The WORLD SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DAY 2002, the major European conference on sustainable energy, held from 7 to 8 March 2002 in Wels, Austria:

Detailed conference programme
Highlights 2002
Participating countries
Energy Globe Award 2002 

The WORLD SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DAY 2002, the major annual European conference on renewable energy and energy efficiency, was held from 7 to 8 March in Wels/Upper Austria. The symposium once again provided a key forum for learning about the latest developments in energy policies, for exchanging know-how, for initiating projects and establishing partnerships.  

The conference was opened by the Upper Austrian Minister for Energy, Josef Fill, and Karl Kellner, Head of Unit at the European Commission's Directorate-General of Energy and Transport. Then Jan-Eric Sundgren, the president of the Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg/Sweden, gave an interesting outlook on the importance of global co-operation for sustainability. Brigitte Weiß from the Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology illuminated the topic from an Austrian viewpoint as she spoke about domestic energy research & development. The opening session was concluded by Gerhard Dell, regional Energy Commissioner and Managing Director of O.Ö. Energiesparverband, who presented an overview of the Upper Austrian approach to energy and sustainability. 

The second part of the "World Sustainable Energy Day" was dedicated to the winning projects of the Energy Globe Award 2002, which gave the audience the unique chance to find the most outstanding initiatives worldwide all lined up at one event. The interested listeners were able to learn about the projects in detail as the winners in the four categories Companies, Transport & Communities, Building & Housing as well as Private & Public Initiatives held their inspiring presentations. On Thursday evening, a get-together at a traditional Austrian restaurant offered the delegates, who had come to Wels from all over the world, the opportunity to discuss energy matters and exchange know-how in a relaxed atmosphere.  

The "World Sustainable Energy Day 2002" has not failed to continue the successful tradition of past events - this year more than 550people from more than 60 different countries have flocked to Upper Austria to attend the conference. The date for next year's symposium has already been fixed: the WORLD SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DAY 2003 will take place from 6 to 7 March in Wels/Upper Austria. Don't forget to mark this date in your calendar!

Organiser

The World Sustainable Energy Day 2002 and the Energy Globe Award were organised by the O.Oe. Energiesparverband, the energy agency in Upper Austria.

From 6 to 10 March 2002, Upper Austria was once again the meeting place for the great thinkers of the energy world. The well established "Energy Days" organised by O.Ö. Energiesparverband started off with a festive gala event to honour the winners of the Energy Globe Award 2002, the international prize for sustainable energy.

A politician who has already gone down in history, the last head of state of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev came to Linz to present one of the "Energy Oscars". The very best projects out of the some 1300 submissions from 98 different countries were then presented in detail on the conference WORLD SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DAY.

More than 550 people attended the symposium which was accompanied by the two seminars "Innovative Solar Technologies" and "Financing Sustainable Energy Development". Experts and decision makers from all over the world took the opportunity to learn about the latest trends in the energy sector and to exchange expertise.

The conference was followed by the "Energiesparmesse", one of the largest exhibitions and trade fairs on renewable energy sources and energy efficiency in the world attracting once again more than 200,000 visitors.

The events have been organised by the O.Ö. Energiesparverband, the regional energy agency of Upper Austria.

WORLD SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DAY 2002

Wednesday, 6 March

18.00 Energy Gala
festive Award Ceremony for the Energy Globe Awards 2002

Thursday, 7 March

Seminar "SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES" & guided tours

9.00 - 12.30 Seminar "Innovative Solar Technologies"

11.30 Guided tour of the "Energiesparmesse"
in English, French, Italian, Czech/Slovak, Spanish, German

WOLRD SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DAY

Opening session

13.30 Josef Fill, Regional Minister for Energy, Upper Austria
Nitin Desai, Under Secretary General, United Nations
Karl Kellner, Head of Unit, European Commission, Directorate-General for Energy and Transport

14.30 Global co-operation for sustainability
Jan-Eric Sundgren, President Chalmers University of Technology/Alliance for Global Sustainability, Göteborg/Sweden

14.50 Energy Research & Development in Austria - a Shining Example ?
Martin Huemer, Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology, Vienna/Austria

15.10 Upper Austria - an approach to energy and sustainability
Gerhard Dell, Energy Commissioner of Upper Austria, O.Ö. Energiesparverband, Linz/Austria

15.30 Discussion/Coffee Break

Companies

16.30 Wind Power Equivalent to a Nuclear Power Station
Alberto De Miguel, Director of Investments, Energía Hidroélectirica de Navarra (E.H.N.), Pamplona/Spain

16.50 Energy through Enterprise - seed capital for sustainable energy
Christine Eibs Singer, Deputy Executive Director, E+Co, Bloomfield/USA

17.10 The Solar Hearing Aid
Nick Ndaba, Managing Director, Botswana Technology Centre, Gaborone/Botswana

17.30 The World's Largest Biomass Power Plant
Stig Nickull, Managing Director, Oy Alholmens Kraft Ab, Pietarsaari/Finland

20.00 Evening Programme

Friday, 8 March

Transport & Communities

9.00 Salad in Fuel Tanks - biogas for transport
Jean-Claude Weber, Deputy Executive Director, Erdgas Zürich AG, Zurich/Switzerland

9.20 The Regeneration Project - a Christian Response to Climate Change
The Reverend Sally G. Bingham, The Regeneration Project ? Episcopal Power & Light, San Francisco/USA

9.40 Greußenheim - a town shows the way into a sustainable future
Bruno Scheiner, Mayor, Greußenheim/Germany
Raimund Fischer, Agenda 21 Executive, Greußenheim/Germany

Building & Housing

10.00 BedZED: the Zero Energy Urban Village
Richard McCarthy, Chief Executive, Peabody Trust, London/Great Britain
Michael Pitcher, BP Solar, Commercial Manager Northern Europe

10.20 NORDPOOL - an ecological and energy efficient refurbishment project
Helmut Poppe, Andreas Prehal, Poppe*Prehal Architects, Steyr/Austria

10.40 Power to Women: Solar Energy for Vietnam
Pham Thi Sam, Deputy Head of Unit, Vietnam Women's Union, Hanoi/Vietnam

11.00 Discussion/Coffee Break

Private & Public Initiatives

11.50 The 1 Watt Initiative - Cutting the World's Standby Losses
Benoit Lebot, Energy Efficiency Policy Analysis Division, International Energy Agency, Paris/France

12.10 Swapping Debts for Sustainable Energy
Maciej Nowicki, President, EcoFund, Warsaw/Poland

12.30 The Bet - European Youth fighting Climate Change
Henrike Wegener, European Bet Coordination Office, Berlin/Germany

12.50 Discussion

13.00 Concluding Statement
Wilhelm Molterer, Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Vienna/Austria

13.20 End of Conference

Seminar "FINANCING"

14.45 - 19.00 Seminar "Financing Sustainable Energy Investment"

Saturday, 9 March 2002, 10.00

Guided tour of the "Energiesparmesse"
in English, French, Italian, Czech/Slovak, Spnaish, German

Financing Sustainable Energy Investment

Innovative financing schemes can make sustainable energy investment become a win-win situation for the investors, the owners and the general public.

The seminar outlines successful financing schemes for renewable energy and energy efficiency.
 
Date:
8 - 9 March 2002
 
Venue:
Stadthalle Wels, Austria
 
Languages:
English/German
 
Information:
O.Ö. Energiesparverband,
Landstraße 45, A-4020 Linz, Austria
T: +43-732-7720-14386, F: -14383
E: officeesv.orat
 
Organisation:
O.Ö. Energiesparverband
Cross-Border OPET Bavaria-Austria
in co-operation with: ZREU
 
 
SEMINAR-PROGRAMME

FRIDAY, 8 MARCH 2002

14.45 Welcome and introduction
Christiane Egger, Head of Unit, O.Ö. Energiespar-verband, Cross Border OPET Bavaria-Austria

15.00 Show me the money: How to persuade investors to part with their cash
Gordon Edge, Platts Renewable Energy Report, UK

15.20 Retrofitting public buildings without public investment
Josef Mühlbachler, MP, Mayor, City of Freistadt, Austria

15.40 UNF ties Profitability to Sustainability
Xiaodong Wang, Senior Programme Officer for Climate Change, UNF-United Nations Foundation, USA

16.00 Discussion/Coffee break

16.40 How to calculate profitability? Examples from Sweden
Lotta Bångens, Aton Teknik Consultant / OPET Sweden

17.00 Mobilizing investment in sustainable energy
Virginia Sonntag-O'Brien, Managing Director, BASE, Switzerland

17.20 TPF - successful examples from Germany and Slovenia
Michael Geißler, Managing Director, Berliner Energieagentur GmbH, Germany

17.40 Citizens financing wind parks
Heinrich Bartelt, Managing Director, Bundes-verband Windenergie, Germany

18.00 Conclusions
Gerhard Dell, Energy Commissioner of Upper Austria, O.Ö. Energiesparverband, Austria

18.30 End of seminar

SATURDAY, 9 MARCH 2002

10.00 Guided tour of the "Energiesparmesse"
in English, French, Italian, Czech/Slovak, Spanish, German

The seminar
"Innovative Solar Technologies"

gave an overview of recent trends, technical innovations and outstanding solar projects worldwide.

 
Date:
7 March 2002, 9.00 - 12.15
 
Venue:
Stadthalle Wels, Austria
 
Languages:
English/German
 
Information:
O.Ö. Energiesparverband,
Landstraße 45, A-4020 Linz, Austria
T: +43-732-7720-14386, F: -14383
E: officeesv.orat
 
Organisation:
O.Ö. Energiesparverband
Cross-Border OPET Bavaria-Austria
in co-operation with: ZREU, ASiC 

SEMINAR-PROGRAMME

09:00 Welcome and introduction
Gerhard Dell, Energy Commissioner of Upper Austria, O.Ö. Energiesparverband

09:20The future of PV - "solar generation" until 2020
Murray Cameron, Chief Executive, European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA), Belgium

09:40 Technological innovations on the solar collector market
Kurt Leeb, Managing Director, ASiC, Austria

10:00 Solar Upper Austria - a shining example for Europe
Christiane Egger, Head of Unit, O.Ö. Energiesparverband

10:20 Discussion/Coffee break

11:00Dutch campaign heats up the solar market: 20,000 new solar installations
Giel Linthorst, Project Manager Solar Thermal Energy, ECOFYS, Netherlands

11:15 Seawater desalination using thermal solar collectors
Hendrik Müller-Holst, Technical Director Watermanagement, TiNOX GmbH Munich / ZAE Bayern, Germany

11:30 4MW photovoltaics for irrigation in India
Venkatareme Bakthavatsalam, Managing Director, IREDA, India

11:45 Electricity instead of marble - facade-integrated photovoltaics
Günter Köchle, Managing Director, stromaufwärts Photovoltaik GmbH, Austria

12:00 Discussion

12:15 End of seminar/Lunch

Several hundred people from all five continents have already registered, including the following countries:

Albania
Australia
Austria
Azerbeijan
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia/Herzegowina
Botswana
Brazil
Bulgaria
Colombia
Croatia
Cuba
Czech Republic
Egypt
Estonia
Ethopia
Finland
France
FYROM
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Iran
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Malaysia
Mongolia
Morocco
Nepal
Netherlands
Norway
Pakistan
Philippines
Peru
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Saint Lucia
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
United Kingdom