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International Solar Cities Congress & Green Energy EXPO 2004

EXCO is getting ready for new events related to the renewable or, alternative energies.

These two events will take place simultaneously from November 15 to 17 2004. International Solar Cities Congress and Green Energy EXPO 2004 (International Solar & Green Energy EXPO Korea 2004) are expected to facilitate awareness and understanding for the alternative energy development and application in the world.
A quest: finding answers for the energy crisis
EXCO will play a key role in widening the awareness of alternative energy in Korea this fall. International Solar Cities Congress and Green Energy EXPO 2004 will be two meaningful events that will promote awareness and understanding for the renewable energy technology. These two events, along with other events like Fire EXPO and many more, will be good opportunity for EXCO to serve public cause.

Recently, Korean government announced an ambitious plan of investing about 200 million dollars in development of renewable energy during next 5 years, beginning this year. Encouraged by this governmental plan, corporations in environment conservation business are putting greater energy into the development of new environment-friendly products. Parts of these up-to-date alternative energy technologies and products will be shown in the upcoming Green Energy EXPO 2004. Total 100 corporations including Kyocera, Sharp of Japan, SMA of Germany and non-government organization Greenpeace will be participating in this show, featuring solar, wind, fuel cell energy technologies in different sections like renewable energy section, high-effective energy section, and environmentally friendly products section. International Solar Cities Congress, which will be held at the same period, consists of solar city mayors congress, international academic workshop, business forum, residents forum and many other minor events. Participating cities and corporations will have opportunities to show their alternative energy technology at the exhibition site. Participating parties will exchange their ideas and technology under the topic of sustainable growth and development of alternative energy.

EXCO? Solar Photovoltaic System starts operation
EXCO? Solar Photovoltaic System is going to start generating power from November 2004, celebrating the opening of International Solar Cities Congress & Green Energy EXPO 2004. Modules for this power system are installed on the 90- meter-long rooftop of EXCO? main building. Seen from the sky, the modules make a huge sign of four letters; EXCO. Installation of modules and electricity inverter was finished last April and the whole system is ready to start operation.
The peak capacity of this power generating system is 60kWp with 760 modules, and the system will generate 76,650kWh per year. EXCO? Solar Photovoltaic System is a part of Daegu city? solar city program.

Solar cities of the world

Freiburg of Germany : Cradle of Solar tourism
Freiburg, known as the ‘environmental capital of Germany’ or, ‘the city of Solar Energy’, is the frontrunner in development and application of renewable energy. Many alternative energy developers, educational institutions, corporations have their headquarters in this small city.

And residential life in this city is mainly supported by renewable energy system, accordingly making this city the best venue for the Solar-city tourism.

Freiburg is also well-known as the city of the annual International Solar Energy Exhibition, the biggest convention of this kind, which is held here every year. In 2003, 240 corporations from 17 countries participated in this show, making the show one of the most crowed renewable energy shows. Lots of other exhibitions and conventions related to renewable energy are held in this city, too.

Goteborg, Sweden : the city of Solar tourism
Goteborg is in the process of being transformed from a manufacturing ground into a technology-uploaded city, with new business-sectors included in local economy, such as car-making, bio and medical industry, environment conservation and IT business. This city is well-known as the ‘Goteborg 2050 Project’. The goal of this project is to replace all energy it consumes with renewable energy. This effort began in the late 1980s. The city set and applied high standards to reduce emission of pollutant from oil refinery and other factories. The city encouraged local corporations to produce environment friendly products, too. In 1994, the city established the Office of Supply in order to disseminate and encourage people to buy environment-friendly products. The city developed some environment stickers that are shared by only environment-friendly products produced by local manufacturers.

Kalunborg, Denmark : Industrial Symbiosis System
Kalunborg, one of Denmark? industrial cities, is known for its industrial symbiosis system, which is called as the archetype of eco-industrial complex. Under this system, industrial waste from a factory is sent to other factories as energy resource, and vice versa. According to Kalunborg Industrial Development Council, this system helps save 1.9 million㎥ of grand water, one million㎥ of surface water, 20 thousand tons of oil, 200 thousand tons of gypsum. This system fulfills both economic and environmental goals by reducing cost and toxic industrial wastes at the same time. In the long run, the city aims to achieve the goal of zero-industrial-waste by expanding its symbiosis system to every sector of the industry.

Sacramento, U.S.A. : the City of the Sun
Sacramento, capital city of California State, U.S.A. is called as the City of the Sun. The city is formally approved as the Solar City by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Sacramento has more solar panels or, rooftop generators, than any other city in the world. It also has the largest solar power station in the world. 300 buildings and 700 houses in the city have solar power generation systems. These solar power systems in this city have the capacity of generating about 10MW, which is enough electricity to support 3,300 households or, ten thousand citizens. The solar power generated in Sacramento is near 50% of the whole solar electricity that is generated in U.S. Sacramento’s remarkable progress in using renewable energy is result of the effort by local government and the people of Sacramento that tried to maximize the unique geographical and climatic idiosyncrasy.