The acronym RENEXPO, which stands for International Trade Fair for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficient Construction and Renovation, proved to be a very succesful venture.

“We are very satisfied. The quality of the trade fair grew again this year, and we never had so many visitors from so many countries,” was the résumé of Elisabetta Alberti, Project Manager of RENEXPO?. “The number of exhibitors grew 11% to 302, and the number of visitors went up 15% to 13,907. With the current economic situation, we exceeded our expectations”, according to Johann-Georg Röhm, General Manager of the REECO Group.

The main themes of this year’s trade fair were the reduction of energy costs and heating without oil. Whether with pellets, wood chip burners, fireplaces or tiled stoves, the main things is to get away from oil! In addition, the exhibits on energy efficient construction and renovation showed how to immensely reduce energy costs, and this year, for the first time, took up an entire hall at the trade fair.

The topics were spread out over three halls:

Hall 1:  IHE HolzEnergie (Wood Energy), biogas and cogeneration were represented here. As part of the trade fair, the BBE Trade Congress for Wood Energy, the Conference Bio Natural Gas from Biogas, the 4th Trade Meeting for Small and Midsize Wood Energy as well as the 2nd Trade Meeting on Decentralized Small and Micro Cogeneration took place.

The topic of interGreenBuilding was new this year, taking up Hall 2. This focal point dealt with the theme of energy efficient construction and renovation. For the first time, the impulse conference GreenBuilding was carried out with huge success.

In Hall 3, the topics of energy suppliers, wind energy, hydro power, heat pumps, solarthermics and photovoltaics were represented.

Facts and Figues on the RENEXPO 2008:

Total Exhibition Area:  18,000 m2

Total Number of Exhibitors:  302

Total Number of Speakers at the Congresses and Exhibitor Forums:  189

Total Number of Conference Participants:  1,210

Total Number of Visitors:  13,907