SPI goes totally virtual as Las Vegas trade show is cancelled

• SPI, North America's largest solar sector occasion, will certainly currently be fully virtual after the organisers terminated an outdoor exhibit rescheduled for October.

The exhibit, formerly slated to happen in September, had been divided as well as repositioned as a result of the continuous COVID-19 pandemic. Online seminars and online sessions were to happen during the initial days, complied with by a physical exhibit planned for Las Vegas in mid-October.

Nonetheless the occasion organisers Solar Power Events validated yesterday (12 August 2020) that the physical event had actually currently been terminated too in a proposal to maintain the industry safe amidst the pandemic.

A virtual tradeshow will currently take place on the exact same dates in October.

"Going completely virtual this year enables us to still supply a place for the sector to gather. It also opens the doors for interaction and partnership with sector agents that might have been not able to travel to our event in the past," Stephen Miner, head of state and CEO at Solar Energy Trade Shows, claimed.

SPI ends up being the latest significant industry tradeshow to abandon physical versions in the interests of safety. Intersolar Europe was terminated completely in late March and earlier today All-Energy Australia validated it would certainly as well be cancelled among a surge in unique coronavirus situations.

SNEC, the globe's largest solar exhibit, was repositioned-- initially for October 2020 prior to being brought forward to August, happened over last weekend break as well as earlier this week. PV Tech's China-based content group was present at the occasion and generated this extensive summary of the modern technologies on display.