Forty Countries Represented At Leading IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

The Organizing team of the 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, the highest running global gather of PV scientists and engineers, reported today a record attendance at this year's conference. Over 1,380 attendees traveled to Honolulu from 40 countries across the globe, including the Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, South Korea and Australia. In addition, the conference hosted a lively exhibition hall with 40 booths that was also dwelling to an exciting display of over 500 top-tier notice presentations.

A record 930 technical presentations took place at the Hawaii Convention Center, representing an increase of over 40% from the 2009 conference. Participating industry and government notables included Hawaii Lt. Governor James "Duke" Aiona, SEIA's Rhone Resch, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Jae Edmonds, Peter Cousins of Sunpower, DOE's John Lushetsky and Hawaii State Representative Hermina Morita. Numerous international universities and labs were represented in addition to council from IBM, CH2M Hill and many more.

We were thrilled to see the world's leading PV scientists and engineers meeting at our international conference to extra hasten solar technology as a cross-occupant solution to our energy needs, said Robert Walters, Conference Chair for the 35th IEEE PV Specialists Conference. The keenness for solar in the Hawaiian Islands made it the ideal forum for intellectual collaboration and discussion around PV.