Solarexpo’s Numbers Confirm It As Italy’s Top Trade Fair

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The 2009 edition of Solarexpo – the international exhibition and conference on renewable energy and distributed generation to be held at the Verona Exhibition Centre, Italy, on 7-9 May 2009 – will cover nine exhibition halls, compared with six last year and three in 2007. It will boast three entrances, 80,000 square metres of exhibition space and more than 1,000 direct exhibitors and brands represented, with 35% of the total coming from 27 different countries beyond Italy's borders. About 60,000 trade visitors are expected to attend, mostly comprised of industry operators, businesspeople, engineers, installers, researchers and representatives of the scientific community.

"Solarexpo has seen 200% growth in just three years, " explained Sara Quotti Tubi, director of the event. "Hard facts such as these – and not just words – make Solarexpo the undisputed leader among Italian trade fairs in renewables."

Among this year's innovations will be an outdoors exhibition space of 8,000 square metres, featuring a distinctive layout where various renewable energy technologies will be on display, including solar trackers.

All the world's leading brands from the photovoltaic and solar thermal sectors will be present at Solarexpo: the PV industry will be represented by Sharp, BP Solar, Schüco, Mitsubishi, Q-Cells, Suntech and, last but not least, First Solar; leading names in solar thermal such as Ariston, Baxi, Wagner & Co., Paradigma and Sonnenkraft, among others, have all confirmed their presence.

Solarexpo's success can in part to be attributed to the particularly positive trend in the renewable energy sector, which is flourishing in this period despite the poor performance of the world economy. But it's above all due to the excellence of services on offer, the high quality of visitors in attendance and the high level of its conference programme.

On this last front, Solarexpo will open this year with the Italian PV Summit, Italy's first international event on solar photovoltaics especially conceived for the business and financial communities. More than 50 speakers, including the CEOs of the most important companies in the worldwide photovoltaic industry and representatives of associations and institutions, are lined up for a two-day event that promises to become a reference point for the Italian PV sector.

Attention will also be dedicated to solar thermal with four important appointments for this sector: the 10th national conference on solar thermal ("Solar Thermal Policy"); an international conference on "Solar Cooling"; an event on "Solar thermal for process heat in the food industry" and a specialisation course in "Solar thermal large scale & solar cooling".

Solarexpo is confirmed as the reference event in Italy and one of the most prestigious at a European level for the renewable energy sector: a position achieved through 10 years of experience and exchange with the renewables market.

Solarexpo will coincide again in 2009 with Greenbuilding, the international exhibition and conference on energy efficiency and sustainable architecture, as a way to continue offering the most complete overview of products, technologies and solutions related to renewables and energy efficiency.

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