Qualitas Energy, a global investment and management platform focused on renewable energy, energy transition, and sustainable infrastructure investment, announced today the appointment of Johannes Overbeck as Co-CEO for its German business, effective January 1, 2025. He will serve alongside Borja Caruana.

In 2024, Qualitas Energy successfully achieved its investment targets, expanding its development pipeline to a total capacity of 3 GW alongside managing over 100 projects across Germany. Building on this success, the natural evolution of Qualitas Energy’s German leadership structure is a strategic step to support its growth trajectory in the years ahead, while strengthening all key areas and ensuring the delivery of continued value and results.

Johannes Overbeck, who joined Qualitas Energy in August 2023 as Head of Investment, will assume the responsibility for the areas of Investment, Structured Finance, Finance, and Legal. Borja Caruana, CEO of the German business since 2021, will continue to focus on the following departments: Project Development, EPC, Operations, and Corporate Services.

Looking ahead to 2025, Qualitas Energy is poised to achieve decisive progress, focusing on securing approvals and initiating construction for multiple projects. At the same time, the company is intensifying efforts to expand its project pipeline, targeting a total capacity of 4 GW in the German wind energy sector. This ambitious growth is supported by its flagship fund, Qualitas Energy Fund V, which closed in 2022 with 2.4 billion euros.

Qualitas Energy’s German business, a subsidiary of the Qualitas Energy Group, specializes in the acquisition, financing, project development, construction, and operation of onshore wind turbines, with a mission to drive the transition to decarbonization. The company boasts a team of over 250 employees operating across six strategic locations in Germany: Berlin, Hamburg, Wiesbaden, Trier, Cologne, and Stuttgart.

About Qualitas Energy
Qualitas Energy is a leading global investment and management platform with a dual focus on both funding and developing renewable energy, energy transition, and sustainable infrastructure. Since 2006, the Qualitas Energy team has dedicated over €14 billion to the energy transition worldwide. These investments have been deployed through five vehicles: Fotowatio / FRV, Vela Energy, Qualitas Energy III, Qualitas Energy IV, and Qualitas Energy V. Qualitas Energy’s existing portfolio currently comprises over 11 GW of operating and development energy assets across Spain, Germany, the UK, Italy, Poland, Chile, and the United States. This includes 7 GWp of solar PV, 4 GW of wind energy, 242 of concentrated solar power (CSP) assets, 136 MW of battery storage, 66 MW of hydroelectric power, and 1.9 TWh of biomethane. Qualitas Energy has produced enough energy to supply 1.2 million homes and has successfully avoided the emission of 1 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent since 2022. The Qualitas Energy team is composed of more than 540 professionals across fifteen offices in Madrid, Berlin, London, Milan, Hamburg, Wiesbaden, Trier, Cologne, Stuttgart, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Santiago, Durham, Bristol, and Edinburgh.