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ENGIE Award of Guam Power Authority Phase III Renewable Energy Projects Upheld by Guam’s Public Auditor

September 28, 2020 – Hagåtña, Guam – In a win for Guam’s clean energy goals, the Office of Public Accountability (OPA) upheld the power utility’s award of its Phase III Renewable Energy Project to ENGIE. The October 2019 award withstood three separate challenges by a single losing bidder, GlidePath Marianas Operations, Inc., a Chicago-based company that acquired the Dandan solar plant.

 

Luis F. Birolini, Head of Distributed Renewables for ENGIE North America said, “In its decision, the Public Auditor confirmed that ENGIE’s bid met the requirements set forth in Guam Power Authority’s Invitation for Bid (IFB) and was the lowest responsive bid for both sites. The Public Auditor held, ‘GlidePath’s failure to understand the requirements of the IFB did not affect the ability of any other bidder to correctly understand the requirements of the IFB and submit competing bids that conformed to the IFB’s requirements.’”

ENGIE, an international energy group and global leader in low-carbon energy and services, won the bid for the Phase III projects on the two sites, Naval Base Guam and South Finegayan in October 2019. These systems will deliver around 85GWh of clean dispatchable energy annually and will be tied directly to the utility grid for the people of Guam. As the low bidder, ENGIE’s system also ensures the highest savings to GPA and the Guam ratepayers.

The procurement is the third phase in a series of renewable energy projects by GPA and will include PV (solar) plus battery storage technology that will help power the grid at night. ENGIE’s design and engineering process for the Phase III project involved technical teams from the U.S., France, India, and Italy, with these design and construction leads meeting multiple times on Guam with the local engineering and construction community in order to submit a proposal utilizing the local workforce here on Guam.

After the initial award to ENGIE, GlidePath filed three appeals, all of which were rejected by GPA. GlidePath subsequently appealed to the Office of the Public Accountability. The GlidePath appeals have delayed the Phase III project by 10 months.

About ENGIE North America
ENGIE North America Inc. offers a range of capabilities in the United States and Canada to help customers decarbonize, decentralize and digitalize their operations. These include comprehensive services to help customers run their facilities more efficiently and optimize energy and other resource use and expense; clean power generation; energy storage; and retail energy supply that includes renewable, demand response, and on-bill financing options. Nearly 100% of the company’s power generation portfolio is low carbon or renewable. Globally, ENGIE S.A. relies on their key businesses (gas, renewable energy, services) to offer competitive solutions to customers. With 170,000 employees, customers, partners and stakeholders, we are a community of Imaginative Builders, committed every day to more harmonious progress.

For more information on ENGIE North America, please visit our LinkedIn page or Twitter feed, www.engie-na.com and www.engie.com.

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ENGIE Greens Power Consumption of Smart Energy Decisions’ Renewable Energy Sourcing Forum from Solomon Forks Wind Project

September 13, 2020 – Houston, TX – ENGIE North America will help the upcoming Smart Energy Decisions’ Renewable Energy Sourcing Forum walk its own talk by offsetting the event’s entire three days’ worth of energy consumption from nonrenewable sources with Green-e® eligible renewable energy certificates (RECs). ENGIE will supply and donate the RECs from ENGIE’s new 276 MW Solomon Forks Wind Project for this September 16-18 event in Ponte Vedra, Florida.

 

The announcement marks the fourth Smart Energy Decisions conference ENGIE North America has supported with RECs, further illustrating the energy leader’s commitment to promoting sustainable strategies. The RECs supplied for this event represent the environmental attributes or benefits associated with a specific quantity of renewable energy generated by the Solomon Forks Wind Project.

Ken Cowan, Vice President of Solutions Sales and Marketing at ENGIE North America, said, “We are helping our customers drive toward a zero-carbon energy future. Supplying electricity consumption offsets for this event is a great example of our environmentally responsible energy management solutions. We are proud to demonstrate our ability to provide customers with a wide range of renewable products that support a carbon-free, sustainable future.”

ENGIE North America’s capabilities in renewable products span from RECs and green power supply to custom structured solutions and traditional and virtual power purchase agreements to support the development of new renewable generation assets. ENGIE North America integrates these capabilities with energy efficiency, information services, demand management, energy services and distributed generation opportunities to optimize supply, demand, and operations, and achieve energy management targets.

John Failla, Founder and Editorial Director of Smart Energy Decisions, said, “We’re honored to have the continued backing of ENGIE – a leader in the world’s transformation to a low-carbon energy economy. It’s important that we practice what we preach and ENGIE helps to make that possible with our partnership to drive change in support of the energy transition taking shape in today’s power markets.”

The Renewable Energy Sourcing Forum is an invitation-only event designed to help large energy users build and execute renewable energy strategies. The Renewable Energy Sourcing Forum is the third event brand operated by Smart Energy Decisions, an information and event platform dedicated to helping large energy users navigate the energy transition.

For more information on Smart Energy Decisions, visit www.smartenergydecisions.com.

About ENGIE North America Inc.
ENGIE North America manages a range of energy businesses in the United States and Canada, including clean power generation, cogeneration, and energy storage; retail energy sales; and comprehensive services to help customers run their facilities more efficiently and optimize energy and other resource use and expense. Nearly 100 percent of the company’s power generation portfolio is low carbon or renewable. Globally, ENGIE is the largest independent power producer and a leading energy efficiency services provider in the world, with operations in 70 countries employing 160,000 people, including 1,100 researchers in 12 R&D centers. For more information on ENGIE North America, visit our Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook pages or www.engie-na.com website.

 

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MultiTech, Ltd. Transfers Ownership to Toronto-based Affiliate of Beswick Corporation

September 2, 2020 – Houston, TX – ENGIE North America announces a new owner for MultiTech, Ltd., a Canadian mechanical and electrical contractor. As of September 1st, ownership has transferred to an affiliate of Beswick Corporation, part of a group of companies owned by David and Kevin Beswick, investors in the greater Toronto area in Canada.

 

ENGIE decided to sell MultiTech Ltd., acquired 10 years ago, to a company that could refocus the business on profitable growth opportunities in its core greater Toronto market.

MultiTech, based out of Mississauga, Ontario, operates as a plumbing, mechanical and electrical contractor that offers fabrication and installation, new construction and retrofit and maintenance services in the greater Toronto area. The company currently employs approximately 100 salaried people, along with 300 to 400 laborers as union trades professionals.

Gwenaelle Avice-Huet, Executive Vice-President responsible for ENGIE Renewable business line and CEO of ENGIE North America, stated that she “appreciates the dedication of both the local MultiTech team and the ENGIE professionals that allowed for the best option for both parties and a successful transfer of ownership to the Beswick Corporation.”

“On behalf of Beswick Corp Management, our current employees and families, we look forward to welcoming our new team in servicing and growing our local areas. As a tier one, locally family owned multi trade organization, we are absolutely committed to growing MultiTech and remaining at the forefront of the industry,” said David Beswick & Kevin Beswick.

FMI Capital Advisors, Inc. served as financial advisor to ENGIE in the transaction.

About ENGIE North America
ENGIE North America Inc. offers a range of capabilities in the United States and Canada to help customers decarbonize, decentralize and digitalize their operations. These include comprehensive services to help customers run their facilities more efficiently and optimize energy and other resource use and expense; clean power generation; energy storage; and retail energy supply that includes renewable, demand response, and on-bill financing options. Nearly 100% of the company’s power generation portfolio is low carbon or renewable. Globally, ENGIE S.A. relies on their key businesses (gas, renewable energy, services) to offer competitive solutions to customers. With 170,000 employees, customers, partners and stakeholders, we are a community of Imaginative Builders, committed every day to more harmonious progress.
For more information on ENGIE North America, please visit our LinkedIn page or Twitter feed, www.engie-na.com and www.engie.com.

About Beswick Corporation
For more than thirty years, Beswick Corp has been dedicated to the prosperity of their Canadian company. From grassroots to a field in excess of over 200 employees, they are in a solid footprint to work with ENGIE and will continue to solidify their commitment to both their employees and their communities. In combination with real estate, infrastructure, mortgages, health care and residential home building, Beswick Corp is excited for their future.

ENGIE North America Media Contact:
Sandrine Deparis, sandrine.deparis@engie.com, (202) 855 3705

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