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WWEA General Assembly: Anil Kane unanimously re-elected as WWEA President

Monday, 22 June 2009

WWEA welcomes Canadian manufacturer AAER as 400th member

Jeju Island/Bonn (WWEA) – On the occasion of the 8th World Wind Energy Conference 2009 on Jeju island, Korea, Dr. Anil Kane was re-elected unanimously as WWEA President. He reaffirmed that under his leadership WWEA will continue to spread awareness of the benefits of renewable energy, with a special focus on developing countries. Also WWEA will continue its efforts to bring together all organisations working in renewable energy.

The WWEA General Assembly elected the Hon. Peter Rae AO, Renewable Energy Generators Australia, as Senior Vice President.

As Vice Presidents of the World Wind Energy Association were elected:

· Prof. Chuichi Arakawa, Japan Wind Energy Association
· Mr Heinrich Bartelt, German Wind Energy Association
· Prof. Everaldo Feitosa, Brazilian Wind Energy Center
· Air Marshal (R) Shahid Hamid, Pakistan
· Prof. He Dexin, President Chinese Wind Energy Association
· Mr Hermann Oelsner, African Wind Energy Association, South Africa
· Prof. Galal Osman, Egyptian Wind Energy Association
· Prof. Tanay Sidki Uyar, Eurosolar Turkey
· Prof. Choong-Yul Son, Korean Wind Energy Association
· Prof. Erico Spinadel, Argentine Wind Energy Association

Mr Volker Thomsen, Canada, was elected as Treasurer.

During its report to the General Assembly, WWEA Secretary General Stefan Gsänger highlighted WWEA's greatest achievements in 2009: the founding of the International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA and the first feed-in laws both in North America (Ontario) as well as in Africa (South Africa). Mr Gsänger described the positive development of WWEA in the past year: Today, WWEA has more than 400 members in 91 countries and only the WWEA member associations represent a membership of more than 50’000 members. Recently, WWEA was able to welcome its 400th member: the only Canadian industrial wind turbine manufacturer AAER, established in Bromont, Quebec.

Mr Yves Gagnon, CEO of AAER CPSC, is very proud and honoured of its new membership within the WWEA: "AAER Inc and WWEA are sharing a common vision of the wind energy development on international level: A wind development based on human scale projects, aiming primarily to meet the population’s needs of renewable energy. Furthermore, these projects join the perspective of sustainable development, to assure a social development by using economic tools and performing technologies, while taking into account the support capacity of the environment."

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