POST EVENT REPORT

5th International Congress & Exhibition

for South-East Europe

Energy Efficiency
&
Renewable Energy Sources
6-8 April 2009 • Sofia, Bulgaria

G E R M A N Y – ST RAT E G I C PAR T N E R
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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 SPEAKERS

During the 3 days of the Congress presentations were

made by 43 speakers from Austria, Bulgaria, Czech
CONGRESS
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 industry
specialists 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.

BREAKDOWN BY POSITION BREAKDOWN BY TOP 5 BRANCHES

59% 36%

12%
9% 9%
7%

18%
15%
5%

Executive Sales & Technical Media RES EE Consultant Power Financing

Management Marketing and legal services Engineering
consultants
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TESTIMONIALS
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
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The contacts we had were very concrete. We got many
inquiries from Municipalities (for district heating plants
working with biomass) and Technical Agency’s. So we
were 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 that
the 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 needs
an 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
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TOP 5 VISITORS ACTIVITIES

 Construction
 Power Engineering
 Trade, Production and Consulting
 Energy Saving Technologies and Products
 Investment
Over 60% of the visitors were decision makers and approx.
31% – technical, consultant and sales specialists.

T he 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-

EXHIBITION 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
124 Exhibitors in South-East Europe.
Growth of the Exhibitors number
2009 90 % The Focus country for 2010 will be Italy. Germany will be
2008 27% again the strategic partner of the event.
2007 The Congress will add also a new hot topic to its program –
efficient electro-mobility and solar mobile systems.
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.

You are most welcome to participate at the

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for South-East Europe – 14-16 April 2010!

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