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2008
• During the year the following ISES supported conferences were held and attended by the
ISESPresident:February - International Solar Cities Congress, Adelaide Australia, October – Eurosun
Lisbon, Portugal, November - Latin American Regional Conference, Florianopolis, Brazil, November – Asia
Pacific Regional Congress, Sydney, Australia.
• June – ISES President Monica Oliphant, Vice President Dave Renné, and Executive Director Christine
Hornstein represented ISES at WIREC in Washington, DC.At a meeting of the International Renewable
Energy Alliance (IREA), the name of the organziations was changed to: the Renewable Energy Alliance,
or REN-Alliance, to avoid confusion with the newly established IRENA.Peter Rae was the Chair of the
REN-Alliance.
• The gas heating system is replaced with a wood pellet heater at the ISES Headquarters - another step
towards making the ISES offices CO2 neutral.
• ISES releases the second in the series of pocket books, the Wind Energy Pocket Reference

2009
• During the year the following ISES supported Congresses were held and attended by the ISES
President:June-IHA Congress (REN Alliance) – Iceland, September – Iberoamerica RE Summit, Guadalajara
Mexico, October – SWC2009, Johannesburg South Africa.
• Christine Hornstein represented ISES at the Founding Conference of IRENA in Bonn on 29 January 2009.
At the conference it was announced that the Interim Director General of IRENA would be Ms. Helene
Pelosse.
• Ms. Pelosse met with Christine Hornstein and Monica Oliphant (on Skype) in April 2009.A meeting with
Ms. Pelosse was also arranged with REN Alliance representatives in Stockholm on 15 September 2009.
Jan-Olof Dalenbäck and Christine Hornstein participated for ISES. IRENA and the REN Alliance agreed
on fields of co-operation to work together (via an MOU) in order to speed up the utilisation of RE sources
worldwide. Fields of co-operation at the time were:
o Carbon funds for renewables;
o Sustainability assessment;
o Potentials for renewables;and
o Renewable energy scenarios.
• Monica Oliphant presents the Karl Boer Solar Energy Medal of Merit to Hermann Scheer at a ceremony
hosted by the University of Delaware and the Boer family, USA.
• ISES releases the Passive Solar Architecture Pocket Reference book.
• August – Elsevier gives ISES 6 months notice that in March 2010 Renewable Energy Focus will no longer
be the official magazine of ISES. End of 10 year contract started in 2000.
• In December:The first cooperation between IRENA and ISES involved an IRENA&REN-Alliance Side Event
at UNFCCC COP15 in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009.
• Also at COP-15 Ms. Helen Pelosse, the Interim Director of IRENA, met with ISES and other representatives
of the REN-Alliance.
• NZ leaves ANZSES which then becomes AuSES.
• The Solar World Congress 2009 is held in Johannesburg, South Africa, the second time the SWC was held
on the African continent.
• Dave Renné from the U.S. is elected ISES President for 2010-2011.

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