To support the developers and financiers of South Africa’s burgeoning wind power industry GL Garrad Hassan opened its first office in the Rainbow Nation, in Cape Town on 1 January 2012.
South Africa is ideally suited for renewable energy development, given its abundant wind and solar resources, ample number of suitable sites and modern high voltage electrical infrastructure. The opening of the new office will mean that GL Garrad Hassan can now offer its clients a local point of contact for its global network of experts. Dr Helmut Klug, Regional Manager Central Europe, Middle East and Africa of GL Garrad Hassan commented on this major step in GL Garrad Hassan’s ongoing worldwide expansion: “South Africa represents one of the most active regions in Africa for wind and solar developments and is notably the first country in the world where we are involved in as many solar as wind projects.
