Intersolar North America 🇺🇸 vs Intersolar Europe 🇪🇺
I attended Intersolar North America and Energy Storage North America last week, a name well-known in Europe as Intersolar is THE event to attend if you are in the solar/battery space.
Several people asked me about the differences between the two shows. Here are the main distinctions I observed:
🔗 Different Supply Chains: While China dominates the Munich event with the largest booths, not many Chinese Tier 1 (PV modules, battery, and inverter) suppliers attended the American counterpart. Instead, Indian, Turkish, and Vietnamese players represented Asia.
📏 Event Size: Let's be honest: Intersolar US is much smaller than Europe's in terms of the number of booths and attendance. Still, as Sinovoltaics enters the US market, many insightful conversations took place. Also, since the event is in Downtown San Diego, it's much more convenient to meet people around the show. And better to have confidential business conversations.
🇺🇸 IRA (Inflation Reduction Act): The Inflation Reduction Act is everywhere. New American players are entering the industry, and international players are looking to establish local factories in Ohio, Texas, or North Carolina. Many consultants were there to support companies in getting the most out of this strategic legislation.
👷 Local Players: If you're accustomed to European EPCs, mounting structures, analytics software, and services, there's a good chance that you've never heard of most of the companies exhibiting in those fields at Intersolar North America.
🍺 🥨 Last but not least, free beers and pretzels were nowhere to be seen in the exhibition hall. That was a big shock for me. 😅 However, the Californian sunshine and palm trees make up for it. What do you think?
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