Featured in Gas busters – 09-2020

A domestic affair

The annual SNEC trade show in Shanghai has long been an important date on the calendar for the global PV industry. But due to pandemic-related travel restrictions, the 2020 event was a decidedly Chinese affair, and international players were a rare sight in the exhibition halls. Vincent Shaw, pv magazine’s China correspondent, reports from what will likely be the only major PV trade show to take place this year.

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Vincent Shaw

08 Sep 2020

To the surprise of some, SNEC 2020 was extremely well attended, with 170,000 visitors over three days, according to the organizers. Travel restrictions, however, meant that few exhibitors and attendees came from outside China. | Image: pv magazine/Vincent Shaw

After the empty halls of only a few exhibitions and conferences that were able to go ahead in the face of worldwide Covid-19 restrictions on travel and public events – like the Tokyo World Smart Energy Week in February and the International Solar Expo in Jinan, China, in July – few people expected the crowds …

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