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• D. Renné, M. Oliphant, and E. Weber participated in the 9th IRENA General Assembly in Abu Dhabi,
January 12-15.They also attended the Public-Private Dialogue, where the first White Paper of the Coalition
for Actions “Towards 100% Renewable Energy Working Group” was rolled out by ISES member Rainer
Hinrichs-Rahlwes, the Chair of the group.Both Dave and Monica played key roles in developing the White
Paper.They all attended the Coalition for Action Strategy Meeting, and Dave participated in a GSC Board
meeting.For the remainder of 2019 Dave served as a co-Chair with Rainer in the Working Group as they
developed a second White Paper for release in early 2020.
• D. Renné and E. Weber participated in the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue as well as the REN 21 Korean
International Renewable Energy Conference planning meeting, April 8-10.
• D. Renné gave an invited speech at SNEC 2019, Shanghai, and attended a GSC Board Meeting, June 3-6.
• D. Renné represented ISES at Intersolar South America in Sao Paolo, Brazil on August 27-29 and
participated in several panel discussions. He also participated in a meeting of ABENS.
• D. Renné was invited by REN21 to attend the KIREC 2019 in Seoul, South Korea, October 21 – 25, and
participated in several panel discussions, as well as a meeting of the REN 21 Steering Committee.ISES was
re-elected for another 3-year term on the SC.
• The ISES SWC2019 was held in Santiago, Chile, November 3-7, and hosted by SERC/Chile.As with
SWC2017 the Congress was held together with the IEA SHC Conference. This was the first SWC held in
South America.
• The second winner ELSEVIER-ISES Renewable Transformation Challenge is presented. The winner,
“Sunspot Solar Electric Cooking” by Team SUNSPOT was presented the award at the awards banquet at
SWC2019, Santiago, Chile.
• The second instalment of Infographics were launched at the SWC2019 in Chile. This second instalment
proactively highlights existing and highly successful applications of solar thermal energy. Three different
examples of solar thermal applications were highlighted:
1. Solar thermal process heat for brewing beer in a German brewery.
2. Solar thermal process heat for the mining of copper needed for electronics in a Chilean
mining site.
3. Solar thermal process heat for generating steam used in the production of pharmaceuticals
in Jordan.
• Klaus Vajen of Germany is elected president for the term starting 01 January 2020.
• In December 2019 D. Renné completes his final term as ISES President. His ten years is the longest term
of any President in the 65 years history of ISES. His legacy is that ISES has a high profile and excellent
working relationships with the many other organisations that have formed over the last 10 to 20 years
such as REN21, IRENA , Global Solar Council etc.
Figure 88: ISES Headquarters Staff as of 2020
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