جوليا Castoldi

- Head up the project development team responsible for the origination, development and sales of large utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) and wind projects up to financial close;

- Negotiation and acquisition of lease agreements and securing grid connections and building permits;

- Project negotiations with project partners like local developers, IPPs or utilities;

- Project financing, planning and implementation of market entries;

- Develop and set up international strategic partnerships with utilities, project developers, IPPs.

Main Projects: Egypt PV (50MW), Kenya PV (40MW )

Business development and project manager

- Consultant in site for new wind and PV projects developments;

- Due Diligence and feasibility assessment for wind plants (700 MW) - South Africa;

- Construction site support, Plant monitoring and Operation & Maintenance Manual editing
PV plant (90.5 MW) - De Aar, South Africa;

- Technical and economic feasibility assessment for wind and solar plants (70 MW) - Italy;

- Support to the Business Developer Director in finding new business opportunities, contacts with Clients and Entities in South Africa and Italy.

Main Projects:

- De Aar (SA) - PV (90.5 MW) http://www.youtube.com/watch?=ot0rIBou4yk&sns=em

- Johannesburg - PV and wind (700 MW)

Development Manager in renewable energies:

- Project development and management from green field to operation;

- Contract management and engineering partners coordination;

- Environmental permits.

- Due diligence auditing;

- Preliminaries, Design development and Authorities approvals;

- Coordination of Engineering Design, in compliance with the budget and expected return on investment;

- Relations with public entities involved in the permitting procedures;

- Assessment of new project and business opportunities;

- Operational Audits in compliance with Safety Codes;

- Professional Development in Monitoring in national and European legislation concerning renewables;

- B2B contractors management.

Main Projects: 52 + 20 MW (wind)
Asset management: 1.2 GW (wind)