Intersolar Europe 2011 achieves positive outcome
Intersolar Europe 2011 drew to a close with new records set for both exhibitor and visitor numbers. This year, 2 286 companies exhibited and presented their products and services to a total of 76 738 visitors at the world’s largest exhibition for the solar industry. The Intersolar Europe Conference and its side events, which ran parallel to the exhibition from June 6–10, 2011, attracted 2 543 attendees. However, even more important than the size of the exhibition is the great satisfaction shown by the exhibitors and visitors: 96% of exhibitors plan to participate again next year and 98% of visitors rated the exhibition as either “excellent” or “good”.
Alongside the long-running topics of “costs” and “efficiency”, in 2011 the exhibition focused on future issues affecting the industry. In a range of forums and special exhibitions such as the “PV Energy World”, Intersolar Europe spotlighted specific issues and potential solutions concerning grid integration, energy storage, e-mobility and many other topics.
Greater international representation
This year, 57% of companies exhibiting at Intersolar Europe came from outside Germany (2010: 53%). The event welcomed exhibitors from a total of 47 countries to Munich. The largest proportion of companies was from Germany, followed by China, Italy, Spain and Taiwan. The visitors came from 154 countries across the world (up 5% on last year). Accounting for 60% of the overall figure, visitors from Germany made up the largest contingent, followed by those from Italy, Austria, Switzerland and France. The fact that industry professionals made up 94% of the visitor numbers reaffirmed Intersolar Europe’s role as the world’s largest exhibition for the solar industry.
This year’s most-visited events were the “CEO Panel Discussion”, the sessions “PV Power Plants”, “Global Markets – Future Prospects” and “European Markets – Future Prospects”, and the “7th Advanced PV Manufacturing Forum”.
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