About the Guide

We are happy and proud to be able to present to you the first edition of the Solar PV Business Guide for the EU NMS, Greece, Turkey, Russia and the other CIS countries.

To get your free copy of the Guide, please click here. (60MB)

What is it? It is a comprehensive compilation of information about companies and organizations, private and public, active in the Solar PV sector in the EU New Member States, Greece, Turkey, Russia and the other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine). It also presents an opportunity for companies and organizations from countries outside the region in question to be represented in the Guide, in the special section “Looking for Partners in Rising Opportunities Countries”.

Thus, the Guide consists of five main sections:

1. Solar PV actors in EU New Member States

2. Solar PV actors in Greece

3. Solar PV actors in Turkey

4. Solar PV actors in Russia and other CIS countries

5. Looking for partners in Rising Opportunities Countries (for companies and organizations outside the covered region)

Second updated edition of the Guide. We are still receiving requests from companies and organizations to be included in the Guide. Because we believe that the more inclusive a guide like this is, the more useful it will be for everybody, we have decided to launch a second, extended and updated edition of the Guide in September 2009.

Help us complete the Guide! While we have done our very best to try to cover as many relevant actors a possible, and to provide as accurate information as possible, we are sure that there are many ways in which the Guide could be further improved. Therefore, we are most grateful for your assistance in enhancing and completing the Guide:

· if you are already in the Guide but would like to make corrections for the second edition, or

· if you are not yet in the Guide but would like to appear there, or

· if you would like to leave your comments or suggest ways in which the Guide could be improved,

then please go to the Registration page of the Guide to find out how to do this or click the icon below

We hope that you will find that this Guide provides important contacts and that it will prove itself to be a useful tool for actors in the Solar PV business in this promising region as well as for those interested in building contacts with it.

Some practical info about the Guide:

The Guide is available in electronic format FREE OF CHARGE!

Global distribution to more than 3.000 Solar PV companies from the whole value chain and to more than 10.000-selected personal Solar PV business contacts from SolarPVconsulting’s database.

Global Distribution to more than 1000 Solar PV companies-members of our partners industry associations and other partners of the Rising Opportunities Conference**

Free download from SolarPVEVENTS.com and SolarPVRISING.com and from the websites of the Conference partner organizations.

Its ambition is to give a comprehensive coverage of companies and organizations, both public and private, that are active in the Solar PV sector in the EU New Member States, Turkey, Greece, Russia and other CIS countries.

Its goal is to become a “must have” set of contacts for all actors in the field - commercial, governmental and research organizations, - allowing anybody looking to develop their activities in the EU New Member States, Turkey, Greece, Russia and other CIS countries to easily identify business, cooperation and research partners in these dynamic and rapidly developing new markets.

It will receive extremely wide publicity – it will be distributed to conference partner organizations*, speakers and members of the Program Committee, and to all participants of the conference Rising Opportunities. It will also be available on the websites www.solarpvrising.com and www.solarpvevents.com and on the websites of conference partner organizations.

*Supporting partners of Rising Opportunities:
International organizations:
1. European Photovoltaic Technology Platform
2. PV GROUP (an initiative of SEMI)
3. PV CYCLE, European Association for voluntary take back and recovering of photovoltaic modules
4. EPIC, the European Photonics Industry Consortium
5. Solar Solidarity International
National organizations and institutes:
1. BSW-Solar, the German Solar Industry Association
2. GIFI, the Italian PV Industry Association
3. SOLER, Syndicat des Energies Renouvelables, France
4. AEF, the Photovoltaic Enterprise Association, Spain
5. HELAPCO, the Hellenic Association of Photovoltaic Companies
6. ZSFI, Slovenian Photovoltaic Industry Association
7. APE, Energy Restructuring Agency, Slovenia
8. Gunese, Turkish PV Association
9. CZREA, Czech RE Agency, o.p.s
10. ICPE, Research Institute for Electrical Engineering, Romania
11. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Central Laboratory of Solar Energy and New Energy Sources
12. Ioffe, Physico-Technical Institute, Russia
13. Tech-park,The Zelenograd Science and Technology Park, Russia
14. MIEE, Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology
15. CCI CIS, Chamber of Commerce & Industry for CIS, Belgium, Luxembourg
16. SNEIA, Shanghai New Energy Industry Association, China
17. SOLARZOOM, China
18. SolarPVEVENTS, Belgium