2023.03.01

Mauritius: Qair awarded four Solar PV and Battery Storage (BESS) Hybrid projects totaling 60MWac

Bambous, March 1, 2023 – Qair, an independent renewable energy producer, announces the signature with the Central Electricity Board (CEB) of four power purchase agreements for Renewable Energy from Solar PV and Battery Storage (BESS) Hybrid Facilities. This investment, worth more than Rs 7 billion (approx. 163 M USD), represents the largest investment in the […]
2023.02.28

Agrivoltaism: Qair Group presents Solélab to French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne at the Paris International Agricultural Show

Invited by Sébastien Windsor, President of the French Chambers of Agriculture (APCA) and of the Regional Chamber of Agriculture of Normandy, Jérôme Billerey, Managing Director of Qair Group in France, and Philippe Rollet, Head of Agri Energies in France, presented to the French Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, and the French Minister of Agriculture and Food, […]
2023.02.20

Qair, the only renewable energy producer to join the 2023 French Tech 120 class

Paris, February 20, 2023 – Qair, a leading independent renewable energy producer, is proud to announce its selection in the 2023 class of the French Tech 120 program. The French Tech 120 is a French government program launched in 2019 to support the most successful companies with the capacity to become world-class technology leaders. 2023, […]
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Qair hosts second edition of its Green Hydrogen Meetings 

Qair continues its series of meetings on renewable hydrogen with a second edition organised at the Jacquemart-André Museum in Paris, gathering of 60 key decision-makers from industries undergoing energy transition.   Launched in 2022, Les “Rencontres de l’Hydrogène” bring together each year manufacturers, entrepreneurs and institutions to share a privileged moment of exchange around the […]
2023.01.31

Qair welcomes Bpifrance as new shareholder

Paris, January 31, 2023 – The independent renewable energy producer Qair welcomes Bpifrance as a new shareholder to accelerate its development in France and internationally. Qair develops, owns, and operates projects within 20 countries across Europe, Brazil, and Africa. Its 550 employees operate 1 GW of installed capacity of which 75% wind and are developing […]
2023.01.05

Qair Group 2022 key events

As we look back on the past year, we are proud to share some of our major achievements as an independent renewable energy producer.   We have opened new offices in Scotland; We have been awarded 2 GW of offshore wind projects with Thistle Wind Partners, our consortium with DEME and Aspiravi; We have joined […]
2022.12.16

Morocco : Qair inaugurates solar plant on Nexans site in Mohammedia

The Nexans solar plant in Mohammedia was inaugurated on December 7th, in the presence of The Minister of Industry and Trade of Morocco, Ryad Mezzour, the CEO of Nexans, Christopher Guerin, the managing director of Nexans Maroc, Selma ALAMI, and Wahba Zniber, managing director of Qair in Morocco. Considered one of the largest industrial power […]
2022.12.16

Morocco : Qair inaugurates photovoltaic power station to supply Safran plant

On December 9th, Qair inaugurated the Safran’s photovoltaic power station located in Nouaceur in the presence of a Leila Benali, Morocco’s Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Safran Nacelles’ President Vincent Caro, Hamid Benbrahim El Andaloussi, Chairman of Safran’s Board of Directors, and Wahba Zniber, managing director of Qair in Morocco. First solar plant in the aeronautic sector, […]
2022.12.07

Qair appoints a Head of Hydrogen Strategy for the Group

Paris, December 7, 2022 – As of November 29, 2022, Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson is Qair group’s Head of Hydrogen Strategy and Partnerships, a newly created position. Since 2018 Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson is the Executive Chairman of the Group’s Icelandic subsidiary, a member of the steering group for the Task Force for Carbon Pricing Europe and […]
2022.11.23

Hyd’Occ signs a memorandum of understanding with the port of Port-La-Nouvelle for the installation and operation of a renewable hydrogen production plant 

Port-La Nouvelle, 23 November 2022 – Hyd’Occ (a company specialised in the development, the financing, the construction, the production and the storage of renewable hydrogen) and the SEMOP Port-La-Nouvelle (a single-purpose semi-public company responsible for the planning, operation, management and development of the commercial port of Port-La-Nouvelle) have announced the signing of a Memorandum of […]
2022.11.17

Route du Rhum: After the storm

Taking the start of the 22nd Route du Rhum on November 9th, our skipper Kito de Pavant has passed east of Sao Miguel, catching a glimpse of the lights of Ilha Santa Maria. After a breathtaking start, with 138 boats lined up on the 3.5-mile (6.4 km) long line, including 55 Class40, a record high […]
2022.11.17

Italy: Qair’s projects are moving forward

The last few months have been marked by great progress for Qair in the development of renewable energy projects in Italy. Following the acquisition of Green City Italy last June, Qair strengthened its team and increased its development project portfolio. A first solar plant of a 8 MW capacity located in Marrubiu, in Sardinia, will […]
2022.11.17

Iceland : Qair signs the first repowering project in the country

Present at the 12th “Colloque National Eolien” in Paris, Qair Group COO Charles Lhermitte signed with ENERCON the repowering of the Thykkvibaer wind farm, the oldest of the only two wind farms in the country, which was bought and dismantled earlier this year to be repowered in the second half of 2023 with E44 900-kW […]
2022.11.15

Agrivoltaism : great success for Qair and its solutions at French agricultural shows

The Group took part in the 3rd edition of the Med’Agri expo, which brought together 350 representatives of the various agricultural sectors in the Mediterranean region at Avignon’s Exhibition Centre from 18 to 20 October. Our team members received the visit of French senators and elected representative from several Chambers of Agriculture.   On 22 […]
2022.10.05

Qair welcomes DIF Capital Partners as new shareholder

Paris, October 5th, 2022 – Qair, a fast growing renewable energy platform company, and DIF Capital Partners (“DIF”), a leading global independent investment manager, are pleased to announce that they have signed a partnership agreement whereby DIF, through DIF Infrastructure VII, will invest in the Group to accelerate its growth and portfolio build out. Qair […]
2022.09.30

Brazil: Qair’s Olê Rendeiras project hits the catwalk at Milan fashion week

In 2019, Qair associated with Brazilian brand Catarina Mina to create the Olê Rendeiras project which is aimed at valuing the Bilro lace tradition in Trairi, in the state of Cearà, to strengthen the culture and move the economy of the region in a sustainable way. In 2021, the Olê Rendeiras project made its debut […]
2022.09.26

Poland: Qair commissions Olszówka wind farm

  The project consists of: 6 wind turbines with a total capacity of 12.8 MW Meeting the energy demand of circ. 24,000 households Avoiding the emission of circ. 33,700 tonnes of CO2 per year     Wrocław, 26 September 2022 – Qair announces the commissioning of its seventh wind farm in Poland. The 12.8 MW […]
2022.09.14

United Kingdom: Qair acquires Britaniacrest Recycling

London, 14 September 2022 – European independent renewable energy producer Qair has purchased Waste management company Britaniacrest Recycling Ltd (BCR) and has yesterday completed the acquisition. This transaction gives Qair access to a well-run waste management company and associated infrastructure as well as all the rights to the 3Rs Energy from Waste (EfW) project at […]
2022.08.03

Floating Offshore Wind in France: Qair, TotalEnergies and Corio Generation Join Forces to Bid for Mediterranean Tender

Paris, 3 August 2022 –  A consortium of Qair, TotalEnergies and Corio Generation has been pre-selected by the French Directorate General for Energy and Climate (DGEC) to participate in a competitive tender to develop two floating wind farms in the Mediterranean Sea. The two projects of about 250 MW each could supply enough clean energy […]
2022.07.18

Poland: Qair launches 6th wind farm

Qair is happy to announce the launch of its sixth wind farm in the Rychwal commune, in Poland. In total, 6 turbines with a capacity of 18MW will generate the equivalent of 60 GWh of energy annually and enable the supply of approximatively 30, 000 households in electricity from renewable sources. With this new project […]
2022.06.25

Tunisia : Qair launches first floating solar power plant

Located on the Tunis Lake, the floating solar power plant developed by  Qair was inaugurated on Saturday 25 June in the presence of the Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy Neila Nouira Gongi, the Minister of Economy Samir Saied, the Head of the Regional Economic Service of the French Ambassador to Tunisia Fanny Labarthe, the […]
2022.06.16

Ambulances for Ukraine

CMI France and BSE Ambulances in association with AMCFU the France-Ukraine Medical Charity Agency are raising funds to finance the purchase, preparation and shipment of second-hand ambulances to Ukraine, supplemented, if possible, with emergency pharmaceutical products.  You can make a donation on (French): https://www.helloasso.com/associations/aide-medicale-caritative-france-ukraine/collectes/cmi-france-ambulances  We support this project:  Qair group and its shareholders have committed […]
2022.06.03

Germany: Qair acquires Green City’s development project portfolio

Qair announces the acquisition of a significant development portfolio in Germany This acquisition reinforces Qair’s position in Europe and establishes its presence in Germany Qair asserts its ambitions to develop its operation in the largest European economy   Paris, 3 June 2022 – Qair, a leading French independent producer of renewable energy pursues its strategic […]
2022.05.30

Qair sponsors the 20th edition of the Défi Wind

Last weekend, from the 26th to the 29th of May, the town of Gruissan hosted the 20th edition of the Défi Wind. 3 days of intense races and more than 150 km covered in windsurfing starting from the Plage des Châlets. Sporting event since 1986, this year, more than 1250 amateur and professional windsurfers, of […]
2022.05.19

Eolmed: Launch of new crowdfunding campaign for the floating wind farm project

By joining forces with Enerfip, the first French crowdfunding platform dedicated to renewable energy, Eolmed became the first floating wind farm to carry out a citizen financing in France. After a first collection of €400,000 financed in 2018, Eolmed offers another possibility to the inhabitants of the Occitanie Region at first, then to all from […]
2022.05.19

Qair launches its series of meetings on green hydrogen with a first evening gathering of 27 key decision-makers from industries undergoing energy transition

Launched on May 11th by the independent producer of renewable energy Qair, Les Rencontres de l’Hydrogène Vert (Green Hydrogen Meetings) aim at bringing together industrialists once a year to discuss the challenges of renewable hydrogen. Company directors, industrial leaders in decarbonation and institutional representatives met for a cocktail party overlooking the roofs of Paris to […]
2022.05.16

Qair and Enerfip reshape corporate financing with first guaranteed participatory bond issue

European leader in participatory financing in the renewable energy sector, Enerfip innovates by arranging a bank guarantee with four regional banks on a bond issue by the independent renewable energy producer Qair, for an amount of €25 million. This is a unique structuring in France, very competitive for project owners and with an unrivalled guarantee […]
2022.05.12

Thistle Wind Partners successfully secures rights to develop two projects under Scotwind leasing round

Thistle Wind Partners (TWP), a partnership between DEME, Qair, and Aspiravi is pleased to confirm it has now successfully secured the rights to develop two projects under the ScotWind leasing round after finalising the Option to Lease Agreements with Crown Estate Scotland. The two projects are :   Cluaran Deas Ear, a 1 GW fixed […]
2022.05.09

Floating wind: Eolmed announces the FID of its 30MW French Mediterranean pilot project

Port-La Nouvelle, France, May 9, 2022 – Eolmed is proud to announce the FID of its multi-unit floating offshore wind project in the Mediterranean Sea. The pilot farm, one of the first three in France, will be commissioned in mid-2024. The Eolmed project brings together around Qair:  TotalEnergies and BW Ideol, the supplier of the […]
2022.04.11

Qair announces appointment of representative in China

In the context of today’s raw material prices volatility, Qair Group announces its expansion in China through the appointment of Zhou Shiyuan as its new local representative. An entrepreneur also known for his involvement in the art and architecture scenes, Zhou Shiyuan will be responsible for the Group’s procurement in China and manage relationships with […]
2022.02.24

Qair issues first Euro PP Green Bond of €43.7 million

Paris, February 24, 2022 – Qair, a French independent renewable energy producer, announces the success of its first green bond issue in the amount of €43,7 million, which will enable the group to finance new power plants in Europe.   Strong success with institutional investors With this first Green Bond issued by Qair, the group […]
2022.02.07

Qair signs with ING Bank Śląski the financing of 82 MW of renewable assets

ING Bank Śląski and Qair signed PLN 242 m bilateral facility agreements to finance construction process of ten photovoltaic projects totaling 72 MW and two onshore wind projects with the capacity of 10 MW. All projects won the renewable energy auctions in 2020-2021 and will reach operational phase in 2023, to be followed by 17-year […]
2022.02.04

Qair becomes Official Partner of the Energy Observer Odyssey

Paris, February 4th, 2022 – The independent renewable energy producer Qair supports Energy Observer, the first hydrogen ship and the first French ambassador of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, by becoming an official partner of its round-the-world Odyssey for the next 3 years.   Linked by a common will to accelerate the energy transition […]
2022.01.17

Thistle Wind Partners (TWP), a consortium of DEME, Qair, and Aspiravi, land 2 GW in highly competitive ScotWind offshore wind leasing round

Weybridge, UK – January 17, 2022 –  Crown Estate Scotland announced that Thistle Wind Partners (TWP), a consortium of DEME Concessions (Wind) NV (42,5%), Qair Marine SAS (42,5%), and Aspiravi International NV (15%), had been awarded 2GW worth of option areas in Scotland’s, highly competitive ScotWind seabed leasing process.   The consortium’s successful projects are: […]
2022.01.11

Qair to take active part in Scotland’s energy transition through partnership with Scottish wind developer Eco Project

Paris and Edinburgh, 11 January 2022 – Qair, an independent producer of exclusively renewable energy, continues its expansion in Europe with the opening of a new subsidiary in Scotland, resulting from a development partnership with Eco Projects, a Scottish wind developer.  Through Qair Scotland, the partners aim to jointly develop, build, operate, and own a […]
2022.01.06

Qair awarded grant to study Regulatory Framework for Green Hydrogen Production in Iceland

Established in 2016 with the aim of creating a channel that supports and develops industry-related progress, the Federation of Icelandic Industries’ Progress Fund has awarded Qair a ISK 2,500,000 grant for legal and regulatory environmental research on green hydrogen production in Iceland. The Fund, which has awarded a total of ISK 8 million in grants […]
2021.12.10

Eolmed: With the christening of the Eolbio buoy, Qair launches a program to study the biofouling of the future wind farm floats

Port-La Nouvelle, France, December 10, 2021 – Qair, an independent producer of exclusively renewable energy, announces the naming of the experimental buoy Eolbio as part of its EolMed floating offshore wind project. This program is the result of a partnership between Qair and the CRIOBE laboratory of the University of Perpignan Via Domitia, the Computer […]
2021.11.15

Qair and Norðurál sign a letter of intent on the supply of wind power to produce low-carbon aluminum in Iceland and co-operation on CO2 capture

Reykjavík, November 15, 2021 – Qair, an independent renewable power producer and Norðurál, a subsidiary of Century Aluminum Inc., have signed a letter of intent on the supply to Norðurál Grundartangi aluminum smelter of wind power originating from two of Qair’s windfarms with a total installed capacity of 200 MW under development in Iceland. In […]
Tryggvi Þór Herbertsson, Icelandic President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson and Lucien Mallet at the French-Icelandic symposium on green hydrogen
2021.11.12Tryggvi Þór Herbertsson, Icelandic President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson and Lucien Mallet at the French-Icelandic symposium on green hydrogen

Green hydrogen : Qair at French Iceland Symposium

Qair Group presented on November 12, 2021 its green hydrogen activities during the green hydrogen symposium co-organized by the French Senate‘s France/Northern Europe interparliamentary friendship group and the Franco-Icelandic Chamber of Commerce, and in the presence the Icelandic president, the Icelandic ambassador and Icelandic and French ministers. Watch the replay of the intervention of Tryggvi […]
2021.11.08

Qair at Dakar International Mining Conference

Meet us at the International Mining Conference held in Dakar, Senegal, from November 2 to 4, to discuss the decarbonization of the mining sector in West Africa. “The energy transition is global, states throughout the world are including the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions at the center of their public policies.     Encouraging this impulse, industrial players are answering the call […]
2021.11.01

Qair completes the construction of the Serra do Mato Hybrid Complex in Brazil

On October 28th, the assembly of the last tower of the Serra do Mato wind project, located in Trairi, in the state of Ceará, was completed. The complex now consists of 29 V150 / 4.2MW wind turbines, totalizing 121.8 MW of installed power capacity. The turbines were assembled in record time thanks to synchronized team […]
2021.10.10

2 first solar projects out of a total of 10 approved in Brazil

These two units of 48.11 MW pave the way to a 440MW solar complex in Icó Qair plans to build a solar complex in the state of Ceará, Brazil, wich will eventually consist of ten plants totaling 440 MW. Its first two units of 48.11 MW each have been approved in the last auction of […]
2021.10.08

Make It Happen In Africa : Qair and STOA join forces around MIHIA, an investment platform dedicated to renewable energy projects in Africa, and announce a first project in Burkina Faso

Ouagadougou, October 8, 2021 – The independent producer of renewable energy Qair and STOA, the investment holding company created by the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), have announced the launch of a joint investment platform, MIHIA Holding (Make It Happen In Africa), in which they respectively hold […]
2021.09.23

Floating offshore wind: TotalEnergies, Green Investment Group and Qair join forces to bid for the Southern Brittany tender

Lorient, 23 September 2021 – A consortium of TotalEnergies, Green Investment Group (GIG) and Qair has been pre-selected by the Direction Générale de l’Energie et du Climat (“DGEC”) to participate in an upcoming competitive tender for the development of a floating wind farm of up to 270 MW in Southern Brittany. Through the tender, the […]
2021.09.13

DEME, Qair, and Aspiravi to bid into Scottish offshore wind leasing round

Aberdeen, 13 September 2021 – Thistle Wind Partners (TWP), a consortium composed of DEME Concessions NV, Qair Marine SAS, and Aspiravi International NV, has revealed its participation in Crown Estate Scotland’s ScotWind seabed leasing process. TWP will bring together its partners’ solid experience in similar offshore wind developments, characterised by fast-track delivery, stakeholder involvement, and […]
2021.07.21

Qair and infrastructure debt funds managed by Brookfield Asset Management sign PLN 85m mezzanine facility in Poland

Qair Polska and infrastructure debt funds managed by Brookfield Asset Management executed the eight-year facility agreement with total value of PLN 85m to finance the portfolio of 4 onshore wind and 29 solar power plants totaling 106 MW. The facility will be subordinated and supplementary to the PLN 479m senior loan agreement signed earlier this […]
2021.07.07

Qair wins new RES Auction with 72MW of PV projects in Poland

Efforts from Qair’s polish teams were rewarded in the June 2021 RES Auction in which 1260 projects participated in the below 1 MW basket, and over 88 in the above 1MW basket, securing CfD contracts for 10 PV projects totaling 72 MW. Among other projects, Qair’s Kalisz Pomorski 60MW PV project and Stoszowice 6MW PV […]
2021.03.15

Qair commissions first private solar power plant in Morocco

Inaugurated by Nestlé Morocco, on February 16, 2021 by Moroccan Minister of Energy, Mines and the Environment Aziz Rabbah, the ground-based photovoltaic plant is installed on site at the Nestlé factory in El Jadida. A project initiated in 2020 Signed in July 2020, the project took off the following August with the construction of the […]
Qair turbine on Serrote wind park
2021.01.27Qair turbine on Serrote wind park

6 New Qair turbines approved on Serrote wind park, Brazil

The Brazilian National Electric Energy Agency (Aneel) has cleared the commercial operation of six new wind turbines on the EOL Serrote solar and wind park. These wind turbines add to those already in service in the park. Owned by Qair Brasil, they are located in Trairi, approximately 78.9 miles away from Fortaleza, the capital city […]
2021.01.08

In Italy, Qair completes applications to obtain permits for 500 MW of solar projects.

Located in South-Eastern Sicily, these projects allow Qair to consolidate a 1 GW portfolio of projects in Italy, representing the power supply of more than 500,000 homes. This allows Qair to position itself as a major player in renewable energies in Italy. With a close-knit and experienced team in Italy, the company has teamed up […]
2020.12.17

Commissioning of 2 x 8,8 MW Wind Power Plants in Poland

Września and Parzęczew Power Plants, of capacity 17,6 MW (2 x 8,8 MW), are located in Wielkopolskie and Łódzkie provinces, Poland. The projects were awarded during the 2018 RES Auction and consist of 8 turbines. These achievements will be followed by the commissiong in 2021 of the 50,6 MW Udanin wind farm in Lower Silesia, […]
2020.12.11

In Brazil Solar and Wind Complex enters the commissioning phase

In Brazil Qair celebrates an important achievement of its Serrote Wind and Solar Complex, located in the State of Ceará. The complex already has 26 commissioned wind turbines, showing a fast and successful progress of the project. Altogether there will be 49 turbines with installed capacity of 205MW in their first phase, built in partnership […]
2020.10.07

Renewables: Eolmed, Qair’s Mediterranean Floating Wind Farm Project, Welcomes Total as New Shareholder

Montpellier and Paris, October 7th, 2020 Invited by Qair, majority shareholder and historical developer of the project, Total has just subscribed to a capital increase to hold a 20% stake in the Eolmed floating wind farm pilot project located in the Occitanie region, off the coast of Gruissan and near Port-La-Nouvelle. Together with Qair and […]