Cornelius Matthes Managing Director

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Ever since opening its regional office in Dubai, Italian renewable energy developers Building Energy S.p.A have been expanding their footprint across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

With a pipeline of 1.2GW worldwide, the independent renewable power producer has developed and constructed Africa's largest PV park and has been qualified for new PV projects in the MENA region.

We catch up with Cornelius Matthes, Managing Director MENA at Building Energy, to learn more about the firms latest activity.

Q: BUILDING ENERGY HAS A SIZABLE PORTFOLIO OF OPERATIONAL PV PROJECTS WORLDWIDE. WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO THE MENA REGION?

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MENASOL 2015

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Matthes: Egypt is clearly our focus market; I think it will be a gigawatt market in 3 to 5 years for both solar PV and wind. The country has outstanding wind conditions and is home to Zafarana, Africa's largest wind farm, so we will be also looking at wind energy as it's part of our technology portfolio.

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