Final Report of World Renewable Energy Congress 17 Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain 3-8 December 2016 Saturday 3 December WREN Council Meeting World Renewable Energy Network (WREN) Council meeting started with lunch at 1.00pm in the Crowne Plaza Hotel, followed by the main meeting on the Mezzanine level. Prof Sayigh welcomed the participants and asked each one to introduce themselves. Figure 1: WREN Council meeting. This was followed by presentation from Prof Sayigh of all the WREN/WREC activities during the two years 2015 & 2016. He stressed that although the meeting in Jakarta was a great success, the coordinator who had signed a contract to carry out the WREC Congress proved to be unreliable and did not honour its commitment to WREN. Therefore WREN Council will blacklist them regarding any future activities. 2016 is the first year when WREN has managed to run two major Congresses. The tentative programme for 2017 & 2018 was announced as follows: 1- February 6-8, 2017 World Renewable Energy Congress 16, University of Murdoch, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. 2- April 10-12, 2017 WREN- Ajman, UAE Symposium on Ajman Municipality Symposium on Renewable Energy and Green Buildings. 3- July 29 to August 2, 2017: Med Green Forum 4, Mediterranean Green Buildings and Renewable Energy -4, University of Florence, School of Architecture, Florence, Italy 4- October 15-21, 2017: ISESCO WREN International Seminar in Britain, Old Ship Hotel, Brighton, UK. 5- July 30 to August 3, 2018: World Renewable Energy Congress 18, University of Kingston, London, UK 6- November 4-10, 2018: ISESCO WREN International Seminar in Britain, Old Ship Hotel, Brighton, UK. - There were informal discussions later regarding the possibility of holding WREC- Sri Lanka and WREC Sharma Al-Sheikh Egypt in 2019.
WREN Business Discussion: Prof Sayigh explained the difference between WREN members and WREN Council Members. The Council member normally represents his or her country and takes charge of promotion, publicity and active participation in most of WREN/ WREC meetings. Prof Sayigh then expressed his sadness for the death of Mr Martin Adler WREN Chairman and Chairman of Trustees. Prof Robert Critoph was nominated to replace Mr Alder as Chairman of the WREN Council but not the Trustees. Also in addition to Dr Lawrence Kazmerski from USA, who has occupied the role of Vice Chairman of WREN since 1992, Dado Prof Dr Kamaruzzaman Sopian from Malaysia was propposed as second Vice Chairman of WREN. Figure 2: A Group Photograph of WREN Council from the meeting in Bahrain. Due to the importance of some members of the Council and their continued support to WREN, the Council proposed the following members to be WREN Advisors: 1- Dr Kuruvilla Mathew Australia 2- Mr Vidya D Amarapala Sri Lanka 3- Prof Dr Riadh Al-Dabbagh UAE 4- Mr Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes Germany 5- Prof Dr Liwei Wang China 6- Dr Dave Renne USA 7- Dr Fuad Al-Ansari Bahrain 8- Prof Dr Dorota Chwieduk - Poland 9- Dr Haris Doukas Greece
Membership of WREN Council or Country Representative: 1- All above names including the Chairman: Prof Bob Critoph, Two Vice-Chairmen: Dr Larry Kazmerski and Dado Prof Dr Kamaruzzaman Sopian; Prof Dr Don Swift-Hook, Trustee & Secretary of Board of Trustees. 2- Ms Ghada Fouad and Prof Mohsen Aboulnaga Egypt, 3- Mr Dr Shadia Ikhmayies & Mohammad Dabbas Jordan, 4- Prof Marco Sala & Prof Antonella Trombadore Italy, 5- Prof Dr Nader Al-Bastaki and Dr Fuad Al-Ansari Bahrain, 6- Dr Saad Al-Jandal Kuwait, 7- H E Sheikh Faleh Al-Thani & Prof Dr Siham Y Al Qaradawi Qatar, 8- Dr Ali Al-Alawi & Dr Syham Bentout Oman, 9- Prof Dr Najma Laaroussi and Prof Dr Hasan Nfaoui Morocco, 10- Dato Prof Dr Mohd Yusof Othman and Dado Prof Dr Kamaruzzaman Sopian Malaysia, 11- Mr Zeki Darwish Iraq, Dr Ruxandra Crutesca Romania, 12- Dr Marta Szabo Hungary, 13- Prof Bahram Moshfegh and Dr Jazaer Dawody- Sweden, Mr Pradeep Chaturvedi India, 14- Prof Dr Shyam Nandwani Costa Rica, 15- Dr. Fahad Al-Sulaiman Saudi Arabia, 16 Dr David Goodfield and Prof Martin Anda Australia, 17- Dr Alaa Hasan Finland, 18- Prof. Dr.- Arq. Irene Alicia Blasco Lucas Argentina, 19- Dr Seyedehmamak Salavatian and Dr Kaabi Najadian Iran, 20- Ms. Shanzay Tariq Pakistan, 21- Dr Ariana FUGA, Dr Osman Benchikh France, 22- Prof Dr Derya Oktay- Turkey, 23- Dr Erwin Susanto Sadirsan, and 24- Prof Peteris Shipkovs Latvia, 25- Prof Yoshinori Itaya Japan, 26- Prof Soogab Lee South Korea, 27- Ms Irine Kevbrine & Prof Sergey Karabanov Russia, 28- Dr. Indra Haraksingh, Caribbean 29- Tatyana Plaksina, Dr. Faiq Billal, and Prof Louis Lamarche- Canada, 30- Mr C H Chan and Prof Baizhan Li - China
Figure 3: Women Members of WREN (from left - Dr Ruxandra, Dr Marta, Prof Dorota and Prof Liwie) The Congress on 4 December 2016 The initial Congress registration was 260 participants and later reached over 300 participants from 42 countries. There were 151 submitted abstracts down loaded into USB and handed out with the Congress package to each participants. In the morning session: Three presentations were given: The first one was by Dr Naji Al-Mutairi, Deputy Director General of KISR: Shagaya Renewable Energy Initiative Kuwait. Then Dr Abdul Sattar Al-Taie, Executive Director, Qatar National Research Fund: Empowering Research on Energy Security, Sustainability and Clean Environment in Qatar. The third presentation was by Prof Ali Sayigh, Chairman of WREC and DG of WREN: Renewable Energy Progress Can the GCC be an Exporter of Electricity from Renewables? The chairmen of the main plenary were Dr Waheeb Al-Naser Vice President of Bahrain University and Dr Fuad Al-Ansari, Dean of College of Engineering, University of Bahrain
Dr Al-Mutairi Kuwait Dr Al-Taie Qatar Prof Sayigh - UK This was followed by two parallel plenary sessions with eight speakers, among them were: Mr Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes Germany, Dr Haris Doukas Greece, Dr Lawrence Kazmerski USA, and Mr Winfried Hoffmann Germany. Titles of their talk are in the programme. Mr Hoffmann Dr Doukas Dr Kazmerski Mr Hinrichs-Rahlwes In the afternoon three sessions ran in parallel. Some of the speakers are featured below.
On the right hand side Dr Kazmerski presentation on: Photovoltaic Technology: Where we are, how we got here, and where we are going? The Congress Official Opening On Sunday 4 December at 18:00 hr. His Excellency Prof Dr Riyad Yousif Hamzah The President of Bahrain University, H E Dr Abdulhussain Bin Ali Mirza, Minister of Electricity and Water Affairs, The Patron of the Congress arrived to Hotel Crowne Plaza Conference Centre. After that H E Sheikh Mohamad bin Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Minister of Oil and Gas arrived to the Congress Venue. The guests and participants assembled at the main theatre where the opening of World Renewable Energy Congress 17, took place. After the reading from the Holy Quran and the Bahrain National Anthem, Prof Dr Riyad welcome the two ministers and guests and expressed his delight that the WREC-17 is taking place in Bahrain. He stressed the importance of renewable energy to Bahrain and rest of the GCC countries and added that more than 40 papers from staff of the University of Bahrain were submitted to the Congress. H E Prof Riyad Hamzah H E Dr Abdulhussain Mirza Prof Ali Sayigh
The next to speak was H E Dr Mirza who expressed the aim was for The Kingdom of Bahrain to lay the foundation for the use of Renewable Energy and his ministry will legistlate the use of renewable energy and abide by the UN Convention of Climate Change. The last speaker was Prof Ali Sayigh who thanked the University of Bahrain, President, Dean of College of Engineering and H E Dr Mirza for being the Patron of the Congress. He also thanked the people of Bahrain and the Government of Bahrain for the welcome and hospitality shown to all the participants. Prof Sayigh expressed his specific thanks and appreciation to ISESCO, KFAS and KISR and all of the Sponsors for their support. H E Dr Abdulhussain Mirza, Ms Gada Fouad, H E Sheikh Mohamed Al-Khalifa, Prof Ali Sayigh and Dr Erwin Susanto Sadirsan. The Second day of the Congress Monday 5 December 2016
On this day there were three parallel sessions and several of the speakers gave their presentations: Prof Waheeb Al-Naser Prof Liwei Wang Ms.Hala Abdulrazaq Dr Naser Al-Naser Two parallel Seminars were running at the same time: One was EU-GCC Funding and the other was about IEA. Each seminar hosted more than 50 participants.
A Special session for Green Buildings and Sustainability was in the second day of the Congress The session chaired by from left Dr Sayed Ali Al-Mosawi & last right Ms Ghada Fouad. The Speakers were from left: David Goodfield Australia, Prof Fernando Recalde & Prof Marco Sala- Italy, Mr Joao Pinelo Silva Bahrain and Dr Saad S. AlJandal - Kuwait In the Evening a Gala Dinner for 150 participants was held at which several Pioneers were awarded their certificates and Prof Wang received on behalf of China the WREC Ali Sayigh Trophy for the country which had most successfully promoted renewable energy in the previous two years. The Third day of the Congress Tuesday 6 December 2016 Several outstanding papers were presented on this day among them the paper of Dr Larry Kazmerski on Dust Effect on Flat Surfaces; Dr Joachim Pasel, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Energy and Climate Research on Hydrogen production from bio-fuels using precious metal catalysts; Prof Al-Dabbagh, Why we need green buildings in the UAE; and Dado Prof Kamaruzzaman Sopian, Experimental Power Output on Data Analysis for Effects of Shading of Different PV Panels of with Different Number of Bypass Diode.
Dr Kazmerski, left and Dado Prof Sopian, right Prof Al-Dabbagh Dr Joachim Pasel At the end of the day the President of the University of Bahrain, The Dean of the College of Engineering and Prof Ali Sayigh expressed their thanks to all the participants for their valuable contribution and participation in this very successful Congress. Thanks to all the Sponsors and in particular to ISESCO Director General H E Dr Abdulaziz Altwaijri, KISR, Dr Samira Omar and KFAS, Dr Adnan Shihab Aldin for their support and contribution to the Congress. The fourth day of the Congress Wednesday 8 December 2016 This day was devoted to Technical Visits. The first visit was to Atkins Buildings with the 3-250 kw wind turbines at Bahrain Commercial Centre. Then the participants were divided into two groups: one went to see the Vernacular Architecture of Sheikh Issa House and the other group went to see the 5- MW photovoltaic project at the University of Bahrain.
Prof Dr Waheeb Al-Naser Vice President of Bahrain University explaining the PV installation of 5-MW.
EU-GCC Workshop Clean Energy R&I Collaboration and Funding Opportunity. University of Bahrain & IET Workshop: Wind Energy Systems, Design & Regulations
At the Closing Session Dr Fuad Al-Ansari Read the Congress Recommendations: During the last four days there were 42 countries present at the Congress and more than 250 participants presented 150 contributions in various fields of renewable energy including energy efficiency and energy conservation in buildings. The participants are recommending the following: 1- To speed up the legislation of using renewable energy in Bahrain 2- To encourage the public and officials to work together to improve energy conservation, increase energy efficiency through cultural awareness, smart design and the effective retrofitting of buildings. 3- To set up a Renewable Energy Electricity Target of at least 20% by the year 2030 in order to catch up with many other countries in the region. Also power purchase agreements of renewable Energy electricity can facilitate speedy and cost effective installations at around 10 Fils/kWh. 4- Request the University of Bahrain to initiate at least one renewable energy event each year. 5- The Kingdom of Bahrain should focus on Green Economy by encouraging investment, capacity building and by initiating appropriate legislation to achieve those goals. 6- A truly sustainable future for the Kingdom can be achieved quickly by integrating the massive use of renewable energy systems, energy efficiency and also by understanding the essential need for change.