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GICON®-Limited starts operations in the UK

GICON® Group strengthens its offshore services for the UK and Ireland

GICON^®-Limited is the newest corporate member of the GICON^® Group. In December 2020, the company opened its first office in Bristol in the Southwest of England. The managing directors of GICON^®-Limited are Robert Jenkins, Dr. Frank Adam and Ralf Trapphoff. In the years to come, the company will focus on the offshore wind market in the regions of England, Wales, Scotland as well as Ireland. "We have deliberately decided to become more involved in these regions because the signals being sent out by the British and Irish governments on the issues of climate change and the promotion of wind power generation are very much in line with the GICON^® philosophy," says Dr. Frank Adam about the expanded commitment. According to the latest climate protection index of the organization Germanwatch, a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Bonn, Germany, the United Kingdom is the country most committed to achieving climate goals and CO₂ emission reductions, only 2^nd to Sweden as the United Kingdom aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 68 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels.

GICON^® services from a single source

To achieve this, the British government is advised, among others, by the Committee on Climate Change, which has been active since 2008. GICON^® offshore expert Dr. Frank Adam believes that the "potential for offshore wind power generation is 30 GW and more" for the regions along the coasts of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. In this context, GICON^® plans to contribute its expertise from more than 25 years of environmental permitting, expert opinion preparation and approval planning for wind farms, as well as to convince with its own technical solutions for floating substructures, such as the GICON^® SOF, and other wind power engineering services. "Due to the high level of expertise within the GICON^® Group, it is possible for us to offer our services on an interdisciplinary basis from a single source." The total output of all wind farm projects where GICON^® Group companies have been involved in the permitting process amounts to more than 40,000 MW.

Contact GICON^®-Limited:

135 Aztec West,
Almondsbury,
Bristol BS32 4UB
- United Kingdom -

E-mail: office-uk[at]gicon.com