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From the 7th - 9th of May 2009 SOLAREXPO returns to Verona, Italy. Solarexpo tops the Italian ranking of exhibition events in the renewable energy sector and is among the leaders in Europe.
The international exhibition on renewable energy and distributed generation, will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year with a new international conference, the ITALIAN PV SUMMIT - seizing the opportunities of a record-setting market. 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.
Even this year Solarexpo will be in conjunction with GREENBUILDING - the international exhibition on energy efficiency and sustainable architecture.

The 2009 edition of Solarexpo 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."

The Italian PV Summit conference "will be of the highest technical and scientific quality and will be explicitly international in its scope," said Luca Zingale, Solarexpo's scientific director. "The Italian PV Summit, which aims to replicate the success of the national conference that has traditionally opened Solarexpo, will seek to establish itself from the outset as an authoritative reference event for all companies and investors, whether Italian or foreign, who care about the successful development of the Italian photovoltaic market."

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.
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".