The organizers committee of the CISolar conferences has invited Dr. Michael Harr, CEO of CTF Solar, to participate as an invited honorary speaker at the “3rd International Conference & Exhibition on Solar Energy in the CIS and Eastern Europe”, held at April 8-9th 2014 in Sochi, Russia. On this conference Dr. Harr gave a presentation on “CdTe Technology from the Original Developer – Leading PV Thin Film Technologies Available for Local Productions”

With this presentation Dr. Harr gave a contribution to the question raised at the conference on whether it is worth for CIS countries to rely on own local components for solar parks or whether it is better to continue purchasing components on the world market.

Dr. Harr has been accompanied by Karl-Heinz Fischer, Director Sales & PR of CTF Solar.

The CISolar conferences are organized by Innovative Business Centre, Moscow. While the first two conferences of this series were held in Odessa, Ukraine, and Moscow, Russia, the third conference now was held at the conference facilities of the Olympia city Sochi located between the black see and the Caucasus Mountains. The conferences are a forum for industry leaders to exchange about prospects and regional peculiarities of the implementation of solar energy in Eastern Europe and the CIS countries.

The picture shows Dr. Harr moderating the conference session on “Practical Experience of Successful Projects in Solar Energy in Russia and Europe”.