Italy’s most essential occasion for renewable power occurred final week in Rimini with a 41% enhance in guests and about 30% progress within the variety of taking part manufacturers. This displays the sustained progress of the Italian PV sector and likewise underscores the enlargement of the commerce present, which is now Europe’s second-largest PV occasion after Germany’s SmarterE – Intersolar.
From pv journal Italy
The Italian Exhibition Group (IEG) has revealed that the numbers of its KEY – The Power Transition Expo commerce present, which was held final week in Rimini, Italy – has exceeded all expectations. The occasion concluded with a 41% enhance in whole attendance from 2023, with the worldwide presence rising by 60% – solidifying the occasion’s standing as an internationally acknowledged commerce truthful.
All main producers of PV modules and inverters, each Italian and worldwide, showcased their stands in seven pavilions on the present. The occasion spanned 65,000 m2 and featured a 30% enhance in exhibiting manufacturers, totaling 830 corporations, with 35% from overseas. It coated 16 pavilions, 4 greater than in 2023, and hosted 120 conferences within the Expo Middle pavilions.
The big variety of Asian exhibitors underscored the occasion’s significance as a number one commerce truthful for Italian and European photovoltaics, rating second in Europe after Intersolar in Munich, Germany.
“I spoke constantly for 3 days and located loads of curiosity in power communities. Just a few days in the past the working guidelines of the Italian power company Gestore dei Servizi Energetici (GSE) had been printed, with some factors that weren’t very clear and comprehensible, however the GSE itself organized in-depth classes in the course of the truthful and we now hope to have all of the solutions,” mentioned Valerio Natalizia, CEO of SMA Italy, the Italian unit of German inverter producer SMA. “We now have seen loads of consideration on storage, particularly for industrial and industrial roofs and an elevated curiosity within the utility scale. This truthful is the litmus take a look at that every part goes in the fitting course and we’re additionally assured within the interventions of an industrial incentive coverage to guard European producers.”
Fabio Ottavi – basic supervisor of Sonnen Italia, the Italian subsidiary of German battery producer Sonnen – mentioned that the commerce truthful went effectively.
“I contemplate this market response shocking, now within the means of adjusting after the top of the Superbonus. It’s subsequently formally a second of relaunch, not so apparent,” he advised pv journal Italy. “I am going to draw a parallel: when the inducement scheme Conto Energia ended, the sector truthful, SolarExpo, moved from Verona to Milan, with a really disappointing consequence: a pavilion occupied with round 40 stands, with a really excessive proportion of exhibitors on the earth of electrical vehicles. As a substitute, right here I see a want to begin once more and particularly within the C&I phase which is arousing loads of curiosity. And that is additionally why we introduced and devoted the stand above all to a brand new product of this sort. We now have additionally seen this amongst our rivals: loads of supply and a spotlight to options for the industrial and industrial sectors.”
Elena Marchitelli, advertising supervisor for AIKO, a Chinese language panel producer, mentioned the present provided an essential alternative to current the model to the Italian public.
“It is good to have the ability to hear the optimistic suggestions up shut and witness the numerous requests for additional data from the publicm” mentioned Marchitelli. “The affluence was very excessive, with guests tremendous excited by understanding extra concerning the merchandise.”
Simone Motta, vendor supervisor of Italian distributor Sacchi Elettroforniture, famous the massive public turnout.
“The curiosity at our stand was not a lot in inverters, panels and storage, which could possibly be present in massive portions at this truthful, however in associated merchandise, subsequently the ability distribution half, together with the medium voltage substation,” he mentioned. “In a market the place residential will not be rising and the place the C&I half is rising, energy distribution merchandise are more and more elementary. This can be a nice curiosity that we anticipated, in addition to the customer’s consideration to the potential of contacting a single interlocutor, from the availability of the panel to the connection to the community.”
The guests had been principally filled with enthusiasm for the exhibition. Nonetheless, there was a small proportion of people that complained concerning the massive Asian presence at an Italian commerce truthful.
“We all know that many of the expertise is produced in China, however we anticipated an expo with extra space for European [products],” one attendee advised pv journal.
Christian Previati, exhibition supervisor for KEY, famous the presence of storage applied sciences, which crammed two complete pavilions.
“We consider there may be nonetheless vital margin for progress, particularly on massive storage techniques in direction of utility scale and C&I,” he advised pv journal Italy. “The subsequent version shall be held from March 5 to 7, 2025 – dates that may permit us to have all of the pavilions at our disposal, not like this 12 months. With the ability to have them doesn’t imply that we’ll robotically fill them. We plan to extend the variety of occupied pavilions and higher set up the longer term format. This 12 months, for instance, we needed to reject the final requests from corporations that wished to exhibit and we managed to fulfill among the extra requests by opening pavilion C1.”
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