At the end of February 2020, Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was invited by the Swiss government for a state visit. On the guest list for the gala dinner in the Bernerhof was also the CEO of Upwind Konikablo Ltd., Dr. Christoph Kapp.
At the end of January 2020, the preliminary geological survey in the Konikablo Wind Farm project area was carried out. The specialised company Grundbauberatung-Geoconsulting AG investigated the soil properties and installed sensors for groundwater measurement. The investigation provides first important information on the soil properties and helps to determine the location of the individual wind turbines and the dimensioning of their foundations.
At the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, business leaders, international political leaders, economists and other opinion leaders come together in order to discuss issues of global concerns such as globalization, climate change, wealth management and also environmental problems and their possible solution.
ENERCON and NEK meet Ghana's President on the occasion of the "Compact with Africa" Summit in Berlin
On the sidelines of the Compact with Africa Conference initiated by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and held in Berlin on 19th November 2019, a meeting took place between representatives of the German wind turbine manufacturer Enercon GmbH, the wind project developer NEK from Switzerland and high-ranking representatives of the Ghanaian government.
At the ECOWAS Sustainable Energy Forum that took place in the Kempinski Hotel in Accra between the 22nd and 24th of October 2019, NEK Umwelttechnik AG has signed with ECREEE a future-oriented Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding Upwind's Wind Energy pipeline in Ghana.
Following the signing of the land lease agreement and the recent cadastral survey of the northern part of the Konikablo project area, Upwind recently managed to successfully complete the title registration process of the respective lease and was awarded with the title certificate.