Renewables and Islands Global Summit
IISD Reporting of the Renewables and Islands Global Summit
Session 1: Sustainable Development: The Road from Rio
Session 2: Islands Energy Trends and Strategies
IRENA Renewable Energy Islands Initiative
Dolf Gielen, Director, IRENA Innovation and Technology Centre
Renewable Energies for Remote Areas and Islands (REMOTE)
Georgina Grenon, French Representative to IEA/RETD Executive committee
Renewable Energy Trends and Strategies in the Caribbean Community
Crispin Gregoire, United Nations Development Programme
Session 3: Strategic Partnership for Renewable Energy in Islands – Identifying the Needs and Requirements for Financing
Session 4: Enabling Frameworks for Investments
Midsized wind turbines for mini grids and islands
Leopold Faye, Manager, Vergnet
Strategic approach for Island Grid Energy Management (available upon request)
Akira Kobayashi, Chief Project Manager, Hitachi
Session 5: Best Practices and Challenges in Deploying Renewable Energy
Cape Verde
Jose Brito, Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister, Cape Verde
Iceland
Benedikt Höskuldsson, Head of Energy Affairs at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Iceland
Renewables Readiness Assessment
Gauri Singh, Director of Knowledge Management and Technology Cooperation, IRENA
Side event by the German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development:
Smartening renewable energy supply on islands – addressing technical, economic and systemic challenges
Despite the fact that there is a high economic potential for renewable energy on islands due to high costs of fossil energy sources we still lack sufficient progress in deploying relevant renewable energy systems. With innovative systemic and technical solutions for isolated (renewable) energy supply on islands gaining ground, the debate is now gaining political momentum. In order to assess the prospective opportunities, the session will provide concrete examples of renewable energy installations and discuss the challenges, approaches, and technical solutions for renewable energy supply on islands. Furthermore, lessons learnt from implementing renewable energy based energy supply networks will be elaborated.
Galápagos Islands Zero Fossil Fuels Initiative
Pablo Carvajal, Advisor to the State Secretary of the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy, Ecuador
Experiences from German bilateral cooperation
Bernhard Zymla, Head of GIZ Competence Centre Energy on behalf of BMZ
Graciosa Project Overview
Alexander Voight, CEO of Younicos