MONDAY 24TH NOVEMBER 2003
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SESSION 1
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09:00- 10:30
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Welcome Addresses
Torben Brylle, Danish Ambassador to South Africa
Rainer Hinrichs–Rahlwes, Director General, The Federal Ministry
for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany
Member of the European Parliament, Strasbourg
Welcome by the organiser
Peter Aspinall, SBS Conferences
Towards an Earth Charter for Renewable Energy, Dr Hermann
Scheer, Member of the German Parliament, Alternative Nobel Prize
winner, General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy
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PLENARY - OPENING SESSION
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Opening Address
Dr Preben Maegaard, President, WWEA, Denmark
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Opening Address
Prof. Galal Osman, President AfriWEA, Egypt
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Official Opening of the Conference
South African Minister for Minerals and Energy, Phumzile Mlambo–Ngcuka
(to be confirmed)
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BREAK 10:30 - 11:00
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SESSION 2
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11:00- 13:00
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Report from City Energy Strategies Conference
Sarah Ward, Sustainable Energy Africa, South Africa
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PLENARY - KEYNOTES
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Capacity Building: creating abasis for wind energy utilisation,
Klaus Knecht, InWent, Germany
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Wind for Africa
Hermann Oelsner, Darling IPP, South Africa
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Wind energy technology:status and future perspectives
Prof. James Manwell, University of Massachusetts, USA
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Renewable energy's contribution to clean development
Prof. Klaus Toepfer, UNEP (to be confirmed)
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The way to a sustainable hydrogen economy
Prof. Erico Spinadel, President, Argentine Wind Energy Association,
Argentina
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The World Bank's activities in sustainable development
Peter Woicke, Executive Vice President and MD, Private Sector Operations,
World Bank
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Wind energy — a sustainable business opportunity
Heinz Dahl, Renewable Energy Generators Australia (REGA)
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LUNCH 13:00 - 14:00
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SESSION 3
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11:00- 13:00
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SESSION 4
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11:00- 13:00
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GLOBAL MARKETS : AFRICA
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TECHNICAL ISSUES :
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Chairs: Galal Osman, African Wind Energy
Association & Elvis Zekeri, Nigerian Wind Energy Association
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WIND ASSESSMENT AND PREDICTION
Chairs: Yukimaru Shimizu, Mie University
& Frede Blaabjerg, Aalborg University
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Wind energy in South Africa: time to implement?
Jason Schäffler, IIEC Africa, South Africa
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UNEP’s Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment Programme
Tom Hamlin, UNEP, France (to be confirmed)
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Policies for the future: spreading awareness of wind opportunities
(North Africa)
Khalid Benhamou, MD Sahara Wind, Morocco
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Wind energy mapping using a mesoscale atmospheric model and
a global meteorological database
Matthias Mohr, St. Albans, United Kingdom
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Wind energy in Libya
Mohamed Muntasser, International Energy Foundation, Libya
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Wind data bank for the Southeastern Region of Brazil
Gustavo Bodstein, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Wind energy applications in Eritrea
Enrique Rodríguez–Flores, Lahmeyer International GmbH,
Germany
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Higher–order closure mesoscale modelling for wind climates
Hans Bergstrom, Uppsala University, Sweden
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ESKOM’s first wind energy experiences at Klipheuwel
Riaan Smit, Distribution, Eskom, South Africa
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Optimization of Weibull Parameters using genetic algorithm
elements and knowledge of the Brazilian regional characteristics
Vanessa Gonçalves Guedes, Electric Power Research Centre
(CEPEL), Brazil
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DISCUSSION
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DISCUSSION
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BREAK 15:30 - 16:00
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SESSION 5
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16:00- 18:00
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SESSION 6
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16:00- 18:30
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GLOBAL MARKETS : EUROPE
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TECHNICAL ISSUES :
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Chairs: Wolfgang Palz, WCRE & Tanay
Sýdký Uyar, Marmara University
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WIND ASSESSMENT AND PREDICTION
Chairs: Gustavo Bodstein, Federal University
of Rio de Janeiro & Grigori Dmitriev, Russian Academy of Sciences
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Pre–conditions for successful implementation of a wind
energy industry in Europe
Heinrich Bartelt, MD German Wind Energy Association BWE, Germany
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Assessment of wind resources in South Africa
Soren Gjerding, MD Tripod Wind Energy, Denmark
Using mesoscale–microscale modelling to assess Africa's
wind resources
Michael Brower, TrueWind Solutions, LLC, USA
Online monitoring and prediction of wind power for transmission
system operation centres
Kurt Rohrig, ISET, Germany
Mapping wind energy — current status in Chile
Miguel Mansilla, Universidad de Magallanes, Chile
Exploratory wind data analysis as a governing factor for local
wind site design in Brazil
Maria Pereira de Araújo, ENERBRASIL-Energias Renováveis
do Brasil Ltda, Brazil
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Development of wind power in Sweden and the Swedish Wind Energy
Association's promotion of its extension
Gunnar Grusell, Vice President, Swedish Wind Energy Association
(SVIF), Sweden
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Role of renewable energies in a sustainable energy system —
case study: Germany
Manfred Fischedick, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment,
Energy GmbH, Germany
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Current situation & barriers to the promotion of wind power
Victor Elistratov,Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University,
Russia
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DISCUSSION
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DISCUSSION
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19:00
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PLENARY PANEL DISCUSSION:
TIME TO IMPLEMENT RENEWABLE ENERGIES IN AFRICA – BUT HOW?
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Programme is subject to possible changes
pending confirmation from certain speakers
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