Not least because of the pandemic, there will be a few changes in the trade fair organizing domain. Energy Storage Europe (ESE) in Düsseldorf will not take place in the spring as usual, but from September 20th to 22th, and under a new name, Expo for Decarbonised Industries. Another difference is that the energy storage fair will be prevented from coinciding with the world-leading glass production fair Glasstec. According to Messe Düsseldorf, it shall create a “suitable platform for decarbonization of industries and businesses in Germany.”
Project director Gerrit Nawracala hopes that it will “provide targeted answers to the challenges and questions that arise in connection with climate protection, energy costs and security of supply for our customers.” As before, the new concept will be backed by the national association for energy storage systems BVES and likewise by the German association for machine and plant engineering VDMA. The organizers of Expo for Decarbonised Industries explained to H2-international that the event has been pushed back to the fall because of the extra preparation needed to further develop and plan the new fair. This additionally would avoid a “scheduling collision with ISH,” Messe Frankfurt’s HVAC and water systems fair.
The spring, however, will not be devoid of an energy storage fair, as ees Europe is scheduled as usual. With the motto “Innovating Energy Storage,” Messe München is inviting manufacturers, project developers, system integrators, users and suppliers from the battery and renewable energy branch to the event on May 11th to 13th, 2022. Under the umbrella of The smarter E Europe, the events ees, Intersolar, Power2Drive and EM-Power had just recently, in October 2021, attracted around 26,000 visitors to the exhibition grounds of the Bavarian capital. The two organizers, Solar Promotion and Freiburg Wirtschaft Touristik und Messe (FWTM), expect the number of exhibitors to grow from 450 to 480 in 2022. Storage systems and green hydrogen in particular will again be presented as the core of the clean energy transition.
Comeback of H2 Expo
Northern Germany continues to gear up for the emerging global hydrogen economy and is reactivating an old brand: H2Expo is coming back. Hamburg Messe had tried in 2020, with an H2Insights venue, to organize hydrogen companies for a WindEnergy event, which did not really work out. Apparently, after their own opinion barometer registered that “overall over 55 percent estimate a high to very high probability that the production of green hydrogen will play a significant role for wind energy in the next three years,” Hamburg is getting a hydrogen fair again.
H2Expo had already been held in the Hanseatic city for several years in a row by the turn of the millennium. Now, it’s coming back in 2022 as “H2 Expo and Conference” and, what’s more, accompanied by WindEnergy Hamburg. Taking place September 27th to 30th, it will be only three weeks before Hydrogen Technology Expo Europe in Bremen. Project manager Anja Holinsky, who had already led H2Expo for ten years, will get support from, among others, the renewable energy research cluster Cluster Erneuerbare Energien Hamburg, where since the turn of the year, Katja Löwe, project leader of the real-world hydrogen research lab Wasserstoffwirtschaft Norddeutsches Reallabor, has been active.
Author: Sven Geitmann
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