Organized in collaboration with SOLARCON® India, the first ever Intersolar India in Hyderabad came to a close having proved a great success. Over 3,000 visitors to the three-day conference and accompanying trade fair gathered information on international trends and markets in the photovoltaics industry. The event focused in particular on the significance of the photovoltaics industry in India and local market developments.

Held from November 9 - 11, 2009, the conference attracted 645 participants and 45 speakers to Hyderabad in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. The organizers' expectations were also far exceeded with regard to the accompanying trade fair, which recorded a total of 2,500 visitors and 70 exhibitors, 17 of whom were from abroad. As a result, plans are in place to increasingly expand the trade fair from 2010 onward.

The event opened with a keynote speech from Prof. Dr. Eicke Weber, Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Freiburg, Germany. Among the guests present at the opening were Konijeti Rosaiah, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and K. Lakshmi Narayana, Minister of Heavy Industries in the host state's government, as well as Dr. Debesh Das, the Government of West Bengal's Minister of Information Technology.

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