2003 Archive - Please Note: This is last year's information.

PreConference

Pre-Conference seminars (separate registration).

Renewable Energy 101 (2 days)

Presenters: Roger Taylor, Peter Lilienthal, Joe Wenisch, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Since 1994, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Village Power Group has worked on ways to match renewable energy technologies with international, rural energy needs. With a focus centered on water supply, lighting, communications, recreation, health services, education, food supply, enterprise, ice making, water purification, desalination, battery charging, and water pumping, they developed a multidisciplinary team, an application- and village-need-driven focus, and tested a broad set of in-country activities. They developed applications, testing systems, mapping resources, analyzing options; initiated pilot projects, conducted outreach, training, and information activities. This seminar shares their lessons learned and ways to initiate an integrated approach as a model for rural electrification with renewables.

• General Overview of Renewable Energy Technologies and Applications
• Resource Assessment: Solar, Wind, Biomass
• Technologies: Solar Electric (Photovoltaic) Technologies, Concentrating Solar Thermal Power, Solar Water and Air Heating, Biomass Conversion, Geothermal, Wind, Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
• Applications: Wind, Large, Utility Scale, Small, Village Scale and Applications Specific, Hybrid Power Systems
• Buildings: Building Integrated PV, Building Design
• Analysis and Modeling: Energy 10, HOMER
• Policy and Deployment Issues: Training Accreditation and Technology Certification, Climate Change: the UNFCCC and Current State of Affairs
• Policies for Renewable Energy Promotion: a Comparative Overview, Lessons Learned from the Village Power Experience

  Preconference Flyer – Renewable Energy Intensives