GE Current , a Daintree company , has today announced a partnership with Aquila Capital , to cater funding solutions for agriculturist looking to install low - Energy Department LED inflammation , through investment trust manage or suggest by Aquila Capital . " The partnership will allow agriculturist across Europe who are designing newfangled indoor farming facilities , or upgrade existing installations to the latest lighting engineering , to deploy Current ’s reach of Arize ™ horticultural light-emitting diode solution , quicker and with the aim of no up - front Das Kapital expenditure , " they explain .
Projects financed through the new partnership have the voltage to attain CO2 savings of 30 - 40 % vs existing installations , with repayment calculations based on a proportion of the future DOE monetary value . By removing the financial barrier to the late generation of horticultural lighting and by put up agriculturist through every footstep of their journeying to pass , Current place to help optimize the timbre and volume of production , whilst significantly reducing the environmental impact of indoor farming .
“ The gardening diligence is well aware of its environmental responsibility and the sustainability targets being handed down across all sectors , ” commented James Fleet , Commercial General Manager , EU , ME & ANZ at Current . “ Aquila Capital ’s energy efficiency squad is the ideal better half as it has already helped a number of European nursery operators to enforce DOE - efficient biomass technology at scale . The team infer the needs of European growers and can build bespoke , flexible funding solutions rapidly , allowing them to reap the financial and environmental welfare of deploying our Arize conduce solutions right away and with minimal risk . ”
Bruno Derungs , Senior Investment Manager with Aquila Capital ’s Energy Efficiency Team , said : “ Our investiture strategy is specialised on finance small - to - spiritualist size of it energy efficiency undertaking for industrial or commercial company , and carry out these undertaking in partnership with experient project developers . With Current , we have an excellent multinational engineering supplier as a strong collaborator . Our funding oblation will further reduce the roadblock for operators to prevail their greenhouses on the most innovative and energy efficient technology . We are excited to contribute to our common goal of drive forth the vigour transition by supporting Current to actualise additional projects . ”
For more information : GE Currenthttp://www.gecurrent.com/eu/horticulture .
