Featured in Why waste this space? – 07-2012

Attracting luminaries & latecomers

Intersolar North America: Last year, the Intersolar North America trade show and conference attracted 834 exhibitors and 19,168 visitors, along with 220 speakers and 1,617 seminar attendees, or more than 20,000 people. This summer, the conference organizers predict that these numbers will rise to 22,000.

If there is a glint of light at the end of this year’s grim economic tunnel, it surely is emanating from the emerging solar industry. In fact, according to the Washington, DC-based Solar Foundation, the number of workers in the U.S. solar sector, alone, nearly doubled between 2010 and 2011, from 46,000 to 100,000. So, …

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