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The Spanish companies Grupo Clavijo and MFV Solar, with the support of the Q-Growth Fund, have reached a merger agreement to form NCLAVE, the new name of this partnership, aimed at becoming the world leader in the design, manufacture and installation of structures and trackers for the solar photovoltaic market.

NCLAVE now has more than 10 years of experience, during which it has installed over 2 GW in 40 countries; and it is scheduled to install 600 MW in the coming months. It currently has offices and production centres on all five continents, making ita global company.

Grupo Clavijo,with its headquarters in Viana (Navarra, Spain) is now one of the sector leaders in Latin America, the USA and in the MENA region and it has production plants and offices in Chile, the USA, Brazil and Australia. In turn, MFV Solar, with its headquarters in Liria (Valencia), has a long and strong track record with installations in various countries in Europe, Latin America and on the Asian continent.

Q-Growth Fund is an investment vehicle of Qualitas Equity Partners, a fund management company with one of the longest track records in the Spanish private equity industry and with extensive experience in the photovoltaic sector. This operation is encompassed in its fund targeting companies in growth stages.

Photovoltaic solar energy has reached the point where it can compete with conventional energy sources. This means that there will be strong global growth in the sector in the coming years. Our goal is to help create a global leader that is able to harness the growth opportunities existing in the sector, remarks Borja Oyarzabal, a partner at Q-Growth.

The merger with MFV Solar is a strategic step that strengthens our companies` international standing in the structures and solar trackers sector. Furthermore, with the support of Q-Growth, we are taking a major step towards making the most advanced solar tracking technology available to developers, EPC contractors and installers worldwide””, notes Miguel Clavijo, CEO of Grupo Clavijo.

The Spanish firm Grupo Clavijo and the Argentinian company Grupo Iraolahave signed a strategic agreement to produce structures and solar trackers in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. This partnership will enable these products to provide a solution for the large number of companies in Argentina that are investing in photovoltaic energy, as reflected in the RENOVAR 1 and RENOVAR 1.5 tenders.

Grupo Iraola, to which the companies Corven Autopartes and Corven Motos belong, has its manufacturing centres in the city of Venado Tuerto, in the province of Santa Fe. It is made up of different business units that are engaged in the auto parts, motorcycle, farming, energy and real estate sectors; directly employing more than 800 people. The companies include two divisions that are leaders in their sectors: Corven Autopartes, which has manufactured and sold auto parts for over 45 years; and Corven Motos, a company that manufactures and sells motorcycles in the Argentinian market.

CLAVIJO ELT S.L, is a Spanish company with over 50 years of experience in studying, designing, manufacturing and installing solar trackers for photovoltaic plants and it has performed installations with a capacity of more than 2 GW in various parts of the world. The more than 150 projects completed on all five continents demonstrate the adaptability of the Spanish company and its products to overcome the various challenges presented by climate and land topography, thanks to the efficiency, durability and reliability of its products and services.

Grupo Clavijo has consolidated its international expansion with the completion of the Solar One Ceylon solar photovoltaic project for the company Windforce. The facility, with 12.56 MW of power, has 624 single-axis trackers from the SP 160 model, which have 315/320 Wp polycrystalline modules manufactured by JA Solar. This solar farm is located in the town of Welikanda and was completed in five months.

Solar energy facilities in the south-east of Asia reached a total power of almost 5 GW in 2016, and this is estimated to grow by an average of 50% per year in the region over the next five years. Itis currently one of the most attractive areas for developing photovoltaic solar projects, along with countries like China and India.

This project has consolidated the internationalisation of the Spanish firm, which has now installed over 1.2 GW across the world, with over 600 MW in development in various countries. Its commitment to the most advanced tracking technology and its capacity to develop projects in any country in the world are behind the international growth of the company. Grupo Clavijo has its corporate headquarters in Viana (Navarre, Spain), production plants and offices in the USA, Brazil and Chile.

(Photo: courtesy of Windforce)

The Spanish company Grupo Clavijo is presenting the most advanced technology in photovoltaic solar trackers on the market at the tenth edition of the World Future Energy Summit 2017 (Hall 7,stand 7340). With its attendance at this event in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Grupo Clavijo is making the latest innovations in the field of trackers available to the photovoltaic solar energy sector in the MENA region.One example of this commitment to technology is being the only manufacturer in the world to offer a spherical bearing. Their trackers include an astronomical clock with the coordinates of the location where they are installed in order to take best advantage of hours of sunlight. They can harness between 18% and 40% more energy than a fixed structure.

After having installed more than 1.2 GW worldwide, Grupo Clavijo`s strategy includes growing its presence on major projects in the MENA region, a geographical area where renewable energy has been growing significantly in recent years and where, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), it will continue to grow by 78% through 2021, led by the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Morocco. The Spanish company has already completed projects in Jordan and Israel. 

WFES, with more than 100 exhibiting companies and an extensive programme of conferences, is one of the main events for the solar energy sector in the MENA region. It will run from 16 to 19 January 2017 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre.

The Spanish company Grupo Clavijo has supplied all of the fixed structures for the Oriana I and Oriana II projects, with capacities of 28.62 and 29.03 MWp respectively, in the municipality of Isabela, Puerto Rico, which are owned by Sonnedix and were each completed within five months. The dual-column structures used were installed with a tilt angle of up to 20˚ in certain areas and robustly designed in accordance with the local conditions, being based near the sea. Their design means that they can be seamlessly adapted to the terrain and are quick and easy to assemble.

Grupo Clavijo has over 10 years of experience in the photovoltaic sector, with over 1.2 GW installed across the world. It has a strong presence on the American continent, where it has installed photovoltaic installations in both Latin America (Chile, Mexico,Honduras, Uruguay and El Salvador) and the USA. Grupo Clavijo has various production plants in Spain, the USA, Chile and Brazil and offices on the East and West Coasts of the USA and in Abu Dhabi, Chile and Brazil, as well as having its corporate headquarters in Spain.

About Sonnedix

Sonnedix Power Holdings Limited (together with its subsidiaries, “Sonnedix”), is an Independent Solar Power Producer (IPP) with a proven track record in delivering high performance cost competitive solar photovoltaic plants to the market. Sonnedix develops, builds,owns and operates solar power plants globally. For more information about Sonnedix, please visit www.sonnedix.com

The Spanish company GRUPO CLAVIJO has obtained certification of its carbon footprint in accordance with standard ISO 14064, quantifying the CO2 emissions from the design and production activities and repairs it carries out in its production centre in Viana (Navarre, Spain). The verification process was performed by AENOR (Spanish Association for Standardisation and Certification).

This initiative, which is part of the company`s corporate social responsibility plan, joins the ISO 9001, ISO 14001, UNE-EN 1090-1 certifications that certify the quality of the structural calculations for the sizing of components, its factory production control procedure and the performance of those components, always respecting the environment. It also has a structural safety certificate awarded by TÜV-NORD for its fixed structures, and a Technical Due Diligence report (bankability report) by Black & Veatch (B&V). All with the aim of offering our customers better value in a sustainable way, with the highest quality and safety available in the market.

On 1 December, the Spanish company Grupo Clavijo will take part in the third addition of the “Energy Engineering Forum: energy projects in emerging countries (EEF2016)” in Madrid, an event that will bring together manufacturers and distributors of energy production equipment and technologies, engineering companies, EPC contractors and companies that promote and develop powerplants.

EEF2016 will analyse the challenges that Spanish companies have to overcome to compete in the most active international markets of the global energy industry. Rubén Clavijo, a partner and the Director of Business Development of Grupo Clavijo, will present the technological solutions that it provides for the successful completion of photovoltaic solar energy projects, with the experience of having installed more than 1.2 GW in countries across the world. The event will also include presentations by experts from the commercial offices of embassies in Spain, from countries such as Argentina and Japan, as well as prominent professionals from consultancy firms and other companies from the sector, who will be examining energy regulation in countries such as Mexico and Chile.

Those who attend this technical conference will be able to learn first-hand about the difficulties faced by Spanish companies when adapting their equipment, installations and projects to their customers` needs in countries with conditions that are very different to those in Europe, and about the “success stories” of the plants that we have recently developed.

With this initiative, Grupo Clavijo aims to make all of its expertise in the field of photovoltaic project development available to firms seeking to implement projects in emerging countries.

Grupo Clavijo has presented its products and services in Buenos Aires to a large group of professionals from the solar energy sector. For the Spanish company, Argentina is a strategic market,bearing in mind the growth expectations of photovoltaics in the coming years. Miguel Clavijo, CEO of the Group, explained the company`s capacity in terms ofthe manufacture, supply and assembly of its solar structures and trackers to those in attendance, emphasising reliability and safety as distinguishing features. Among other noteworthy aspects, he highlighted the R&D&I department, which works to improve the technology of the tracker systems, such as the spherical bearing for its single axis trackers.

With the experience gained from projects carried out in Chile, Uruguay, Panama, Honduras and Mexico, the company now aims to become one of the main suppliers of solar trackers in the Argentinian market.

The Spanish company Grupo Clavijo has supllied to SolarPack, the EPC company, 26.5 MW of fixed structures for the”Alto Cielo” solar photovoltaic park located in Tomás Gomensoro (in the department of Artigas, Uruguay), owned by TerraForm Global, Inc. The work was completed in 5 months. The structures used were installed at a tilt angle of 25˚ and are both robust and dependable, having been designed to adapt perfectly to the terrain with a quick and simple set up.

The company Grupo Clavijo is very active on the American continent, having completed important projects both in Latin America (Chile, Honduras, Uruguay, El Salvador, Panama, Mexico and Puerto Rico) and in the USA. The international structure of the Group, with production plants in Spain, South Africa, USA, Chile and Brazil, and offices in California and Miami (USA), Abu Dhabi, Chile and Brazil, as well as its corporate headquarters in Spain, means that it is able to develop projects all over the world with the security and reliability of more than 1.2 GW installed successfully.

GrupoClavijo holds the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001certifications, as well as acknowledgements such as the structural safety certificate awarded by TÜV-NORD for its fixed structures, the Technical DueDiligence (bankability report) by Black & Veatch (B&V) and the certification in the execution of steel structures for the structural components that it designs and manufactures, according to UNE-EN 1090-1, with execution class EXC2, certifying the quality of its structural calculations for the sizing of components, its factory production control and the performance of those components.

The Spanish company Grupo Clavijo will once again be attending the Solar Power International trade show (from 12 to 15 September) in La Vegas (NV, USA), with the latest generation of its advanced single-axis trackers.

After more than 12 years of work by its entire engineering and R&D team, aimed at developing leading single-axis technology, Grupo Clavijo is now able to offer the global photovoltaic sector the SP160 (single-row) and SP1000 (multi-row) models, whose outstanding features include their optimal reliability (demonstrated in over 16 installations completed), and their reliability/efficiency in adverse weather conditions (from -5ºC to + 50ºC and at altitudes of up to 1000 m), thanks to the circuit board and microprocessor which incorporate advanced wind control software that enables pre-flag positions, thus ensuring the tracker`s structural integrity.

In an effort to continuously improve the performance of its trackers, so that they are increasingly cost effective for developers and EPC contractors, Grupo Clavijo has also developed a new spherical bearing for its single-axis trackers which, in addition to the benefits already found in the previous model (lubrication and maintenance free, UV and ageing resistance and adaptation to complicated terrain), now also includes a faster assembly time.  Our last bearing design is able to absorb the axis alignment variations where the photovoltaic modules are installed, a unique feature in single-row and multi-row solar trackers. The manufacturing quality has recently been acknowledged by the certification it obtained for the execution of steel structures for the structural components that it designs and manufactures, according to UNE-EN 1090-1, with execution class EXC2, certifying the quality of its structural calculations for the sizing of components, its factory production control and the performance of those components.

All of these innovations will be exhibited at stand #2560 in the Las Vegas Convention Center in September.

Grupo Clavijo has production centres in Spain, the USA, Brazil, Chile and South Africa. It has recently opened new offices in Miami and San Francisco (USA), in addition to the ones it already has in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Chile, Brazil and its corporate headquarters in Viana (Navarra, Spain). This global presence allows it to offer a comprehensive service in any country in the world, where its trackers are present with over 1.2 GW installed.

Brazilian company Brafer (www.brafer.com), with over 40 years of experience in manufacturing metal structures, and Grupo Clavijo, a Spanish company considered as one of the largest global corporations in the solar energy sector, will make their presence felt at Intersolar South America, which will be held between the 23rd and 25th of August, at Expo Center Norte, in São Paulo – SP (Brazil).

The Brafer/Clavijo stand (D49) will feature a working solar tracker model and its supporting structure, allowing visitors to learn more about the system offered by the partnership.

Now being held for the fifth time, Intersolar South America is the principal series of exhibitions in the world of solar power. The fair offers all professionals in the solar power sector an ideal platform for making contacts and for gathering information about the most recent developments on the market and efficient production methods, as well as project financing and planning.