World Wind Energy Association

WWEC2013: Programme available 12th World Wind Energy Conference & Exhibition Havana, Cuba, 3-5 June 2013 www.wwec2013.net Full WWEC2013 Programme Available Bonn/Havana, 30 April 2013 – The forthcoming 12th World Wind Energy Conference & Exhibition "Opening Doors for Caribbean Winds" will become the biggest renewable energy event ever held in Central America. More than 500 experts from 40 countries are expected to attend WWEC2013, amongst them top wind and renewable energy experts from all over the world. The programme of the WWEC2013, as prepared by the WWEC2013 International Programme Committee, has been published: 300 speakers will present all important aspects of wind power utilization in 45 sessions. The full conference programme is available on the conference website. Many high-level representatives and leading experts from governments, international organizations, industry and non-governmental organizations have confirmed their participation, amongst them: Alfredo López Valdés, Minister of Energy and Mines, Cuba Rodolfo Alarcón Ortiz, Minister of Higher Education, Cuba Zorana Mihajlovic, Minister of Energy, Development and Environmental Protection of Serbia Jero Wacik, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resource of Republic of Indonesia Liu Qi, Deputy Director of China National Energy Administration Kai Bethke, Head of the Regional Office of United Nations for Industrial Development UNIDO Hugo Lucas, International Renewable Energy Agency, IRENA Victorio Oxilia Dávalos, Executive Secretary OLADE Leandro Alves, Energy Division Chief, Interamerican Development Bank Prof. He Dexin, President WWEA Alicia Alonso Becerra, Rector of Higher Polytechnic Institute Jose A. Echeverría, CUJAE Dr. Franz Alt, journalist, Germany Andress Appolon, Director, Electricited’Haití Prof. Dr. José Etcheverry, York University, Canada Christopher Flavin, World Watch Institute, USA Stefan Gsaenger, Secretary General. WWEA Luis C.A. Gutiérrez-Negrín, Board Member, International Geothermal Association, Mexico Dr. Tetsu Iida, Director ISEP, Japan Dr. Anil Kane, Chairman InWEA, Emeritus President WWEA Tracy Lane, Director, International Hydropower Association Dr. Preben Maegaard, Director Folkecenter, Denmark Prof. Dr. Conrado Moreno, CETER, Cuba Prof. Dr. Monica Oliphant, University of South Australia David Renné, President, International Solar Energy Society, USA Stefan Schurig, Director, World Future Council Brain Wilson, Havana Energy Project, United Kingdom Join the World of Wind Energy in Havana! More information about WWEC2013: www.wwec2013.net Details... New Global Alliance calls for 100 Percent Renewable Energy New Global Alliance calls for 100 Percent Renewable Energy – www.go100percent.org San Francisco/ Hamburg, 17 April 2013: A newly established global alliance of civil society organizations, academics, business associations and policy makers has called upon national legislators to commit to 100 percent renewable energy in the power, heating&cooling and transportation sector. At the Pathways To 100% Renewable Energy Conference, taking place in San Francisco, California today, the alliance launched a new international campaign that seeks to build political will among a critical mass of decision makers and set a required goal of 100% renewable energies. Among the founding partners of the new alliance are the World Future Council, Renewables 100 Policy Institute, World Wind Energy Association, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, DeENet and World Bioenergy Association. “It is a fact that non-renewable energies will, by definition, run out. It is also a fact that in the meantime, dependence on these energy sources is causing multiple existential global crises. If human beings are to preserve modernity and planetary habitability, we must soon shift to 100% renewable energy in all sectors,” said Stefan Schurig, Director of Climate and Energy, World Future Council. In a joint statement the representatives of the new alliance also state that despite this basic logic, so far most political decision makers have taken measures nowhere near proportional to the problem. “One fundamental necessity to breaking the inertia should be a robust, global call for 100% renewable energy that creates urgently needed political will among legislators around the globe,” says Diane Moss, Founding Director of Renewables 100 Policy Institute. “The technologies to harvest these energy sources already exist today, and they are already cost-competitive,” says Stefan Gsänger, Secretary General of World Wind Energy Association. “It is the responsibility of our generation to do whatever we can in order to switch as fast as possible to 100% renewable energy." Details... CISWIND2013: Time for closer cooperation of the wind sector in the CIS countries CISWIND2013 International Conference & Exhibition "Wind power in the CIS and Eastern Europe” “Time for closer cooperation of the wind sector in the CIS countries” Kiev/Bonn (WWEA/UWEA) – The key event in the wind energy industries of the CIS and Eastern Europe countries CISWIND2013 "Wind power in the CIS and Eastern Europe" took place on 28-29 March 2013 in the Conference Center at the National Sports Complex “Olimpiyskiy”, Kiev, Ukraine. Delegations from 15 countries participated in the conference and exhibition, including: Austria, Belarus, France, Germany, Israel, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Spain, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Ukraine. CISWIND2013 is the largest international wind industry event in Ukraine and in the CIS countries. It brought together the market leaders, heads of the industry agencies, developers and equipment manufacturers, financiers and investors, top international wind experts and professional associations. The key topics of CISWIND2013 included the analysis of the global and European wind markets, policies and legal frameworks for further wind development, investment attractiveness and peculiarities of financing wind farms in the CIS and Eastern Europe, technical aspects of grid connection, “green” tariff regulations and state support in view of recent legislative changes as well as the risk management in wind projects Companies actively working in the field of wind energy and offering the full range of services - from wind measurements to manufacture of wind turbines and development of wind power projects - presented their products and services as well as new technologies at the trade show. Details...