Jennifer
Morgan, Director, Climate Change Programme, WWF and
Eminent Expert of the Plenary session on electricity
this morning.
Ma
Shenghong, China.
Steve
Westwell, CEO and President, BP Solar.
Emílio
la Rovere, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
|
|
MORNING
PLENARY SESSIONS
IV:
Policies for Renewable Energy Market Development
A:
Electricity
Listen
to:
Carlos
Magariños, Director General, UNIDO, outlining
UNIDO's work to bring access to modern energy to some
of the estimated 1.8 to 2 billion people who currently
live without it.
Ma
Shenghong, China, briefing participants on China's
Brightness and Township Electrification Programme, which
aims to bring modern energy to thousands of remote rural
communities.
Aloys
Wobben, CEO, Enercon GmbH, presenting the wind energy
projects of the Windfarm Bimolton in Germany.
Jayantha
Nagendran, Project Director, DFCC Bank, Sri Lanka,
briefed participants on an energy services delivery
project in Sri Lanka.
Steve
Westwell, CEO and President, BP Solar, explained
that if solar energy can sustain the rate of cost reductions
achieved during the past 30 years, then it should be
competitive with mainstream grid-supplied electricity
on a price per kilowatt hour basis within 15-20 years.
B:
Heat and Transport
Listen
to:
Freddie
Mothlatlhedi, Director, Energy Affairs SADC South
Africa, presenting the SADC Programme for Biomass Energy
Conservation in Southern Africa (ProBEC).
Jürg
Hofer, City of Basel, Switzerland, briefing participants
about municipal policies for the promotion of renewable
energy and energy efficiency.
Sunder
Bajgain and Felix ter Heegde, spoke about domestic
biogas.
Emílio
la Rovere, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, briefed participants on the Brazilian Ethanol
Programme that supports biofuels for transport derived
from sugar cane. |
|
Carlos Magariños, Director General, UNIDO,
and Co-chair of the Plenary session on electricity today.
Aloys Wobben, CEO, Enercon GmbH.
Jayantha Nagendran, Project Director, DFCC Bank,
Sri Lanka.
Jürg Hofer, City of Basel, Switzerland.
|