace, Automotive, Energy, Railway, Finance, Healthcare and Telecoms sectors. Covering every stage of project development from strategic planning through to manufacturing, Altran’s offers capitalize on

the Group’s technological know‐how in four key areas: Product Lifecycle Management, Mechanical Engineering, Embedded and Critical Systems, and Information Systems.

An international group, Altran operates in over twenty countries throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. As a strategic partner, Altran offers its clients global project support while guaranteeing a consistent level of service. In order to offer specific support to dedicated local markets, Altran has chosen to keep a local dimension in order to better serve specific dedicated markets.

Services/Products:

Turnkey projects, engineering, site inspections, due diligence for on-shore and off-shore wind energy.

Target Group: -South African owned wind turbine production. South African (BEE) companies that are looking for investors in the wind energy sector. -Engineering companies that are interested in a possible co-operation. -Political sector – contact persons that are interested in bringing new technologies to SA and thereby creating jobs. -Finance Institutions.

Aim of visit: Co-operation /joint venture with South African owned (BEE) companies in the wind energy sector (wind turbines).

Offshore Industrie Service GmbH

www.offshore-industrie-service.de

Company profile: Using the engineering competences within the affiliated companies OIS manages development and supervision issues for planning, controlling and manufacturing of off-shore wind energy constructions. OIS is involved in diverse R&D-projects to optimize maintenance processes for offshore installations. OIS’s OMAS (Offshore Maintenance Access System) enables access to underneath areas, sides and support legs of an offshore platform up to the water line using an 31m arm system with a basket capacity of 350kg. OMAS is available as deck suspended system or as railway system installed underneath the platform.

Services/Products: Mechanical and electronic installations, repairs, corrosion protection and products/ systems for off-shore wind projects. Turnkey solutions.

Target Group: Contacts in the area of off-shore project in the RE sector.

Aim of visit: Information on future developments in the off-shore RE sector.

ME Systems GmbH

www.me-industries.de

Company profile: ME industries is a special type of High- Tech Organisation. ME stands for Mechanics and Electronics. The High-Tech-Organisation consists of the businesses ME Mayerhofer Electronics and ME Systems. ME Industries combines therefore most modern fabrication technologies with underpinned technical knowledge. Offering M2M (Machine-to-Machine-Communication) as well as CM (Condition Monitoring system, like HACCP). ME Industries is partner in design and technology of high-value. Its products partner in monitoring of machines and rooms. The company’s goal is to generate optimal solutions economically and physically.

Services/Products: GSM-based Machine-2-Machine Solutions. Data communication between single systems and a centralized Information platform for the optimization of processes, and resources. Conditions, for example (strength, temperature, energy achievement, vandalism, and how much energy is being produced) can all be measured and the results can be transmitted without Internet connection (over the mobile phone network) to the end user. The data then can be processed via a web surface.

Target Group: Customers for the M2M solutions Government representatives (ESKOM, NERSA, DoE) or on regional levels (City, Province). Wind Park operators, companies whose machinery/projects are far away from each other and outside any infrastructure development and who require constant updates and information that needs to be centralised.

Aim of visit: Contacts with possible customers for M2M solutions.