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Figure 73: Karl Böer speaking after receiving the Farrington Daniels Award (2003)

• Professor D Yogi Goswami (USA) was elected President in 2003.
2004
• The first ISCI Congress was held in Daegu, Korea.
• ISES made a strong showing at the Renewables 2004 conference in Bonn in early June.
• Through involvement on the International Steering Committee and the International Advisory Group,
ISES became recognized as an NGO with strong science and technology credentials.
• Two new Sections, Brazil and Lebanon, were accepted.
• ISES, together with the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) and the International Hydropower
Association (IHA), became a founding member of the International Renewable Energy Alliance (later
renamed to Ren-Alliance) during the Bonn International Renewable Energy Conference. In 2007 the
International Geothermal Association joined and 2009 the World Bioenergy joined. The goal of the
REN-Alliance is to advance policies that favour the increased deployment and use of all renewable
energy technologies.
• November 2004: ISES organises the 1st International Solar Cities Congress, held within the framework
of a Memorandum of Understanding between ISES and the city of Daegu, Korea.

Figure 74: Anna Grete Hestnes at Solar Cities in Daegu

2005
• August 2005: ISES, together with its U.S. Section the American Solar Energy Society, celebrates its Golden
Jubilee at the Solar World Congress in Orlando/Florida, USA. The ISES publication “The Fifty-Year History
of the International Solar Energy Society and its National Sections” is released during the Congress.
• ISES launches the Pocket Reference Books with the release of the first book “Solar Energy Pocket
Reference”.
• ISES releases the second White Paper “Rapid Transition to a Renewable Energy World”, by Prof. Dieter
Holm, presenting a rationale for effective policies to advance renewable energies in the developing world.

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