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6-8 April 2009 Sofia, Bulgaria

N E X T E V E N T

14-16 April 2010, Inter Expo Center, Sofia, Bulgaria

M e d i a S p o n s o r s :

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P O S T E V E N T R E P O R T

GERMANY STRATEGIC PARTNER

AUSTRIA FOCUS COUNTRY

5th

International Congress & Exhibitionfor South-East Europe

Energy Efficiency&

Renewable Energy Sources


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CONGRESS SPEAKERS

During the 3 days of the Congress presentations were

made by 43 speakers from Austria, Bulgaria, Czech

Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Serbia, Spain,

The Netherlands, Turkey and UK. Big interest and discus-

sions provoked the following panels:

EE&RES Federation and Networking in South-East

Europe.

Till now the Federation has been supported by

Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Romania and Serbia.

Austria has been invited to be also a member.

Solar Parks bigger than 1 MW (The Lesson learned in

Germany and Spain, Plans for South-East Europe)

Problems for Grid RES Connection in SE Europe

Wind Energy experience in SE Europe

Parallel to the Congress ORGALIME and CENELEC

organized the Workshop ELECTRA Doing Business with

Energy Efficiency.

CONGRESS PARTNERS

The Congress was supported by the European Commis-

sion, European PV Industry Association, Bayern Innova-

tiv, German and Austrian Embassies, Austrian Federal

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water

Management, Sofia Municipality, Atlantic Club in Bulgaria,

Austrian Energy Agency.

CONGRESS ATTENDEES

The forum was attended by more than 400 industryspecialists from 28 countries: Austria, Belgium, Bos-

nia and Herzegovina, Bulgaia, Canada, Croatia, Czech

Republic, Denmark, France, FYROMacedonia, Germany,

Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, lreland, Norway, Poland,

Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland,

Turkey, UK, and USA.

Despite of the current economic crisis, the development of the energy sector is growing up. The EE & RES

Congress and Exhibition in 2009 reinforced its position as the leading technology and marketing event for

South-East Europe as the number of the exhibitors has doubled in comparison with 2008.

CONGRESS

BREAKDOWN BY POSITION BREAKDOWN BY TOP 5 BRANCHES

Executive

Management

RES EE Consultant

services

Power

Engineering

FinancingSales &

Marketing

Technical

and legal

consultants

Media

59% 36%

12%

9% 9%7%

18%15%

5%

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Excellent organization, interesting lecturers and very attrac-

tive exhibition.

Bojan Kovacic, Serbian Energy Agency

The congress was very successful, well organized with good

speakers and audience.

Viki Georgakopoulou, Greek Ministry of Development

Impressive number of participants at the Congress and Ex-

hibition!

Alexander Zachariou, Solar Cells Hellas, Greece

Thank you for the perfect event.

Dean Marcelja, ECRE Guessing, Austria

Through the exhibition we succeeded to present our pro-

ducts to the clients by the best possible way. There was

very big media interest due to which the forum attracted

big number of highly specialized experts and businessmen.

The event was extremely good organized in details so that

to make both the exhibitors and visitors feel comfortable.

Sevatech SWT, Bulgaria

Very good organization. We will take part in 2010 again!

Amandus Kahl, Germany

The exhibition organization was perfect. I do believe we will

work in the future again!

Mila Babacheva, American Way, Bulgaria

As a tradition the Congress strategic partner is Germany.

The congress as well as the exhibition have covered all

types of renewable energy, so this event is a major step in

promoting alternative sources of energy. All exhibitors at the

German pavilion benefited from the huge interest this event

created. For sure, we will come back next year

Torsten Fuhrberg, MCO GmbH, Germany

The contacts we had were very concrete. We got many

inquiries from Municipalities (for district heating plants

working with biomass) and Technical Agencys. So wewere satisfied with the quality of the visitors.

Thomas Hofmann, POLYTECHNIK GmbH, Austria

This year the country of focus was Austria. Active part for

recruiting Austrian participants took the Austrian Energy

Agency and the Austrian trade section to the embassy

in Bulgaria. Mr Angerer the Commercial Counsellor

at the Austrian Embassy in Sofia said I am pleased to

tell you that the comments were very good. The Austrian

companies appreciated that the EE & RES exhibition was

specialized and attracted only visitors with concrete inter-

est in these topics. I was positively mentioned as well thatthe fair was relatively short 3 days and therefore not

so time consuming. We believe that we will be able to

attract more Austrian participants for the next fair sched-

uled for April 2010.

EE & RES is developing better and better in this part of Eu-

rope, even in a year of crisis. The strategic partnership with

the more advanced EU member states, particularly with Ger-

many, and the know-how transfer helps a lot to accelerate

the EE & RES development in South-East Europe. The Con-

gress efforts to network the experts gives its first positive

results and we are happy for the foundation of the EE & RES

Federation for SE Europe in 2009. The unification will help

the Region to move faster forward. Energy Efficiency needsan improvement in all South-East European countries and

Solar, Wind, Bio and Geo are trendy already in all of them.

V.P. Koch, Gate East, Germany

TESTIMONIALS




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NATIONAL CHAMBER

OF ELECTRICAL

ENGINEERING

IN BULGARIA

M e d i a P a r t n e r s

W i t h t h e s u p p o r t o f K n o w - H o wT r a n s f e r

O f f i c i a l C a r r i e rT e c h n i c a l E q u i p m e n t R e n t a l

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UTILITIESMagazine

Bulgarian

124 Exhibitors

Growth of the Exhibitors number2009 90 %

2008 27%

2007

3219 visitors from Bulgaria, Austria, UK, Belgium, Bosnia &

Herzegovina, Brazil, Germany, Greece, Israel, India, Ireland,

Spain, Italy, China, Latvia, FYROMacedonia, UAE, Poland,

Portugal, Rumania, Russia, USA, Slovenia, Serbia, Turkey,

Ukraine, Hungary, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Croatia,

Czech Republic, Switzerland, Japan.

TOP 5 VISITORS ACTIVITIES

Construction

Power Engineering

Trade, Production and Consulting

Energy Saving Technologies and Products

InvestmentOver 60% of the visitors were decision makers and approx.

31% technical, consultant and sales specialists.

The main conclusion of the 5th Congress was that the

Region of South-East Europe is too much behind the

rest of Europe concerning the development of EE &

RES market. So the governmental authorities, public sector

and the business must be more active for creating new busi-

ness opportunities and smart energy consumption, new high

tech jobs and new level of the education. The participants

hope the next years will be the time of Eco-Tech expansion

in South-East Europe.

The Focus country for 2010 will be Italy. Germany will be

again the strategic partner of the event.

The Congress will add also a new hot topic to its program

efficient electro-mobility and solar mobile systems.

You are most welcome to participate at the6th International EE & RES Congress and Exhibition

for South-East Europe 14-16 April 2010!

EXHIBITION

SOFIA MUNICIPALITY

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTUREAND FOOD, BULGARIA Garching b. Muenchen, Germany

ATIONAL CHAMBER

OF ELECTRICAL

NGINEERING

N BULGARIA

M e d i a P a r t n e r s

i t h t h e s u p p o r t o f K n o w - H o wT r a n s f e r

O f f i c i a l C a r r i e rT e c h n i c a l E q u i p m e n t R e n t a l

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TILITIESMagazine

Bulgarian

SOFIA MUNICIPALITY

INISTRY OF AGRICULTUREAND FOOD, BULGARIA

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