Record Number of Abstracts, Presentations Submitted for WREF 2012

For the first time, the American Solar Energy Society’s National Solar Conference will be held under the same roof with the biennial World Renewable Energy Congress.  The combined event is WREF 2012. The conference draws prominent speakers and technical presentations from renewable energy laboratories, installations and industries around the world. WREF 2012 will examine how renewable energy technologies address the world’s economic, environmental and security challenges at every scale, from off-grid villages to gigawatt power plants. 

The spectacular response more than doubles the number of papers submitted for the 2011 conference, held last May in Raleigh, N.C.

“We’re delighted to see that the level of participation reflects the vigorous progress in deployment of renewable energy technologies around the world,” noted Susan Greene, president of the American Solar Energy Society. “The conference is going to be a goldmine of information and networking contacts for renewable energy professionals, clean energy advocates and students.”

Scientists, engineers, architects and economists from 66 nations and 37 states sent in proposals for presentations. The United States leads the count with 400 submissions, including 144 from national laboratories operated by the U.S. Department of Energy, and 191 from university faculty and students.

 

For more information, and to register for the conference, visit www.wref2012.org

WREF 2012 is presented by the American Solar Energy Society, the World Renewable Energy Network, the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Colorado Renewable Energy Society,
and the International Solar Energy Society.

Contact Seth Masia, smasia@solartoday.org, 303.594.1657