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“ It is truly exciting to be in partnership with a large, successful company like Iberdrola to enter the Spanish market. Spain has all the fundamentals we look for, renewable energy in particular is a key part of that. To enter that market alongside a partner of Iberdrola’ s scale and credibility is genuinely exciting, as we will benefit from the support of their team. I think it is worth stressing that this is a direct expression of our power-first strategy. In this case, we have quite literally partnered with an electricity organisation to develop these projects together,” Simon ends.
Echelon is operating in one of the most capitalintensive, technically demanding and fastmoving sectors in the world, and doing so with a clarity of purpose that is not always easy to maintain at this scale. Its powerfirst strategy, involvement in the County Wicklow regeneration project, partnership with Iberdrola and the € 1.7 billion Morgan Stanley loan all show one of the company’ s core convictions: that the infrastructure supporting the digital economy needs to be built properly, powered responsibly and developed with the communities it touches in mind.
With a significant and sizeable pipeline and expansion moving across four markets simultaneously, Echelon is poised to get
busier and keep growing as time goes on. However, no matter how many projects it is working on simultaneously, the company seems determined to grow without cutting corners, which is rarer than it should be in this ever-evolving industry. ■
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