WINDHOEK - The Ohlthaver and List Group of Companies has established O&L Energy, a new subsidiary that will serve as an international specialist for renewable energy in Southern Africa.  

A statement from the company says O&L Energy would focus on transmitting, manufacturing, supplying, distributing and dealing in all forms of renewable energy generated by any source such as solar energy and other energy related fields.

Bernd Vincent Walbaum has been appointed as the chief executive officer of O&L Energy.  “Energy will be a crucial topic in the future worldwide and because of the limited resources of fossil fuels, enormous efforts are made to develop renewable energies like solar, wind, hydro and biomass. Namibia and Southern Africa are now also starting to develop and build renewable energy projects,” said Walbaum.

O&L Energy benefits from high reliability, German workmanship, minimum maintenance and maximum lifespan of the products, as well as from many years of experience in Namibia, South Africa, Africa and Europe.
Through well-known international partners, O&L Energy will provide renewable energy solutions of the highest engineering and efficiency standards.

“O&L Energy and its partners have long-standing experience in consulting, planning and constructing of large PV plants, ranging from 500KW up to 3.5MW projects in Spain, Italy and Greece and now also in Southern Africa.

“We offer high quality products and services for solar power plants with customer specific turnkey systems,” said Walbaum.
O&L Energy has a broad product portfolio with a wide range of photovoltaic/solar power and solar water heaters, from residential solutions to large-scale megawatt projects.

The company also specializes in consulting, designing, planning and building of solar water heating, photovoltaic and biogas plants as well as other renewable energy solutions.