German solar company opens Australian office

Solar project developer Wirsol, headquartered in Germany, has opened a new office in Sydney. The company’s entire Australian activities will now be coordinated from the office, which is more than 200 m² in size and just a few minutes’ walk from Manly Beach.

Development of the Australian branch office has been organised by Mark Hogan, managing director of Wirsol’s British subsidiary, Wirsol Energy Limited, and his team. Peter Vest, Wirsol’s managing director, expressed his satisfaction with the speed of development in Australia when attending the official inauguration of the new office.

“Thanks to its holdings, Wirsol is today already a leading project developer in sustainable energy on the Australian continent,” said Vest. “We would like to maintain and further expand this position in future.”

The news comes just a couple of months after Wirsol announced the founding of an Australian subsidiary and the construction of three solar farms in Queensland and Victoria with an investment volume of $380 million — the largest single investment in the development of solar energy in Australia to date. Further development of capacity for a total output in excess of 1 GWp by 2020 is also planned.

The first six employees have now moved into the new premises in the north of the city. The new team’s objectives are to realise planned solar farms and develop further potential projects.