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High Powered Panel Discussion at WWEC-2006 : To address global policy issues on wind energy

The 5th World Wind Energy Conference-cum-Exhibition -2006 organized by the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) and Indian Wind Energy Association (InWEA) in New Delhi from November 6-8, 2006 promises to be a meeting of the minds for policy makers on wind power development from all over the world.

The high powered panel discussion has attracted ministers and policy makers from all over the world. The high powered session to be chaired by Vilas Muttemwar, the Minister for Non-conventional Energy Sources, Government of India will have participation of Ministers and parliamentarians from Germany, Argentina, Cuba, Pakistan and Morocco. Vasundhara Raje, the Chief Minieter of Rajasthan, one of the leading wind energy states in India has also agreed to participate in this high powered discussion.

The theme of the Panel Disscussion on November 6 is Energy Independence : Powered by Wind. Keynote address by Michael Mueller, the German Minister and Hermann Scheer, member of the German federal Parliament will set the tone for the high powered discussions. Hermann Scheer is the author of "Solar Economy" and the Chairman of the World Congress on Renwable Energy (WCRE)

About 100 technical papers and 30 posters from all over the world are slated to be presented in this mega-event. An exhibition with nearly 60 stalls in the Ashoka lawns will show-case cutting-edge technology from all over the world.

WWEC-2006 is the annual event of WWEA. Last year it was held in Melbourne and the year before that in Beijing. At both occasions, major policy measures were announced. This year too, certain far reaching policy measures at National (Indian) as well as Global level are likely to be announced.

The event is also emerging as a mega institutional networking opportunity and talks on International Rewnewable Energy Agency are likely to come up in the discussion. Other institutional alliances are also likely to be announced.

WWEC-2006 ie being held at a time when the worldwide installations of wind energy have boomed to 60 GW at the end of 2005 and in India itself nearly 6000 MW of wind power capacity has been installed by the end of September 2006. At the same time there is also a focus on rural electrification. India plans to electrify nearly 25,000 villages through decentralised generation technologies and wind energy technologies promise to play a major role in this. Same holds true for countries like Cuba and Bangladesh.

Undoubtedly a new energy future is being scripted.

PRESS RELEASE - InWIND CHRONICLE

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