If your organization would like recognition as a Participating Organization, and you agree to promote the event, the American Solar Energy Society can provide a discount for your members to use.

Qualifying types of organizations include:

• 501(c)3 Nonprofit organizations
• Associations (business, trade or professional) including
  • commercial real estate
  • sustainable business practices groups
  • professional associations
  • chambers of commerce, and others
• Universities, vocational and trade schools as well as their associations
• Government agencies at all levels
• ASES Chapters
• LinkedIn groups
• Advocacy groups (nonprofit)
  

When your group qualifies as a Participating Organization, we will:

• Recognize your organization’s participation on the SOLAR 2013 website (including a link to your organization’s website) and in the program guide at the event
• Provide a discount code for you and your members to use, for registration as well as for exhibit space.
• Provide blurbs, graphics and links for you to use in your communications

To become a Participating Organization your group agrees to promote these SOLAR 2013 opportunities to your membership: 

• Participation as presenters and speakers (call for participation is now open)
• Exhibiting at SOLAR 2013
• Attendance at SOLAR 2013
• Using these types of promotion:
  • Adding a button to your website that links to the SOLAR 2013 website, and
  • Email, newsletter, social networking and other tools that you already use

Click here to get started!

• the 38^th National Passive Solar Energy Conference
• the 8^th ASES Policy and Marketing Conference, and
• the inaugural Young Professionals in Renewable Energy Conference.

The American Solar Energy Society invites participation from professionals with special knowledge in the solar, renewable or sustainability fields. Program selections are based solely on the merit of the abstract or proposal. Acceptance of abstracts or proposals for presentation is based on a review of submitted materials by the designated Solar 2013 review committee. Proposals may include technical papers (to be presented at the conference) as well as forum sessions.

 Technical paper presentations at the conference include:

• Oral presentations – Typically 10-20 minutes per paper presentation (length to be determined and included in acceptance information).
• Poster presentations – Presenters will create a poster to display and will have the opportunity to do a brief overview, followed by discussion.
• “Ignite” presentations – Each presenter has 5 minutes, 20 slides, 15 seconds per slide.

Forum sessions may include:

• Panel discussions organized on a specific topic.
• Demonstrations of technology or techniques.
• In-depth discussion or debates.
• “Shoot-outs” or comparisons of competing (or complementary) technologies.

These are the topical areas for Solar 2013:

Annual National Solar Conference

• Photovoltaics
• Concentrated Solar Power
• Solar Thermal
• Distributed Wind
• Resource Applications and Integration
• Sustainable Transportation
• Water and Energy Technologies
• Cross-Track, Multi-Technology, or Other

Passive Solar Conference

• Emerging Architecture & Passive Building Technologies
• Daylighting, Modeling and Building Automation

Solar and Renewable Policy & Finance Conference

• Finance & Industry Development
• Policy & Sustainability

 Young Professionals in Renewable Energy

The inaugural Young Professionals in Renewable Energy Conference will include sessions from other tracks at Solar 2013. If you would like your proposal to be considered for inclusion, please enter the appropriate information during the abstract submission process. Additional information will be available at solar2013.org.

Continuing Education Credits

Depending on topic, ASES may be able to offer professional continuing education credits for various technical sessions and forums.  Having a session approved for credit can potentially increase attendance and expose your presentation to interested conference attendees.  Presentations that qualify for CEUs will be grouped with other qualifying presentations to enable the entire session to offer credit. If your proposal meets the criteria and is accepted, additional information may be requested from you.

Important Information and Deadlines

• The deadline for submission is November 6, 2012.
• The review process is “blind” – author/submitter names are withheld during the review process.
• Please do not submit multiple formats (e.g., paper and forum) on the same research.
• You will have the opportunity to select your presentation-style preference
• Registration: the presenting author for accepted papers, as well as organizers of accepted forum proposals, must register by February 15, 2013 in order to secure the presentation in the schedule. Other registration information is included in the Terms and Conditions.

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Professional members of ASES are encouraged to participate in Division activities related to their field.  Each division holds a business meeting at the annual conference.

Here is the schedule of meetings to be held at the World Renewable Energy Forum, May 13 – 17, 2012 in Denver, Colorado.

• Conference Registration is required to attend in person.
• All  meetings will take place at the Colorado Convention Center.

• 501(c)3 Nonprofit organizations
• Business or trade associations
• Universities or schools
• ASES Chapters
• LinkedIn groups
• Advocacy groups
  

When you qualify as a participating organization, we will:

• Recognize your organization’s participation on the WREF website
• Provide a discount code for your members to use.

To become a participating organization you agree to:

• Put a button on your site that links to the WREF website
• Promote attendance at WREF to your members via email and other tools that you use

Click here to get started!

Barbara Farhar, PhD

A one-day workshop, “Engaging Women in Clean Energy Solutions,” will emphasize energy, poverty, and gender issues in the developing world.

The workshop will be held Sunday, 13 May 2012, at the Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado, USA. An intensive focus on energy and gender will jump-start the conference week throughout which the Energy and Gender (EG) Section is organizing technical sessions and forums on energy and gender issues. Dr. Michelle Bachelet, Director of UN Women, has been invited to keynote the workshop and to address the Forum’s first plenary session. The Workshop will be opened by Professor Ali Sayigh, Director General of the World Renewable Energy Network (WREN).

Key issues will include energy as women’s business, cooking and electrification, methods for women’s inclusion in clean energy solutions, and climate and energy justice. A technical committee, chaired by Dr. Barbara Farhar, Ph.D. of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) at the University of Colorado at Boulder (USA), is developing the workshop as well as WREF’s EG section.

WREF2012 will focus on how renewable energy technology can address the world’s economic, environmental, and security challenges from an international perspective as well as explore what it will take to integrate renewables into the world’s energy infrastructure on a much larger scale. This international conference gathers the world’s top energy experts in covering research, technology transfer, manufacturing, installation, utilities, environment, policy, professional education, workforce development, consumer education, and small-scale distributed technologies.

Since WREF2012 will take place just one month before the UN Conference on Environment and Development (Rio+20), it provides an opportunity to highlight the importance of renewable energy in building a green economy, one of the key themes of Rio+20. It can also support the goals of the UN’s global campaign on Sustainable Energy for All by 2030.

This workshop on Engaging Women in Clean Energy Solutions will identify specific examples of gender-sensitive energy access initiatives and policies that support women’s economic empowerment, improve food security and water management, facilitate a widespread transition to low-emission energy technologies, conserve critical ecosystems, and promote successful adaptation to changing climate conditions.

WREF 2012 is being organized by the American Solar Energy Society (ASES), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the World Renewable Energy Network (WREN), and is supported by the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) and the Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES). The EG Section is also being sponsored by the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

WREF2012 comes at a watershed moment in the evolution of energy sourcing. Renewable energy sources are now crossing over the grid-parity divide into mainstream use throughout the world. The Forum will examine how renewable and sustainable energy technologies address the world’s economic, environmental, and security challenges at every scale from off-grid villages to gigawatt power plants.

The EG section will also present technical sessions and forums focusing on the role of women in science and technology.

The workshop may be added to a conference registration for an additional $50, or may be purchased separately as a stand-alone event. Click here to register.

Register today at WREF2012.org!