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Intersolar North America Brings Global Business-to-Business Leaders to San Francisco

Posted on: Tuesday, 14 July 2009, 13:00 CDT

SAN FRANCISCO, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Intersolar North America, the most diverse global business-to-business exhibition in the United States dedicated to the transformation of the solar marketplace, today opened its doors to a registered 17,000 attendees. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom joins more than 170 conference speakers at 25 conference tracks, to discuss market trends and issues facing the solar industry such as reaching grid parity, federal and state policies, emerging and existing technology innovations and the growth opportunities in the North American market.

"We are happy to host Intersolar North America in San Francisco, which is proud to be a leader in clean technology development," said Mayor Newsom. "Intersolar provides our local and global solar businesses with the opportunity to further develop the state of the solar market, making clean energy an achievable goal for us all."

Co-located with SEMICON West and co-organized with PV Group, the global photovoltaic initiative of SEMI, Intersolar North America presents more than 560 solar exhibitors at both locations from 23 countries worldwide. This week's events are designed to facilitate international connections between solar companies from all areas of the supply chain that make up the $50 billion international solar industry.

Intersolar North America sees triple growth in one year

Earlier this year, the growing demand in booth sales prompted organizers to open another level in Moscone West, tripling the size of last year's exhibition and bringing the 2009 total floor space to approximately 120,000 net square feet, accommodating 444 international exhibitors at Moscone West Hall alone. Growth and development themes carry over into the 30 Innovation Exchange presentations which take place throughout the week as well, highlighting new and emerging technologies, training programs for solar jobs and growing solar businesses in the U.S. and worldwide.

"Both the exhibition and conference have grown faster than we ever imagined in just two years," said Professor Eicke R. Weber, Intersolar North America Committee Chairman and Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Freiburg, Germany. "With so many critical issues facing the solar industry today, the economy included, Intersolar North America provides companies an opportunity to learn from each other and connect to grow their own businesses."

About Intersolar North America

Intersolar North America is the most diverse international business-to-business trade show in the United States for the global solar industry. As the only solar trade show in North America dedicated to recruiting companies across the solar supply chain from around the world, Intersolar helps the industry improve global supply, distribution, training, regulation and business issues in order to accelerate market transformation and advance solar as a significant part of the global energy supply. Intersolar North America 2009 alone features 444 exhibitors and more than 17,000 registered trade visitors in San Francisco's Moscone Center West on July 14-16. Intersolar North America was created in 2008 as a sister event to Intersolar in Munich, the world's largest and longest-running solar technology trade show. Intersolar North America is organized by Solar Promotion International GmbH and Freiburg Management and Marketing International (FMMI) GmbH and is co-organized by the SEMI PV Group. http://www.intersolar.us/

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