Global Wind Energy Council Launched
May 20, 2005
Denver, Colorado [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] Leading wind associations representing the United States, Canada, Europe, China, India, Japan and Australia jointly announced the North American launch of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) at WindPower 2005 in Denver, Colorado this week.
"Wind energy reached a point where it needed a global voice and capability to collaborate on a common agenda."
- Randall Swisher, Executive Director of AWEA and founding member of GWEC GWEC, convened to unify the wind industry and promote wind energy globally, stands united in its call for stronger policy worldwide to support wind energy growth to help lessen the impact of climate change. The organization aims to provide a global forum for the wind energy industry and its representative organizations worldwide.
GWEC operates in more than 50 countries and represents over 1,500 organizations involved in hardware manufacture, project development, power generation, finance and consultancy, as well as researchers and academics.
Randall Swisher, Executive Director of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), a founding member of GWEC, said the consideration of this global wind energy collaboration has been in the works since the 2002 global wind conference in Paris.
"Wind energy reached a point where it needed a global voice and capability to collaborate on a common agenda," said Swisher. "The council is in an organizational phase, and the work plan is beginning to evolve."
"Our key objective is to serve our members," Swisher said. "They will actually define the council's specific objectives."
GWEC celebrated its European launch in March in Brussels, and has scheduled additional announcement launch dates -- Australia in August at Sydney's AusWind; Canada in October at Toronto's Can-WEA and China in November at the International Conference for Renewable Energies.
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