ENERGY EFFICIENCY COALITION: South-East European Congress Exhibition on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

CROATIAN CENTER OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES (CCRES)

1. US Export-Import Bank: Renewable Energy & Environmental Program

2. Announcements from our exhibitors

• Biogest

• Canadian Solar

• Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG

• Gamesa Electric

• JCS Solar

3. Announcements from our partners

• EnergyTrend

• IAIR (International Alternative Investment Review)

• REVOLVE

• save-more-energy.com

US Export-Import Bank: Renewable Energy & Environmental Program

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) is the official export credit agency of the United States federal government. It was established in 1934 for the purposes of financing and insuring foreign purchases of United States goods and services to foreign buyers.

In 2010, the Bank launched the Renewable Energy & Environmental Finance practice, a dedicated group to oversee credit underwriting in the related fields. Since then, the group has financed solar, wind, gasificiation and other such projects around the world, most notably to project developers and other such buyers of US goods throughout Europe, Latin America and Asia. In fiscal year 2011, the Bank authorized almost $750 million of renewable energy loans, of which approximately $600 million was for solar projects.

Due to the popular growth of Ex-Im activities in this field, the Bank launched initiatives to meet the increased demand for financing small solar-power transactions. Under this program, called “Renewable Energy Express”, the Bank will be able to consider financing for small solar and wind power producers seeking loans of $3 million to $10 million.

More about the Renewable Energy & Environmental Program will be presented by Timothy C. Kim during the session EE & RES Financing on the 8^th Congress for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy for South-East Europe.

JCS Solar

JCS Solar is a subsidiary of JZ Group, and a vertically-integrated photovoltaic manufacturer with a complete production chain that covers all from ingot casting, wafer slicing, cell production, module assembly to system integration and inverter manufacturing. With integrated mode, we provide our clients with superior and cost-effective products.

Our plant is located in Yichang City in Hubei Province, beside the Yangtze River and the Three Gorges Dam. The producing area is about 25 acres(100,000㎡) and currently we have more than 1,800 employees, a number steadily growing. Production capacity of JCS Solar is 240MW in 2011 and will be 600MW in 2012. Our sales and service network has been established around the world, with global sales center in Shanghai, European headquarter in Munich and international logistics center in Rotterdam and Antwerp, and branch office in Sofia, Bulgaria. JZ Group is specialized in real estate development, investments of renewable energy projects, Agriculture, Construction materials and Business consulting and Logistics. Since the foundation of JZ Group in 2002, the Group is growing stronger and stronger with branches covering different areas, distributing its own endeavor to the economic development of Yichang City. JZ Group is speeding forward with the opportunities and supports provided by the local government, and scientific management system, and advanced technology, aiming at becoming a competitive Large-scale integrated green energy supplier.

Biogest


		Biogest is an international biogas plant manufacturer based in Austria. Other sites are in Romania, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The biogas plants are installed in well-established Biogest PowerRing technology, which has advantages especially in Central and Eastern Europe with regard to energy efficiency, reliability and availability. The core competencies range from project development, planning, financing to the turnkey construction and operation of biogas plants with sizes between 500 kW and 3,500 kW. In recent years Biogest has strongly expanded its market position as a specialist in the emerging markets for biogas. Based on over 40 existing reference plants in Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, further order intake from the Czech Republic and first contracts for biogas projects in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Serbia have been recorded. Biogas as a renewable energy sources has technological, environmental and economic benefits. Energy can be generated 365 days per year, any day or night. Due to its availability, biogas plays an important role in the mix of renewable energy from water, sun and wind. Besides the contribution to achieving the climate protection goals, the dependency on energy imports can thereby be reduced. The decentralized power generation also guarantees a sustainable local supply.

Canadian Solar

Canadian Solar: one of the world’s largest solar companies

Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ) is one of the world's largest solar companies. As a leading vertically integrated provider of ingot, wafer, solar cell, solar module and other solar applications, Canadian Solar designs, manufactures and delivers solar products and solar system solutions for on-grid and off-grid use to customers worldwide. With operations in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia, Canadian Solar provides premium quality, cost-effective and environmentally-friendly solar solutions to support global, sustainable development

Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG

We trust in our products and constantly strive to improve their quality – this gives us confidence enough to grant 10 years of warranty for most of our PLATINUM® products. The warranty can be extended to 20 years. Our patented Dive® technology gives PLATINUM® inverters a maximum efficiency of 98%. “Get up earlier, work later” – the device will start feeding at only one thousandth of its power, even if the irradiation is very low. Before leaving our factory, all inverters have to pass a thorough six-step quality test. PLATINUM® inverters are extremely robust and very reliable. Along with their exceptionally low failure rate, these features make our products the perfect system components. In the training centre of our headquarters in Wangen im Allgäu, we hold training courses on all PLATINUM® products for retail dealers, sales staff and installers on a regular basis. Our PLATINUM® service experts will answer any questions regarding the design, support and startup of monitoring systems and help you find solutions for difficult situations - quick and professional, on the phone or directly in the field.

Gamesa Еlectric

Manufacturer of PV central inverters since 1993 we offer 100, 500, 630 kW central plus inverters and 1, 1,2 mW solutions and we provide support and trainning for the optimun PV plant integration.

In the year of 2000, Trendforce started to deliver market intelligence services under the name of DRAMeXchange. EnergyTrend, a research division of TrendForce, is dedicated to delivering market intelligence of environmentally sustainable energy. EnergyTrend is also an information platform for green energy industry providing the latest industry trends, product information, in-depth research analysis as well as industry interviews. The research scope of EnergyTrend includes various green industries from solar energy, energy batteries to xEvs.

www.energytrend.com

IAIR (International Alternative Investment Review)

IAIR (International Alternative Investment Review) is one of the fast growing alternative investment magazines worldwide and the first, according to Alexa – Amazon, for international ranking and number of readers.

In fact, IAIR has recently surpassed international and well known magazines like Euromoney, Institutional Investor, Reuters Hedgeworld, Financial Time Wealth Monitor. You can see more about the ranking at http://www.iaireview.org/top-ranking/

International Alternative Investment Review (I.A.I. Review)delivers news you won’t read anywhere else about events in the business and financial community worldwide and the best ideas and themes in the alternative assets sector.

I.A.I Review focuses on the fastest growing segments within this dynamic sector, including family office, private equity, hedge funds, philanthropy and property.

The readership includes:Hedge fund managers; Fund of fund operators; High net worth individuals; Private bankers; Law firm; Head of family offices; Trustee and Investment directors.

For more information, please visit: www.iaireview.org

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