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<\/a>\nAccording to\n<\/a>\nAccording to\n\na press release on their site:<\/a>\n\nRavensburg (Germany), 27th September 2010 \u2013 MAGE SOLAR, part of the\nglobally operating MAGE GROUP, in conjunction with Governor Sonny Perdue\nand the City of Dublin County of Laurens Development Authority, conducted\nits official ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday, September 22, 2010. The\nhighly anticipated event marked the company\u2019s official move of its new\nNorth American headquarters to Dublin, Georgia. Dr. Markus Feil, CEO of\nMAGE INDUSTRIE HOLDING AG headquartered in Germany; its Chairman of the\nBoard, Kurt Rauch, as well as CEO of MAGE SOLAR GMBH, Norbert Philipp,\nalso from Germany and other US company officials and employees of MAGE\nSOLAR, along with key community, political and a multitude of local,\nregional and international business leaders attended the momentous event.\n<\/blockquote>\nThat would be Dublin, with half the population of Valdosta, in Laurens County,\nwith half the population of Lowndes County.\n\n\n\nDr. Markus Feil noted that back in February of this year, when MAGE SOLAR\nofficials had the honor to present the project to Governor Perdue in\nAtlanta, he advised them to keep Georgia on their minds. \u201cGood advice”\naccording to Feil, who then pointed out that MAGE SOLAR not only kept\nGeorgia on its mind, but decided to call Georgia home.\n<\/blockquote>\nIn an earlier version, they have\n\na quote from DuBose Porter:<\/a>\n\nWe in Laurens County and in the City of Dublin are excited to partner\nwith MAGE SOLAR to become the center for renewable energy in our state\nand our country. —State Representative DuBose Porter\n<\/blockquote>\nHow big is it? Back to the press release:\n\nIt was in May of this year that the company announced its decision to\nset up the solar company\u2019s North American headquarters and production\nfacility for photovoltaic modules in Dublin, Georgia. In the meantime\nadministrative operations have been fully implemented and preparation for\nits production facility and training academy are underway. MAGE SOLAR\nwill invest $30 million to create 350 jobs within the next 5 years in\nthe city of Dublin in Laurens County.\n<\/blockquote>\nThat’s right, 350 jobs.\nNot initial construction jobs: ongoing jobs.\nAnd \nthey’re already hiring.<\/a>\n\nAnd how did that happen?\n
\n\u201cTo facilitate our continued growth, similar to what we have\naccomplished from our base in Germany in regards to our European\nexpansion, it is vital that we chose the right partners to accompany us\nalong the way. The leaders of Georgia and Dublin-Laurens made it clear\nthat they mean business. We are confident that this partnership will\nprosper for the benefit of all,\u201d said Norbert Philipp, CEO of MAGE\nSOLAR GMBH.\n<\/blockquote>\nHm, local leaders made it clear they mean business in real clean energy.\n\nAnd a training school:\n
\nThe MAGE SOLAR ACADEMY, initially scheduled for the fall of 2013 is now\nscheduled to open its doors in January of next year.\n<\/blockquote>\nWhat will it do? According to\n\na press release of May 17:<\/a>\n\nMAGE SOLAR also plans to build an academy for solar education to promote\nsolid solar knowledge and training in the industry.\n<\/blockquote>\nSolid solar knowledge about how to do it; not myths about how it can’t be done.\n\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a press release on their site: Ravensburg (Germany), 27th September 2010 \u2013 MAGE SOLAR, part of the globally operating MAGE GROUP, in conjunction with Governor Sonny Perdue and the City of Dublin County of Laurens Development Authority, conducted its official ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday, September 22, 2010. The highly anticipated event marked […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,15,558,267,23,24],"tags":[271,8704,8701,5218,847,276,8757,1026],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-education","category-germany","category-mage-solar","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","tag-dublin","tag-economy","tag-georgia","tag-hiring","tag-jobs","tag-laurens-county","tag-mage-solar","tag-photovoltaic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-Fo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}