ISES Solar World Congress 2007 to be held in Beijing, China, Sept 18-21, 2007
The next Solar World Congress of the International Solar Energy Society will be held in Beijing, China during Sept 18-21, 2007
After the Solar World Congresses 2003 (SWC2003) in Gothenburg, Sweden and 2005 (SWC2005) in Orlando, USA, and the celebration of the 50th anniversary of ISES in the same year, the International Solar Energy Society and the Chinese Solar Energy Society warmly welcome you to the ISES Solar World Congress 2007 (SWC2007) in Beijing, China, from September 18 to 21, 2007.
conference website
http://www.swc2007.cn/english/indexEn.htm
The Chinese government has made the development of renewable energy a high priority in its strategy for national sustainable development. Ambitious targets have been set in its mid- and long-term planning, projecting a 10% contribution of renewable energies to the total energy mix in 2020. With the Renewable Energy Law passed on January 1, 2006, the utilization and strategic development of renewable energy in China has drawn worldwide attention and acclaim.
China’s 11th Five-Year-Plan lays out a comprehensive set of measures to gear the country towards sustainable development; its objectives are to
* implement preferential policies for renewable energies in finance, taxation, and mandatory market share,
* encourage production and consumption of renewable energy,
* enhance their proportion in the consumption of primary energy,
* speed up wind energy development,
* set up thirty large-scale wind power projects with over 100 MW of dynamoelectric power,
* build wind power bases of GW proportions,
* quicken the exploration of biomass energy,
* support and develop straw and waste incineration, and landfill- gas generation,
* set up straw and wood power stations,
* extend the production performance of biomass solidified fuel, fuel ethanol, and bio diesel,
* raise the cumulative installed capacity of grid connected wind power and biomass generation to 5 GW and 5.5 GW respectively, and
* exploit and utilize energetically solar, geothermal and ocean energy.
We hope that you, the participants of the ISES Solar World Congress 2007, will provide some more answers on how to effectively promote sustainable development and which resources to use for that purpose. We count on your knowledge and experience!