About Official Side Events

About Official Side Events and Official Side Event Workshops

The purpose of the WIREC 2008 Official Side Events (OSE) and Official Side Event Workshops (OSEW) was to enchance participant's capacity and knowledge across WIREC's thematic areas. WIREC 2008 OSE and OSEW offered a unique chance for the world community to discuss the opportunities and challenges of a major, rapid, global scale-up of renewable energy and advance the goals of energy security, climate change mitigation, and sustainable development. The Washington International Renewable Energy Conference consists of three co-located events: WIREC 2008 Ministerial-Level Meeting, Business Conference & Trade Show at WIREC 2008, and WIREC 2008 Official Side Events.

Approved Official Side Events

2020 Vision Education Fund - Rebirth of the Electric Car
Accelerating the Development of Renewable Energy - Accelerating the Deployment of Renewable Energy: How Feed-In Tariffs can be applied in North America
ACORE- The Economic Impact of Renewable Energy
Advanced Biofuels Coalition - Advanced Biofuels
APP Renewable Energy Task Force - Asia-Pacific Partnership: Accelerating the Growth of Renewable Energy Technologies
Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) - Renewable Energy Education & Workforce Development: A Global Outlook
Baylor Institute for Air Science (BIAS) - Renewable Fuels for Aviation
Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) - Biotechnology for Cellulosic and Advanced Biofuels: Feedstocks, Enzymes and Biorefinery Technologies
BP - Will Bio-Science Change the Future of Energy?
Business Council for Sustainable Energy - Industry Perspectives on How the Carbon Market Can Promote Deployment of Clean Energy Technologies
Clean Cities program - Clean Cities and Energy Independence
CPV Consortium- Concentrator Photovoltaics (CPV): Advanced Technology Promise Becomes Energy Solution
Covanta Energy - The Role of Waste in the Future of Renewable Energy
Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH (dena) - Renewables Are Good Business
Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS) of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Renewable Energy for Africa: small scale, decentralized, productive use
ELIF Business Solutions -COMESA - Zambia Integrated Biofuels and Biomass Processing, and Marketing Refund Programme
Energy Action Coalition - Jobs in Renewable Energy: Got Want One? Want One?
Energy Future Coalition (EFC) - New Alliances for a New Energy Future
European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) - Renewable energy policy in Europe - 20 % by 2020
GE Energy - Solving the Challenge
GEG Agency - ENERGY GLOBE Award
Geothermal Energy Association Geysir Green Energy - Building Effective Government-Industry Collaboration
German Ministry of Agriculture - Pilot Certification System of Biomass
German Ministry for Environment - Sustainability criteria for biomass
German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) - The German success story of renewable electricity development: preconditions and future challenges
Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) - GBEP-Global BioEnergy Partnership-Bioenergy and Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges
Global Urban Development and Rockefeller Brothers Fund - Climate Prosperity and Renewable Energy
Good Energies, Inc. - Good Energies and Climate Change
Greenpeace- Energy [R]evolution - A sustainable World Energy Outlook
Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) - Renewable energy's role in global security
International Energy Agency (IEA) - Innovative Approaches to the System Integration of Renewable Electricity
International Hydropower Association - Defining Sustainable Hydropower
International Renewable Energy Alliance (IREA) - Community and bottom-up strategies driving 100% world-wide renewable energy future
International Risk Governance Council (IRGC) - Risk Governance Guidelines for Bioenergy Production
LAC-CORE - Biomass and Sustainable Energy in the Dominican Republic and Haiti
LaGuardia Foundation - REES Investment Opportunities in Tuscany
Leighty Foundation - GW-scale Transmission and Annual-scale Firming Options for Diverse, Stranded Renewables: Electricity, Hydrogen, Ammonia, and Others
Methane to Markets Partnership Secretariat - Methane to Markets Partnership: International Opportunities in Renewable Energy Projects in Landfills and Manure Waste Management
Millennium Institute SolarQuest Baltic Sea Solutions (BASS) - Tools for Integrated National and State Energy Policy Planning: Threshold 21
Moroccan American Trade and Investment Center - Morocco: Challenges and Strategies for Building Sustainable Energy Resources
NASA, Office of Education - Higher Education Meeting the Needs of Space Exploration, The Oceans, The Earth, Atmosphere and The Land
National Hydrogen Association - Connecting Hydrogen and Renewables
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) - From the Lab to the Market: Accelerating Renewable Energy Innovation and Deployment in the U.S. and Globally
National Venture Capital Association - Role of Venture Capital in Driving Renewable Energy Innovation
National Wildlife Federation - Bioenergy & Communications: Sessions I & II
Natural Resources Canada - An Overview of Canada's Renewable Energy Industry
NY Loves Clean Tech c/o CEG - Creating an Enabled NY for Clean Tech Innovation
Ocean Energy Concil - Oceans of Energy: Ocean Thermal Energy - True Baseload Renewable Energy plus Desalinated Water
Organization of American States- Renewable Energy: Electricity and Biofuels in Latin America and the Caribbean
Pellet Fuels Institute - Biomass Heating Fuels: Low Hanging Fruit for Carbon Emissions and Energy Independence
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection - Pennsylvania: State of Innovation
Planet 2025 Network - Converting CO2 into Things People Need
Prize Capital - Prize Capital Biofuels Prize
Remineralize the Earth: Towards a Sustainable Agriculture, Forestry and Climate - Sustainable Technologies to Enhance Biomass Production: New Tools in the Toolbox
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) - Accelerating the Deployment of Renewable Energy Technologies: Regional Report from the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) and US Department of State
RPM Ecosystems - Thinking Outside the Box: The Nevada Reforestation and Bioenergy Project
Sidede Wind Farm[SWF] - Bridging American Wind technologies and Bio-Fuel skills to rural western Kenya in Nyanza
Solar Household Energy Inc. - Solar cooking: Renewable energy at home for a greener, healthier and wealthier world
Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) - North-South-South Dialogue on Biofuels, Climate and Sustainable Development
Stoel Rives LLP - Emerging Investment Opportunities in the U.S. Wind, Solar and Biofuels Industries
TEDCO - Legal Considerations and Strategies for Cleantech Start-ups
The Danish Ministry of Climate and Energy - Renewable Energy Technology Deployment
The Presidential Climate Action Project - A Clean Energy and Climate Change Roadmap for the Next President of the United States
The Swedish Trade Council - A System-Based Approach to Sustainable City Development
The World Bank Group - Accelerating Clean Energy Technology Innovation
UNICA - U.S.-Brazil Biofuels Cooperation: One year later.
University of Delaware - Clean Electric cars backing up renewable energy
US State Department - African Rift Valley Geothermal Initiative
US State Department, E Bureau - Government Procurement of Renewable Energy
Volvo Group - Renewable Fuels for CO2-Neutral Road Transport
Winrock International - Biogas for Better Life: An Africa Initiative
Worldwatch Institute and REN21 - The Global Status of Renewable Energy: 2007

How were Official Side Events and Official Side Event Workshops Selected?

WIREC 2008 OSE and OSEW are a forum for non-governmental, governmental, and/or inter-governmental partners to showcase their projects and programs in front of a high level public and private sector audience. A selection committee was appointed to determine the Official Side Events, with final approval provided by the US Department of State. The firm Energy & Security Group (ESG) is administering the WIREC Official Side Events program, working closely with ACORE and the Department of State. For more information please contact Ms. María H. Rivera-Ramírez; maria@energyandsecurity.com