Musk, Masayoshi, Nobel winners may virtually attend Sep Delhi global solar meet

New Delhi: Bertrand Piccard, who flew around the world in a solar powered plane, Tesla Inc’ boss Elon Musk and SoftBank chief executive Masayoshi Son, are among the global solar leaders, who may ‘virtually’ attend the International Solar Alliance’ (ISA) first World Solar Technology Summit to be held on 8 September in the national capital.

ISA, the first treaty-based international government organization headquartered in India, is working to ‘virtually’ rope in most of the global solar elite for the Summit. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will give the inaugural address.

The who’s who of the global solar landscape expected to attend the Summit include Nobel laureates Mario Molina and M. Stanley Whittingham, France’ ecological transition minister Barbara Pompili and the co-president of the ISA Assembly, European Commission’ executive vice president Frans Timmermans and ISA president and India’s power and renewable energy minister Raj Kumar Singh.