The Solar Future: India 2011 To Chart Roadmap For India's Emergence As a Solar Superpower

Online, January 13, 2011 (Newswire.com) - The Solar Future: India 2011 to chart roadmap for India's emergence as a Solar Superpower

Latest updates on National Solar Mission, focus on 3 states leading the solar movement, discussions on how to ensure solar/PV takes off big in India & more at this one of a kind international two day conference

New Delhi, January 13, 2010: The Solar Future: India 2011, the debut two-day international solar/PV conference organized by SOLARPLAZA, a leading international knowledge platform and event organizers in Solar in association with Solar Energy Society of India (SESI), is focusing on charting a clear path for India to become a Solar Superpower. Elevating the event from another industry get together to being one that will bring in a unique mixture of international experts, key policy decision makers at the state and central governments and the who's who of Indian solar industry to discuss and input on this vision. To be held over the 24th and 25th of January at The Grand, New Delhi, the conference is the first of the major initiatives planned by SOLARPLAZA for the Indian market.

According to Edwin Koot, CEO, SOLARPLAZA and Chairman, The Solar Future India 2011, "India's expertise in R & D, Engineering and Project Management will bring the raw material and technology costs down significantly over the next few years. These, aided by robust support from the Indian Government through the National Solar Mission and further push by state governments through their own add-on policies and initiatives, make India an attractive destination and is likely to bring in new investments in the space. We felt the 'The Solar Future: India 2011' will focus on charting a path to India becoming a solar superpower like Germany, Spain and Japan. The country is currently meeting the bulk of its peak power requirements through diesel-based power and can be replaced with solar power soon, with sun's energy being most predictable and available in abundance here".

Top speakers at the event include; Debashish Majumdar - the Chairman and Managing Director of the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA), Mario Zen Vice President of LDK Solar, the world's largest vertically integrated manufacturer and Jigar Shah, visionary solar expert and founder of SunEdison and now CEO of the Carbon War Room'. Other experts scheduled to speak at the event include S.K. Shakula, the Head Solar and Director of the Chhattisgarh State Renewable Energy Development Agency (CREDA), AES Solar Energy Managing Director Srinivas Nagabhirava, KfW Bank Project Manager Ramana Reddy, M.M. Vijayvargiya the Technical Director of Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation (RREC), V.H. Buch Director of the Gujarat Energy Development Agency (GEDA), Orb Energy CEO Damian Miller, Photon Energy CEO Gautham Nalamada and Pashupathy Gopalan, the Head of Indian Operations for SunEdison and MEMC among others.

Plenary sessions will be held focusing on - PV Project Development in India, The Potential for Non-Ground Based PV Application, PV power plant development in India, Can India become a solar industry leader? What is needed to make financing of power plants easier? and The Solar Future of India - new Solar Superpower? etc.

Some of the key topics being presented across the two days include among others:
• The international expert: How to build a successful solar PV company
• The supply chain expert: How Much Cheaper Will Solar PV Modules Become in the Coming Years?
• The Indian Government: The Status and Latest Information about the National Solar Mission
• Gujarat: Why it will be the new solar super State of India?
• Rajasthan: Why the sunny State is becoming a booming market?
• West Bengal: Incentives, experiences and market opportunities in West Bengal
• The residential developer: Challenges and opportunities in the Indian Off-grid solar PV market
• The contractor: The Future of Off-grid Solar Power
• The power plant expert: Opportunities and legal aspects of large scale PV Project Development in India
• The Solar Service Provider: How solar power plants can be privately financed in India?
• The turnkey factory supplier: What does it take and offer building a Thin-Film Module Factory?
• The turnkey factory provider: From Silicon to Modules: What Does it Take to Start Your Own Vertically Integrated PV Factory?
• The Indian Energy utility: What are the Experiences with PPA Contracts?
• The Developer: Financing of large scale solar energy projects
• The Indian Banker: Financing Experiences of a PV Power Plant in India
• The Financial Enabler: How Can the World Bank support Very Large PV Power Project Developments?
• The visionary architect: How to build a 'City of the Sun' in India

About The Solar Future: "The Solar Future" is an international conference organized by Solarplaza.com, that offers a great platform for high-level networking among the stakeholders of the solar/PV industry that is poised to create over US$50 billion dollars in annual revenues by 2012. In the last 5 years, the event which is the flagship conference of SOLARPLAZA has been held in UK, Germany, Netherlands and France. "The Solar Future" PV conferences worldwide have been most successful with their large scale presentation, besides delivering significantly high value for the local solar/PV industry. For more information on the conference, please visit, www.thesolarfuture.in. Solar Plaza is offering special rates for Indian companies to participate in the Conference. To learn more on this offer, you may email to [email protected]

About SOLARPLAZA: SOLARPLAZA International is a Netherlands-based firm founded by Edwin Koot, a senior PV expert with over 16 years of experience working in the solar/PV industry. The organization's mission is to work towards empowering the solar future across the globe. Solarplaza has been a leader with global level events and trade missions since 2004. Solarplaza.com is the independent global platform for knowledge, trade and events for the solar/PV industry. The services of SOLARPLAZA include organizing of international solar PV trade missions, solar PV expert conferences, providing a trade platform, connecting manufacturers and investors with solar PV developers besides offering strategic consultancy. SOLARPLAZA has organized more than 20 International PV Trade Missions and Solar PV Conferences in China, Spain, Italy, Greece, California, Taiwan and India, since its inception. For more information, please visit, www.solarplaza.com
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