WREC 2006

Mission Statement
At no time in modern history has energy played a more crucial role in the development and well being of actions than at present. The source and nature of energy, the security of supply and the equity of distribution, the environmental impact of its supply and utilization, are all crucial matters to be addressed by suppliers, consumers, governments, industry, academia, and financial institutions. The World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC), a major recognised forum for networking between these sectors, addresses these issues through regular meetings and exhibitions, bringing together representatives of all those involved in the supply, distribution, consumption and development of energy sources which are benign, sustainable, accessible and economically viable. WREC enables policy makers, researchers, manufacturers, economists, financiers, sociologists, environmentalists and others to present their views in Plenary and Technical Sessions and to participate in discussions , both formal and informal, thus facilitating the transfer of knowledge between nations, institutions, disciplines and individuals. WREC applauds the recent ratification of the Kyoto Protocol by Russia. The recent World Renewable Energy Congress VIII in Denver, USA attended by more than a thousand participants, signalled the increasing importance of renewable energy, but much effort is still required to make it a major energy supplier.

Congress Aims
• Ensuring renewable energy takes its proper place in the sustainable supply and use of energy for greatest benefit of all, taking due account of research requirements, energy efficiency, conservation, and cost criteria.
• Enabling participants from developed and developing countries to meet to exchange knowledge and experience.
• Assisting and promoting: local, regional and global environmental benefits of renewable energy.
• Promoting the innovation, diffusion and efficient economical renewable energy technologies application
• Enhancing energy supply and security.
• Promoting business opportunities for renewable energy throughout the world.
• Ensuring the financing of, and institutional support for economic renewable energy projects.
• Encouraging improved information and education on renewable energy.
• Involving young people in information and education on renewable energy through targeted programs.
• Providing a technical exhibition where manufacturers and educational authorities can display their products and services.
• Strengthen and expand the effectiveness of the World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC/WREN) in promoting the above endeavour.
• Providing a forum within which participants can network.

Technical Committee and Congress Topics

Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Technology
• Advances in the science and technology of fuel cells.
• Proven commercialization reports including economic and policy issues. 1. Dr. Imad Mahawili , USA – Chair 2. Dr. Ulrich Schmidtchen , Germany 3. John Roethle, USA 4. Dr. Kamaruzzaman Sopian, Malaysia 5. Akita Maruta, Japan 6. Mr Arno A. Evers, Germany

Biomass Conversion
• Heat and Electricity Generation
• Energy Crops and Residues
• Liquid Fuels
• Environmental Impacts
• Socio- economics and Case Studies
• Gasi. cation processes

Energy, Poverty Reduction and Gender
• Gender and Sustainable Energy in Latin America, Sunday Workshop
• Gender and Sustainable Energy in the North
• Gender and Sustainable Energy in Developing Countries

Low Energy Architecture
• Thermal Environment (thermal comfort, air quality, ventilation);
• Visual Environment (daylighting, low energy lighting)
• Building Design Case Studies (forms, elements and materials);
• The urban environment (airborne pollution, noise, heat islands etc);
• Building and sustainability (life cycle performance, local renewable energy systems);
• Building refurbishment (integration of renewables).
• Architecture (education, social and psychological issues related to low energy architecture).
• Building Environmental Simulation and Air flow Simulation for Passive Cooling.
• Policy Issues and Regulations for Buildings and Urban Design
• Energy Saving in Earth Care Buildings
• Teaching in Architecture (TIA)

Marine Energy Technology
• Devices and Prototypes
• Hydrodynamics
• Climate and Resource
• Studies (economics, public financing, social and environmental issues)

Photovoltaic Technology
• Solar cell technology
• BOS components
• PV manufacture, testing and certification
• Stand-alone systems
• PV for rural development
• PV in the built environment
• Utility and grid connection issues
• Markets and commercialisation
• Financing schemes
• National Programme

Solar Materials Topics
• Advanced Glazing Including Low Emittance and Solar Gain Control Coatings.
• Spectrally Selective Solar Absorbers.
• Smart Materials, e.g. Electrochromic, Gasochromic, Thermochromic Systems.
• Daylighting, Angle Selective and Redirectional Materials, Shading Systems.
• Antire. ection Coatings.
• Optical properties, measurement techniques and reference materials
• Design tools and selection criteria
• Durability and reliability

Solar Thermal Applications
• Collector Technology
• Water Heating
• Thermodynamic Systems/Thermal Electricity
• Thermal and Hybrid Applications
• Thermal Fundamentals
• Rural Applications

Sustainable Transport
• Sustainable Transportation and Renewable Energy: Challenges and Prospects.
• Sustainable Transportation and Renewable Energy: The Environmental Dimension.
• Sustainable Transportation and Renewable Energy: The Health Dimension.
• Sustainable Transportation and Renewable Energy: A Key to Climate Change Mitigation.

Wind Energy Applications
• Technical, Environmental and Resources Issues
• National Programme and Institutional Issues
• Off - shore Wind Power
• Small and Hybrid Wind Systems

Policy Issues
• Critical Reviews of Renewable Energy Policy – regional and international level
• Sustainable Energy Development – Reviews of Performance, Challenges and Aspirations
• Renewable Energy Policies and Programmes for Social and Industrial Development.
• Raising Awareness for the Age of Renewable Energy.
• Facilitating Renewable Energy Technological Innovation and Diffusion.
• Financing for Renewable Energy Development.
• Renewable Energy Policies and Programmes for the Reduction of Local and Regional Pollution.
• Renewable Energy Policies and Programmes for the Alleviation of Climatic Change.