New Delhi: India, the world’s largest developing developed economy is todayrecognized as the epicenter of progressive initiatives across sectors. Having played a catalyst for spearheading such initiatives, India is all set to host the DIREC 2010 (DELHI INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY CONFERENCE 2010) from 27th to 29th October 2010 on the theme of “Upscaling and Mainstreaming Renewables for Energy Security, Climate Change and Economic Development.”

As per Mr. Deepak Gupta, Secretary, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, “DIREC is expected to turn around a representation of more than 50 countries and over 600 exhibitors. This is going to be India’s largest ever B2B exhibition ever held on Renewable Energies.” Sharing about the participations at DIREC he also added “We are also holding a separate CEO roundtable for a high level representation of the companies worldwide to seek the business perspective for the development of renewables worldwide. Some of the distinguished names in business representation would include names like TERI, GE Energy, ACME Tele Power, Honeywell, Uni-Solar, Suzlon etc. who would also deliberate policy discussions to scale up the growth in this sector.”

These conferences over the years have fostered the scaling up and development of renewables with a healthy participation from all over world. DIREC 2010 is a stepping stone in this series of international conferences on renewable energy which begun at Bonn in 2004. Over the years the conference has successfully achieved the participation of high level stakeholders from policy, business, science and civil society. Even this time DIREC is staged to witness a strong participation of Energy Ministers from more than 40 countries with more than 9000 delegates and 250 speakers over the three days conference and other simultaneous events.