More Than 160 Of The World’s Largest Solar Power Companies To Exhibit At World Future Energy Summit

Advanced solar technologies, materials and costs to form part of discussions at the Summit. Solar power could fulfil the annual output from 150 coal-fired power plants by 2025, a report by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association and Greenpeace predicts

Solar Power will feature significantly at the World Future Energy Summit that will begin next week on Monday January 18th, according to organisers.

More than 160 of the world’s largest Solar power companies to exhibit, including ABB, Suntech, GE Energy, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Brisban Solar, Azur Solar, SolarOne, Canadian Solar, Oerlikon Solar, BP Alternative Energy, Acciona, Yingli Green Energy, Solaria and Terna Energy.

Many of these solar companies will be located at the numerous country pavilions that will be present at the Summit, including the French, German, U.S. and Chinese pavilions and the U.K., South Korean, Swiss, Spanish, Greek, Danish, Dutch, Australian, Norwegian and Japanese pavilions among others.

Summit discussions will also cover solar energy in depth, and there will be a dedicated session on advanced solar technologies, materials and costs, which will feature speakers including Eicke Weber, Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Katrina Landis, Group Vice President of BP Alternative Energy, Shi Zhengrong, founder and CEO of Suntech Power

Global growth in the photovoltaics (PV) market is forecast to reach 46% in 2010, according to a report recently published by Bank Sarasin, under the title “Solar industry 2009: the first green shoots of recovery”.

A 2006 report by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association and Greenpeace1 revealed that solar energy could generate 2.5 percent of the world’s electricity by 2025. This means that enough solar power would be produced globally to satisfy the electricity needs of 20% of the entire EU-25. Put another way, this would represent the annual output from 150 coal-fired power plants. The report further went on to say that this could rise to 16 percent in 2040.
 

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