Project Partners

A Successful Public Private Partnership

Ferrostaal is a general contractor and service provider in industrial plant construction. With its solar power division, Ferrostaal and its technology partners realize large-scale solar thermal power plants, advance new concentrating solar power technologies and market system solutions for solar cooling. Many decades of international experience in project development and management enable Ferrostaal to be on the forefront of the global solar industry.

In order to provide Talitha Kumi with a state-of-the-art solar thermal plant, Ferrostaal and the Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH (dena) – German Energy Agency – entered into a public private partnership. One of dena’s many initiatives to promote the use and development of regenerative energies and the German renewables industry is the agency’s “dena Solar Roofs Programme for Foreign Market Development”. dena supports the installation of solar systems on schools or German institutions abroad in cooperation with German solar companies. The solar plants are intended to demonstrate the capabilities of the technology and the expertises of German solar companies first-hand.

Beside the German Energy Agency, the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) accompanied the project in Talitha Kumi as a third partner, lending advice and co-financing within the framework of its “Renewable Energies Export Initiative”.

The idea for the project itself originated with former German Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who was informed of the situation of Talitha Kumi and approached Ferrostaal with a request for help. Being familiar with Minister Steinmeier’s “Future for Palestine” initiative, Ferrostaal didn’t hesitate to donate and install the plant.

The project was realized within twelve weeks to the fullest satisfaction of all partners involved. On December 2, 2009, the new solar plant was officially inaugurated with a ceremony at Talitha Kumi.