 EDITORIAL
Newsletter N°2 of the ENERGAÏA exhibition is packed with information and focuses primarily on the exhibition content (conferences and events) which offers a very rich and varied programme to examine the issues of the day, and quality speakers, who are well-known in their field and who will honour this important event with their contributions.
ENERGAÏA will bring together :
- Three cycles of international conferences organised by the Scientific Committee of ENERGAÏA or by one of its partners (Assembly of European Regions, FEDARENE, FuelCellEurope). At the same time, the exhibition Agora conference space has organised “installers’ days” with specific practical conferences.
- B2B meetings, with the International Business Forum (FIA), organised by Septimanie Export to enable national and international prescribers as well as exhibitors to hold discussions tailored and planned in accordance with their specific requirements.
- Specific “Training” sections in the field of renewable energies with the participation on booths of the major training organisations as well as a series of Agora conferences providing specific responses for all levels (technicians, university degrees, engineers…).
- Two competitions: the ENERGAÏA Competition, which is open to exhibitors, and will award prizes for innovations in 2007; and the CERVOD Competition, for trainers and project managers, and which will award prizes for innovative training tools.
- “Exhibitor Conferences”, for presenting their achievements.
And for entertainment, the ENERGAIA Gala Dinner, as well as various cocktail parties where partners, exhibitors and guests can meet, will be held.
“To offer professionals a high quality international event (more than 200 exhibitors from various countries), rich in innovation and content, to generate significant volumes of business, and also to offer the general public, on a particular dedicated day, as broad a range of information as possible… these are the objectives we have set ourselves, with the varied and active support of the Conseil Régional Languedoc-Roussillon, our partners and members of the Exhibition Organising Committee.
We invite you to ENERGAÏA 2007 and warmly welcome your participation as an exhibitor, visitor or participant to the conferences..."
François Barbance
Managing Director – Enjoy Montpellier |
Guy Haddad
Show & Conference Manager – UHK EXPO |
NEWS FROM THE EXHIBITION
| 1st International Business Forum (FIA) |
 B to B meetings on renewable energies
Organised by Septimanie Export, an international development agency based in the Languedoc-Roussillon Region, ENERGAÏA’s 1st International Business Forum will be held at the same time as the Exhibition.
Companies and organisations will be given the opportunity to introduce their innovations and solutions to a selection of French and International decision makers, prescribers and commercial and technical partners at various designated meetings.
This B to B forum is designed to develop significant volumes of business and to facilitate international expansion of companies. It is open to all companies in target countries (Morocco, Germany, Spain, Portugal, China, Middle-Eastern and North African countries...) interested in developing commercial and technological partnerships in the renewable energies sector.
“With the launch of the 1st International Renewable Energies Business Convention, we hope to intensify the international development of companies known to be dynamic and innovative.”
François Fourrier, Managing Director of Septimanie Export
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The Conference pre-programme is now available !
The ENERGAÏA exhibition will host 3 cycles of international conferences :
ENERGAÏA Conferences 2007 – 6 and Friday 7 December
“The role of Regions and Local Authorities in the development of Renewable Energies”
Organised by the Exhibition Scientific Committee, conference themes will focus on the various sectors of Renewable Energies and highlight their uses in the construction sector, in the decentralised electricity production (photovoltaic, wind power, etc.), in thermal energy use in the Regions (wood energy and solar power, etc.), as well as their technological prospects. Simultaneously held meeting will draw attention to the economic challenges for Mediterranean countries, with participants from the various Maghreb countries (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia and Middle East countries such as Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinian Authority (West Bank and Gaza Strip).
Download conference pre-programmes
FuelCellEurope Conference day – Thursday, 6 December
“Fuel cells - drivers of sustainable development in the regions”
European regions have a vital role to play in the development of fuel and hydrogen cells as energy production technologies. The FuelCellEurope Conference day, co-organised with the Assembly of European Regions, is designed to present and identify:
• Possibilities in terms of energy savings and renewable energies offered by fuel and hydrogen cell technologies
• Opportunities for concrete projects, for inter-regional cooperation and European funding for research, development and exhibiting.
Consult the conference’s pre-programme
FuelCellEurope is a European association of fuel cell manufacturers, energy producers and research centres, whose mission is to boost research, development and the widespread expansion of fuel cells. FuelCellEurope brings together 70 members from 10 EU countries.
Assembly of European Regions (AER) Conference day – Friday, 7 December
“Together for a sustainable future: the Regions’ commitment to the rational use of energy”
The AER Committee 1 is organising a Conference on energy efficiency on 7 December in Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon (F), in the framework of the Exhibition on Renewable energy sources organised by the Region. At the end of the Conference, a new official signing ceremony will be held, for the Regions having joined the AER-FEDARENE energy Declaration this year. You are all welcome to attend this Conference, for which a draft programme is now available under :
• Consult the conference’s pre-programme
• For more information on the AER-FEDARENE Declaration: “European Regions for energy efficiency and the development of renewable sources of energy.”
Agora : a conference space in the Exhibition Hall
Spotlight on installers
“Installers Days” will offer a conference cycle throughout the duration of the Exhibition and will provide concrete and practical answers to questions raised by installers (financing, prospects, quality certification, technologies...).
Training and renewable energies
Training Conferences organised by the University of Montpellier will address all aspects relating to mandatory qualifications and will examine the requirements. All levels of participant will attend, from basic technical training to universities.
News on exhibitors
Exhibitors Conferences will allow companies exhibiting at the ENERGAÏA Exhibition to present their latest innovations and solutions in the area of renewable energies and energy control.
General public
Conferences for non-specialists are designed to help the general public better understand renewable energies and how they work.
Conferences will be open to the general public on Saturday, 8 December.
Two competitions for renewable energies
The “Trophée ENERGAÏA Innovation 2007”
This prize will reward innovations of exhibiting manufacturers for 2007.
The “CERVOD Competition”
CERVOD will reward the efforts of trainers, project managers and university laboratories in the area of training tools. The prize-giving ceremony for these two competitions will take place during the Gala Dinner on Thursday, 6 December.
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Yves PIETRASANTA,
Vice-President of the Languedoc-Roussillon Region,
Responsible for the Environment, Sustainable Development and Renewable Energies
Former Member of the European Parliament
University Professor
As an elected regional representative, could you tell us how local regional authorities are relevant to the development of renewable energies ?
Energy policy, which results in the fight against greenhouse gases, and by extension, to the climate-related programmed that the Region is implementing, is currently one of the major themes of sustainable development.
Renewable energies needed to be moved away from the sidelines, as I’ve had occasion to note that, despite good intentions, whether from countries or even Europe itself, pressure groups – it could be said with well-established systems and well-placed resources – relating to nuclear energy, such as fossil energies, continue to have the upper hand.
I am convinced that the energy challenge will be won at an regional level.
In fact, renewable energies can adapt marvellously to all terrains depending on geophysics and climate. Whether solar energy, windy energy, geothermal, biomass or wood energy… they are available to all and do not contribute to the greenhouse gas effect. Furthermore, modern technology has made them more accessible, more efficient and very innovative.
To this must be added the necessity to manage energy needs, and we are witnessing extraordinary developments in the housing sector (with energy-saving and even positive energy houses, and new certification, such as ‘Effinergie’, which originated in the Languedoc-Roussillon, Franche-Comté and Alsace regions.
Whether dealing with issues relating to sustainable development and protection of environment, or economic development (the effect of decentralisation makes decisions taken closer to the ‘front line’ more appropriate), the creation of jobs or social policy, the regions, in conjunction with the “départements” and with intercommunity cooperation, have the ideal profile to drive the development of renewable energies.
As an academic and scientist, what do you consider to be the principal innovations which will emerge in the area of renewable energies ?
The area of renewable energies, in which there is finally significant research being carried out, is the field of choice for innovation and the future. In the area of photovoltaics, emphasis is being placed on the optimum use of equipment, which will reduce the use of silicon with flexible surfaces. However, the creation of completely organic photovoltaic panels is being researched and offers tremendous possibilities.
Intense research is underway to develop the battery of the future and energy storage methods, whether in the form of fuel or electrolyte cells, or even electrodes which we can now imagine extracting resources from marine products, notably algae (which are also being studied for biofuel production). I also believe in the opportunities for using phase change materials (melting is endothermic, while crystallisation is exothermic).
Lastly, I really believe in ‘Green Chemistry’ and in the promising resources for ‘second generation’ fuels. In fact, I think that the high point of research right now is primarily this; in employing high level scientific knowledge, we force ourselves to return to natural processes. Nature, thanks to biomass, has over the millennia created naphtha, the source of petroleum products. Therefore, it’s logical to try to shortcut the process in order to obtain, within a few months, fuels that were created over long geological ages. And finally, why not envisage the possibility that using plants, which are extraordinary collectors of solar energy, we could directly produce a form of energy using this method too. I think, finally, that innovations that we can’t quite envisage right now, will come about in housing and energy savings.
In Europe, ironically, renewable energy is developed first and foremost in countries in the northern hemisphere and in industrialised countries. Do you think that renewable energy could offer opportunities for countries in the southern hemisphere ?
Renewable energies provide great opportunities for those countries which have still not invested in traditional energy sources. This is obviously the case for countries in the southern hemisphere and not only in Africa or the Americas, but also in Europe. Notably in the Languedoc-Roussillon, where we don’t have any nuclear power stations and there is no source of oil, but we are investing heavily in renewable energy (our budget for 2007 exceeds €20 million), communications and research. This is exemplified by the ENERGAÏA International Exhibition that we are organising. As for developing countries, we must collaborate with them on the introduction of these new technologies using the sun, wind, geothermal, biomass and wood energy to develop modern conveniences and facilities, cultures, ‘healthy’ food and industrial production using heat and cold techniques, as well as micro-economic development specially adapted to the ecosystems studied. These will facilitate the development of future technologies, from this time onwards, by boosting economic development and employment opportunities in countries in the southern hemisphere.
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LAST MINUTE !
ENERGAÏA will bring together more than 200 exhibitors from various countries. New sections have been created, such as the ‘Training’ platforms and the “Eco-Construction” section, which complete the global offer of the Renewable Energies sector…
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USEFUL INFORMATIONS
 Visitor’s badges
Visit the ENERGAÏA exhibition !
To avoid queues at the entrance to the exhibition, pre-register now on the website, www.energaia-expo.com, and get your ENERGAÏA access badge online immediately and free of charge! (The badge is valid for the three-day event).
To pre-register, click here
Conferences
Register online !
Would you like to participate in the exhibition conferences ? From 15 September, you can register directly online on the website, www.energaia-expo.com, for the ENERGAÏA exhibition conferences*
*open to industry professionals
International Business Forum (FIA)
Participate in B to B meetings !
If you are a prescriber** or exhibitor, fill in the online registration form now on the ENERGAÏA International Business Forum website, www.fia-energaia.com. The organisers of the FIA International Business Forum will contact you as soon as possible.
** Please note: you must also pre-register as a visitor in order to gain access to FIA International Business Forum meetings.
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IN BRIEF...
Specific stands
“Training’ platforms”
Organised by the University of Montpellier 2, these platforms will assemble local education authorities, institutions, training centres and universities, along with producers of training tools, to present the most comprehensive offer possible.
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“Eco-construction section”
 Manufacturers will present their technological innovations and illustrate their applications in the building and construction industry.
General meetings
Please note !
Several general meetings will be held during the ENERGAÏA exhibition :
- RESTMAC (European project coordinated by EREC). More+...
- MEDENER (Mediterranean agencies for renewable energies). More+...
- EAST-GSR (European project coordinated by ADEME). More+...
International promotion
Middle-Eastern delegation
The agency, MEDevents, ENERGAÏA’s official representative in the Middle East, has arranged a travel programme for delegations from Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon. More+...
INTERSOLAR 2007
ENERGAÏA’s sales team was in attendance on the “Pavillon France” of the INTERSOLAR 2007 exhibition.
Website
ENERGAÏA’s website in English !
The ENERGAÏA International Exhibition owed it to its exhibitors and visitors to offer them an English language version of their website. Here it is ! The French site was translated in its entirety to offer you a website with comprehensive information. Visit the website…
The Exhibition partners
INVEST Languedoc-Roussillon, ENERGAÏA’s partner
Acting as a ‘information booth’ for welcoming new industrial investors, R&D Centres and industry service providers to the region, INVEST LR will be present at the Exhibition and available to participants to facilitate setting up business in the Languedoc-Roussillon region.
INVEST LR will :
• Identify premises or sites suited to your requirements
• Provide access to a network of regional expertise
• Identify partners
• Provide financial engineering support
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Press : various national and international media are associated with the Exhibition !
Systèmes Solaires-Le Journal des Energies Renouvelables (France), Sun & Wind Energy (Germany), Energie et Développement Durable Magazine (France), Plein Soleil (France), Actu-environnement (France), Solar News (Spain), Habitat Naturel (France), Energía & Empresa (Spain), Developpementdurablelejournal.com (France)...
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Quality certification
ENERGAÏA supports the European campaign “Sustainable Energy Europe”
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