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Turkey offers excellent perspectives for solar companies

Category: Publications

Turkey's geographic location renders one of the world's highest solar irradiation and its population of 70 million makes Turkey one of the most populous countries in Europe. Its growing industrialized economy coupled with an increase in living standards has already put upward pressure on Turkey's energy demand.

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Apricum joins solar entrepreneur trip to Istanbul

Category: Events

From June 19 to 20, 2009 Apricum will join Berlin's Mayor, Klaus Wowereit, in an entrepreneurtrip of Berlin solar companies to Istanbul. Following the trip, Apricum´s Managing Partner Nikolai Dobrott and Apricum´s representative in Turkey Aygün Keser will meet with local companies and visit industrial production sites in order to explore and evaluate market entry opportunities and production investment conditions for solar manufacturers in Turkey. Additional meetings with Turkish cooperations are planned to discuss business and investment opportunities for Turkish companies in the solar industry.

You are also welcome to meet Nikolai Dobrott and Dr. Aygün Keser in Germany or Turkey. Please contact us at: info@apricum-group.com

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New experts in power supply and site selection

Category: Events

As of this month two new senior advisors in the US and in Germany have joined the Apricum team: Hanns-Joachim Garms brings his experience in the electric utitliy sector and his profound technology and infrastructure knowledge of the power supply industry to the Apricum network. Michael D. Bové adds his profound knowledge of planning, design and construction of highly complex technical facilities for scientific research and the Cleantech industry. His international network of decision makers in facility set up further strengthens Apricum's competence in site selection.

Hanns-Joachim Garms is an independent management consultant and joined Apricum in May 2009 as senior advisor. Until 2007 he was a member of the Executive Board of ENRO AG (today tse AG), a stock listed energy supply and service company focusing on renewable energies,  decentralized and captive energy supply. Prior to his involvement in ENRO Mister Garms worked for a IT consulting company, where he was responsible for the areas of product marketing and worldwide product sales.

Mister Garms is a mathematician and studied mathematics, physics and computer science at the universities of Darmstadt and Freiburg.

Michael D. Bové joins Apricum from being CEO of M+W Zander US Inc., where he led the US operations of the German based engineering specialist. M+W Zander - a market leading technology facilities design and construction company with a special focus in Photovoltaics and Renewable Energies - set up manufacturing and research facilities for world renowned producers and institutions in the US, Europe, the Middle East, Brazil, China and Singapore.

Before his tenure at M+W Zander, he was instrumental in the overseas expansion of Black & Veatch´s, as a semiconductor facility planner. As Senior Vice President at Knight Inc. he served as principal in charge for laboratory design projects for the US Department of Energy.

Michael D. Bové holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering (Power) with a Minor in Nuclear Engineering and Mathematics from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia and is a Registered Professional Engineer.

Apricum at the Grid Parity Solar Economics Forum

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From June 16 to 19, 2009 Apricum will attend the Grid Parity Solar Economics Forum in London. You are welcome to join our presentation titled: How to identify the best options to create a solar market and industry. To meet Apricum´s Managing Partner Nikolai Dobrott please contact us at info@apricum-group.com or +49 30 30 87 76 20.