ASES Topical Divisions bring together members with similar interests in order to exchange information. Membership in ASES Divisions is a benefit of ASES Professional and Organizational membership.
Divisions Chair: Lorin Vant-Hull
Division Activities Include:
- publishing newsletters
- conducting an annual meeting of their members in conjunction with the National Solar Conference
- providing technical expertise to Conference Technical Review Committees, the development of Find Solar estimator modules, and ASES Policy Statements and White Papers
- keeping members informed of the latest developments in their area(s) of interest through their individual websites
The current ASES Divisions include:
Includes photovoltaic energy technology, wind energy technology, ocean thermal energy conversion, and solar thermal electric technology with special emphasis on the energy systems and their applications.
Chair: Arnold Leitner
Passive solar heating and cooling, daylighting, Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV), site design, building design tools and case studies.
Chair: Vikram Sami
Promotes the development, exchange, and use of information on the multiple environmental and societal benefits of renewable energy combined with energy efficiency and conservation.
Chair: David Panich
 Concerned with methods and processes which utilize solar flux for heat driven applications. Includes solar ponds, desalination of water, agricultural drying, process heat for industry, photo-enhanced processes (hazardous waste treatment), high temperature solar enhanced processes (water decomposition to form hydrogen), materials processing (high tensile strength fiber production by chemical vapor deposition), solar pumped laser, district heating and cooling, and solar cookers.
Chair: Barry Butler
Plug-in vehicles (PHEV and EV), vehicle to grid (V2G) infrastructure, energy efficient community design, renewable hydrogen and biofuels.
Chair: Steve Heckeroth
 The development and acquisition of resource data and dissemination to the end user.
Chair: Jim Bing
Promotes the use of clean, renewable energy for supplying clean water for drinking, agriculture, and other beneficial uses. The Division supports stated ASES goals: providing sound technical and scientific information to interested persons on the use and development of renewable energy.
Chair: Nathan Mitten
The Small Wind Division advances and promotes small wind, also referred to as “distributed wind turbines” (DWT), as key to global energy sustainability and promotes the development, exchange, and utilization of information on DWT, encourages research and education in the field, and promotes widespread development and use of renewable energy, with an emphasis on residential-scale applications.
Chair: Trudy Forsyth |
