Over 6,000 solar panels will be installed to generate 4,200MWH of clean energy annually
Landmark Group, a leading retail and hospitality conglomerate in the Middle East and India, has signed a 2.6 megawatt-peak solar agreement with Yellow Door Energy, a UAE-based sustainable energy provider, and AMANA Investments, a renowned design-build construction company.
As the first joint venture between Yellow Door Energy and AMANA Investments, the solar agreement will bring clean energy to Landmark Group’s advanced, fully automated AED 1bn OMEGA DC Warehouse in Jebel Ali Free Zone (JAFZA) in Dubai, UAE.
Over 6,000 solar panels will be installed to generate 4,200 megawatt-hours of clean energy annually, equivalent to reducing carbon emissions by 1,700 tonnes or removing 380 cars from the road. Construction is expected to start in late 2020 and the solar plant is expected to be completed by the spring of 2021.
“This solar agreement with Yellow Door Energy and AMANA Investments enables us to switch to clean energy, and expand our solar ambition, which in turn helps us become more cost-competitive and innovative as a business,” asserted Rajesh Garg, Group CFO, Landmark Group.
“This solar installation will be very befitting to our fully automated OMEGA DC, which is already a certified ‘Green’ distribution centre,” observed Mihin Shah, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Landmark Group.
“As a developer with over 110 megawatts of solar projects in the region, Yellow Door Energy is proud to include Landmark Group in our growing list of premier customers,” affirmed Jeremy Crane, CEO and Co-Founder, Yellow Door Energy.
“We are proud to extend, in cooperation with Yellow Door Energy, another service to Landmark enabling the Group to reduce its cost of power in the same facility that we constructed two years ago,” noted Riad Bsaibes, President & CEO of AMANA Investments.
