At 9:00am today, the world’s largest exhibition for the solar industry reopened its doors at Messe München.
The event launched with the official ribbon cutting ceremony, attended by Jürgen Trittin, Chairman of the German Parliamentary Group Alliance 90/The Greens, Greg Barker, British Minister of State at the Department of Energy & Climate Change, and Jürgen Becker, State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). Accompanied by numerous journalists, the politicians then gained a direct insight into the solar industry’s innovative strength by taking an exhibition tour.A further highlight of the exhibition’s launch was Intersolar Europe’s General Session (inaugural event), which this year focused on the energy transition and the ensuing technological challenges. Jürgen Trittin and experts from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), Freiburg, and the German Solar Industry Association (BSW-Solar), Berlin, examined the current status and future of the energy transition, and discussed the role of solar energy from the perspective of politics, research and industry associations.