Renewable Energy ServicesProviding consultancy and product solutions to the international renewable energy industry

The key to our approach is the flexible delivery of a high-quality service which adds value to your project. We work innovatively to offer the best and most cost-effective solutions to meet your requirements.

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Care & Respect - our business and personal relationships are central to achieving success. We aim to take care of these relationships and be happy healthy achievers

Safety - we undertake to carry out everything we do in safe manner and to conduct our business in the best interests of our clients and our own health and safety

Responsibility - we do not delegate responsibility for our actions

Professionalism - we undertake to conduct business in a professional manner

Galetech Energy Services is an Irish multi-disciplinary renewable energy consultancy and products provider to the wind and solar industries. We provide development support, technical advisory, project management & engineering services from project feasibility through to construction and operation.

Established in Cavan in 2001, we have advised on over 2GW of project feasibility and grid studies, prepared and managed planning applications for over 350MW of wind and solar developments, project managed and provided engineering services to over 250MW of construction projects and currently asset manage over 180MW of operational wind farms.We combine the expertise of some of the industry’s leading experts in renewable energy.

The company’s principals have a combined experience of more than 60 years in the Irish & European renewable energy markets and are supported by an in-house team of industry professionals including planners, project development engineers and technical specialists.

Galetech Energy Services is part of the Galetech Energy Development group which has wind and solar farm development interests in Ireland and internationally and Ireland’s leading operations and maintenance services business Optinergy. www.optinergy.eu

• Project Feasibility

• Project Design and Optimisation

• Wind Monitoring Campaign Met Mast supply, installation & Wind Analysis

• Planning Application and Environmental Impact Assessment Preparation

• Preconstruction and Construction Owner’s Engineer Services

• Health and Safety Management

• Project Economic Appraisal

• Due Diligence

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Darren Sherry - Project Development Manager

Darren Sherry is a founding Director of Galetech Energy Ltd – one of Ireland’s leading wind energy development companies. Darren was responsible for the development of the 28.5MW Mountain Lodge Wind Farm in Co. Cavan from inception, through the consenting process to financial close.

Darren also currently has overall responsibility for numerous other Galetech Energy projects including the 20.5MW Carrickallen scheme in Co. Cavan which recently received full planning consent.

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Donogh O’Brien - Construction and Operations ManagerDonogh holds a degree in electrical and electronic engineering from University College Cork. Donogh has spent the last 18 years working in the electricity industry with the last 15 years in the wind industry. Donogh has extensive experience in engineering, project management and asset management of wind energy projects.

He brings experience from ESB International where he held positions in power engineering, wind construction project delivery and strategic consulting.

Over the past 7 years, he has grown the project delivery and asset management team within GES working on a broad range of Irish and international projects.

Paul Carney - Pre construction and Contracts ManagerA qualified mechanical engineer, Paul has spent 17 years working in the energy sector. After graduating from UCD he joined ESB International where he held positions in the power engineering section, investments department and wind development division. He gained extensive experience in developing, planning and executing strategic thermal power plants and wind farms in Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Wales and Spain.

In particular over the past five years, he has provided development advisory, project management and contract negotiation services to independent wind farm developers in Ireland, UK and Africa.  Paul has strong leadership, interpersonal, commercial, contractual and project management skills coupled with business acumen. Paul has a proven track record of successfully developing, financing and building projects for his own business ventures and third party clients.

Herman Busschots - International Markets Manager

Herman Busschots has substantial experience in the European renewables industry and in particular a long vocation to the renewables industry in Ireland.

Herman began working on Irish wind energy projects in 1993. In his career to date he has developed over 600MW of Wind Energy projects, 55MW of solar projects & over 600MW of projects that have deployed conventional generation technologies.

Previous employment includes Zond UK (part of Zond Inc.) and more recently GE Wind Energy, where he has held a variety of senior positions including Head of Wind Turbine Sales for the UK & Ireland and European Wide Powergen Project Development.

Donal Smith - Grid & Electrical

Donal holds a masters degree in power systems engineering from Helsinki University of Technology.

He brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the GES team having worked as grid connection

s manager on over 500MW of development and construction projects over the past 12 years with

SWS, Bord Gais and Brookfield. Donal is heavily involved in policy development and sits on the

IWEA grid committee and now leads our Grid and Electrical Engineering activities for a range of

clients including small and large wind developments, biomass and solar.

Gavin Daly - Planning & Development

Gavin holds a Degree in Town and Country Planning, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He has

fifteen years’ experience as planning and environmental consultant working on a wide range of

major public and private projects across a variety of sectors.

He formerly worked at a strategic level as special adviser to the Irish government on planning,

energy and climate change policy and legislation.

He has worked with us since 2011 and has advised on successfully bringing a number of major

projects through the planning process. He has a background in academia and also works across

Europe on major planning and environmental research projects for the European Commission

David McCann - Scada & Grid Code Compliance

David holds an electrical/electronic engineering degree from DIT Kevin St. He brings a wealth of

experience to the GES team, having worked with Airtricity and then SSE since 2007 on development

of a centralised monitoring and control system.

More recently, David has designed installed, commissioned and tested grid interface equipment

on windfarms in Ireland, Northern Ireland and England. David has gained extensive experience and

knowledge in the area of grid code compliance testing for TSO and DSO connected wind farms in

Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Mike Simms - Acoustics and Noise

Mike Simms holds a masters in mechanical engineering from university college Dublin and has

been an acoustic consultant with GES since October 2009. He was previously Senior Acoustic

Consultant with AWN Consulting Ltd for over five years and Acoustic Consultant with National

Environmental Sciences for three years.

Selected In-House Experts• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Ireland

50+ Projects1000+MW

France

Site Screening

Kenya

1 Project100MW

4 Projects200MW

Sweden

1 Project Met tMasInstallation

Poland

1 Project 40MW

Romania

3 Projects300MW

2 Projects 100MW

UK

10 Projects100MW

Norway

1 Project160MW

Kazakhstan

South Africa

Global Track Record• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Kipeto Wind Farm(100MW) Kenya

GE 1.7MWTurbines

Development and planningadvisory servicesProject preconstruction owner’sengineer

EPC contract signed andprogressing to financial close

Kipeto Energy Ltd

Lisdowney WindFarm (9.2MW)Co. Kilkenny,Ireland

Enercon E82Turbines

Preconstruction & Construction OwnersEngineer

In constructionLisdowney Wind Farm

Planning & Development 20+ +500MW

Construction 10+ +200MW

Asset Management 12 179MW

Project Phase

Project Project Owner

Number

Service

Total Capacity

Project Status

Terra Power, SouthAfrica Portfolio(200MW+)

GE Turbines

Project tendering andproject sale advisory & support services

SoldTerra Power(Initiator & owner)

Esidai Wind Farm(50MW) Kenya

Turbine choice tobe decided

Project Feasibility Services Study completed atthe end of 2016

Frontier InvestmentManagers & CraftskillsWind EnergyInternational

Northern IrelandWind ProjectPortfolio

Various turbinetechnology

Planning & technicalconsultant

Under developmentIsland Renewable Energy Ltd

Project WindPortfolio, Island ofIreland

Various turbinetechnology

Met mast supplier, installerand wind measurementcampaign monitoring

OngoingBrookfield RenewableEnergy Partners

Killala CommunityWind Farm(30MW) Co. Mayo,Ireland

GE 103 Turbines

Planning & preconstruction technical consultant

Development completeKillala Community WindFarm Ltd

Letteragh WindFarm, Co. Clare,Ireland

Enercon E82Turbines

Turbine Owner’s Engineer Preconstruction phase progressing to financial close

Seahound Wind Ltd

Carrickallen WindFarm (20.5MW)Co. Cavan, Ireland

Senvion MM82 &MM92 turbines

Project Management &Owner’s Engineer

Preconstructionprogressing to financial close

Galetech EnergyDevelopments

Coolberrin WindFarm (20.5MW)Co. Monaghan,Ireland

Turbine technologyto be decided

Project Management &Owner’s Engineer

Preconstruction progressing to financial close

Galetech EnergyDevelopments

Project Project Owner Service Project Status

250kW Singleturbine projectsNorthern Ireland

Various turbinetypes (2.5MW)

PlanningProject ManagementOwner’s Engineer

PreconstructionConstruction

Various

DerreenacrinnigWind Farm, Co.Cork, Ireland(5.8MW)

Enercon E44 andE48 Turbines

Turbine Owner’s Engineer Preconstruction stage progressing to financial close

Derreenacrinnig WindFarm

Liffey Energy WindTurbine (3MW)Co. Cavan,Ireland

Enercon E101Turbine

Planning & developmentconsultant

Preconstruction &Construction Owner’sEngineer

Progressing towards financial close

Liffey Meats Ltd

Kiltumper WindFarm, Co. Clare,Ireland (4.6MW)

Enercon E82Turbines

Turbine Owner’s Engineer Preconstruction stage progressing to financial close

Kiltumper Wind Farm

Maas Wind Farm,Co. Donegal,Ireland (8.8MW)

Enercon E48turbines

Turbine Owner’s Engineer Preconstruction stage progressing to financial close

Maas Wind Farm

Astee Solar Farm(5MW) Co. Kerry,Ireland

Planning ServicesSuccessfully managedplanning application to grant of permit

Planning phase completeConfidential (3rd Party Landowner)

Drumman SolarFarm (5MW)Co.Cavan,Ireland

Planning Services Currently in the planning process

Confidential (3rd Party Landowner)

Project Project Owner Service Project Status

Ballycadden WindFarm (24.2MW)Co. Wexford,Ireland

Enercon E82Turbines

Wind Farm Asset Manager OperationalGreystone AssetManagement

Dromada Mor WindFarm (33MW)Co. Kerry, Ireland

Vestas V105Turbines

Wind Farm Asset Manager OperationalImpax AssetManagement

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Clondargan

Stradone

Co. Cavan

Ireland

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Cork

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