LCAB - Local Content Assurance Bureau

Local Content Assurance Bureau Inc. certifies GP Joule’s ground mount racking system (with

Habdank technology) as CORE Domestic Content compliant in Ontario

Toronto, ON -- (February 13, 2012) – The Local Content Assurance Bureau Inc. ("LCAB") announced today that it has issued a formal CORE certification to GP JOULE PV Canada Corp. ("GP Joule") for the production of its ground mount racking system that is using the technology of Habdank PV-mounting systems.  This comes after a further rigorous and independent review of GP Joule´s supply chain, manufacturing facilities and products. The CORE certification demonstrates that the GP Joule mounting system is produced in compliance with its domestic content requirements.

Following their CORE certification pre-qualification last fall, GP Joule went forth and produced their first system for installation in an Ontario FIT Project. This first order was produced according to the pre-qualified supply-chain validated in September 2011. Based on its further audit and analysis, LCAB can say with confidence that GP Joules’ operations and contracted supply chain for the production of their ground mount racking system fulfill, in our opinion, the domestic content requirements set forth in the FIT Program, specifically with regards to activity 6 of Table 2 and Table 4 as well as activity 4 of Table 3.

“We are very happy to announce that GP Joule has once again passed through our formal verification procedure said Etienne Lecompte, Managing Director of LCAB. “GP Joule has taken a very diligent approach in establishing traceability and compliance within its’ whole supply-chain which our audit brought to light. We are proud to have followed the first order of a GP Joule system throughout their supply chain and look forward to see more succesful installs in Ontario.”

About the CORE Program

LCAB’s Contributor to Ontario Renewable Energy Program (CORE Program) is an industry led, voluntary certification process developed to help Ontario manufacturers, suppliers, professional services firms, and individuals meet domestic content requirements set out by the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) in the OPA’s Feed-In Tariff Program (FIT Program).

For more information, please contact: 

Etienne Lecompte – Managing Director

Local Content Assurance Bureau Inc.

Phone:  1-800-985-5929 x 100

Email: elecompte@lcab.ca

About GP JOULE PV Canada Corp.

GP JOULE PV Canada Corp, headquartered in Mississauga, specializes in the profitable use of renewable energy, and to this end develops, designs, builds and finances PV projects, from which customers will benefit for a long time to come. GP Joule´s solutions make it possible to transform land into large sundrenched expanses, producing environmentally-friendly electricity. As a system integrater operating worldwide, GP Joule and their partner Habdank for the ground mount racking system, a company with nine decades of experience in the steel and metal construction sector, are now in a position to provide services for the entire PV supply chain and the entire life cycle of PV installations, engineered in Germany, from a single provider and with the experience of over 200MW turn-key PV projects and more than 600MW installed ground mount racking systems worldwide. For further information please contact us at: info@gp-joule.ca or visit our website www.gp-joule.ca.