World Renewable Energy Forum, WREF 2012 Final Report:

World Renewable Energy Forum, WREF 2012 Final Report:Under a special agreement in 2009, between World Renewable Energy Congress andthe American Solar Energy Society, early January, the two organizations agreed towork together and organize WREF 2012 in Denver Convention Center during 12-17May 2012. Since that date WREC worked very hard to select invited speakers,publicize the event in all its media channels and published leaflets and brochures todistribute around the world. The Forum was World Renewable Energy Congress – XIIand the American Solar Energy Society Annual Conference and was chaired by DrChuck Kutscher and co-chaired by Professor Ali Sayigh. Each morning commencedwith a one-and-a-forty-five minute plenary session where 16- eminent speakerspresented their keynote speeches, see figure 12 below.

Figure 12: Eight plenary speakers and their titles.Edward Mazria, Architecture 2030Adaption sustainable Architecture 2030Mr Michael T. Eckhart- Global Head ofEnvironmental FinanceThe Need to Attract Long-Term, Loc-CostDr Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri, DirectorGeneral of ISESCOISESCO renewable Energy ProgramProf Jacques T.N. KimmanProf of Renewable Energy, Zuyd UniversityThe road towards energy neutral CitiesDr Mohamed El-AshryScaling Up Renewables for Energy Securityand Sustainable DevelopmentDorothy Robyn, Deputy Under Secretary ofDefense for Installations and Environment,U.S. Department of DefenseClean Energy the Future is nowSteven Chu, Secretary of Energy, USAGovernment and Industry driving the CleanEnergy TransitionDr Dan Arvisu, Director of NRELNREL Research and Development and itsprogress

The WREN dinner was held on Monday 14 May 2012 took place at the Hyatt RegencyHotel. On that occasion, the Ali Sayigh Trophy was handed to the Spanish HonoraryConsul, Pepe Parrado, in recognition of Spain achieving the highest national increase ofrenewable energy installation during 2011 and 2012.Figure 15: Handing the Trophy to the Honorary Spanish Consol with the presence ofProfessor Thorsteinn, Chairman of the Selection Committee, and H E Dr AltwaijriAnother important occasion was the honouring of the 2012 Pioneers. This year’srecipients were: Dr A. Kaabi-nejadian, Advisor of Renewable Energy Organisationof Iran; Ms Monica Oliphant, Chairperson of Australian Solar Energy Society; ProfessorWasim Saman Director of Research, Institute for Sustainable Systems and Technologies,Adelaide University; Professor Dr Donald T Swift-Hook, Secretary General of WRENTrustee; Professor AbuBakr. S. Bahaj, Head of Sustainable Energy Research Centre,University of Southampton; Ms Gail Karlsson, J.D., ENERGIA Advisor, USA; Dr KeithEmery, Principal Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Prof Dr DatoKamaruzzaman Sopian, Director of Solar Energy Research Institute, Malaysia and DrAbdulaziz Othman Altwaijri, Director General of ISESCO, see figure 16.Figure 16, WREN pioneers forthe year 2012

WREN awarded H E Dr Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri one of the highest award among allpioneers. He received the Outstanding Pioneer award for his role in promoting renewableenergy and sustainable development among 56 – ISESCO countries during the last 10years, see figure 17.Figure 17: Dr Altaijriwith his Pioneer awardat WREF2012.WREF2012 which incorporated the World Renewable Energy Congress – XII, was agreat success. More than 2000 participants registered and there were over 100 exhibitorsat the Forum Exhibition.During the Forum Elsevier launched their 8-volume Comprehensive Renewable Energy.This major reference publication has 154 contributors, eight editors and the editor-inchiefis Professor AliSayigh, see figure 18.Figure 18, WREN-Elsevier stand at theForum Exhibition whereComprehensiveRenewable Energyvolumes were displayed.