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WEC supports UN SE4ALL global tracking report
The World Energy Council’s formal support of the UN Secretary General’s Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative reached a major milestone last week with the release of the Global Tracking Framework report at the Vienna Energy Forum, organised by UNIDO, and in London. The WEC is amongst the 15 agencies who compiled the report. The [...]
Posted on 6 June 2013
Interview: Vivien Foster on the UNSE4ALL global tracking report
The Global Tracking Framework report is set to help monitor progress towards the objectives of the UNSE4ALL initiative. The World Bank’s Vivien Foster, who oversaw the compilation of the report, tells us about the key findings and how the WEC’s continued support helps achieve the objectives. What’s the significance of Global Tracking Framework report? In [...]
Posted on 6 June 2013
USEA shares knowledge on small island power
The United States Energy Association (USEA), the WEC’s US member committee, recently exchanged their knowledge with Indonesian experts. From 13 to 20 April, nine senior managers from PT PLN Persero (PLN), the Indonesian electric utility, travelled to the Hawaiian islands of Oahu and Maui for meetings with Hawaiian Electric Company, Maui Electric Company, First Wind, [...]
Posted on 22 April 2013
Africa Energy Indaba gave resounding support for women in energy and skills development
- by Monique Tsang and Celine De Canha The role of women in energy and the need to boost energy skills received resounding support at the 5th Africa Energy Indaba, the World Energy Council’s annual African regional meeting, held during 18–21 February in Johannesburg. At the event the South African Minister of Energy, Ms Dipuo Peters, gave her commitment [...]
Posted on 11 March 2013
Christoph Frei meets with Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General
Dr Christoph Frei, the World Energy Council’s Secretary General, met with Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General, on Friday, 10 February at the United Nations headquarters in New York. At the meeting Christoph Frei presented a letter on behalf of WEC Members and Officers formally supporting the UN’s “International Year of Sustainable Energy for All”. He [...]
Posted on 12 February 2012
Interview: Ori Chandler on the Future Energy Leaders Programme
The World Energy Council has just launched the next phase of its Future Energy Leaders Programme. Ori Chandler, who heads up the programme, tells us what we should expect to see from the programme at the World Energy Congress and beyond. What is the Future Energy Leaders Programme? The Future Energy Leaders Programme, or FELP, is [...]
Posted on 17 June 2013
Energy leaders of tomorrow to get their say at 2013 World Energy Congress
SEOUL & LONDON, 17 June 2013 – The next generation of energy industry leaders will play a key role at the World Energy Congress in Korea, 13 to 17 October 2013, as the event launches its Future Energy Leaders Programme (FELP). The initiative is aimed at attracting to the Congress some of the brightest young [...]
Posted on 17 June 2013
Interview with WEC Regional Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean
WEC has recently welcomed Nicolás Depetris Chauvin as its new Regional Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean. In an interview, he talks about the region’s energy and development situation and how he will be supporting the WEC network. The Latin America and the Caribbean region has huge energy resource potential but energy poverty is [...]
Posted on 11 June 2013
World Energy Council grows its Latin America and Caribbean network with the appointment of new Regional Manager
London, 11 June 2013 – The World Energy Council (WEC) has appointed Dr Nicolás M. Depetris Chauvin as its new Regional Manager for the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region. Dr Depetris Chauvin will be supporting the WEC in strengthening its network in the LAC region. He has been tasked to promote the participation of [...]
Posted on 11 June 2013
Asian ministers endorse 22nd World Energy Congress
LONDON / SEOUL, 31 May 2013 – The Organizing Committee of the 22nd World Energy Congress on Friday welcomed the endorsement of the world’s premier energy event by Asian government ministers at a United Nations-sponsored energy conference. In a communique issued Thursday, ministers at the Asian and Pacific Energy Forum (APEF) welcomed the offer of [...]
Posted on 31 May 2013
Middle East leaders to address World Energy Congress
Leading government and industry figures among 150 confirmed speakers LONDON / SEOUL, 28 May 2013 – Senior government and industry figures from some of the Middle East’s leading economies are among the 150 speakers confirmed today by organisers of the 22nd World Energy Congress, which takes place in Daegu, South Korea, from 13 to 17 [...]
Posted on 28 May 2013
Asian leaders to address 2013 World Energy Congress
Government and industry figures among 150 confirmed speakers LONDON / SEOUL, 28 May 2013 – Senior government and industry figures from Asia’s leading economies are among the 150 speakers confirmed today by organisers of the 22nd World Energy Congress, which takes place in Daegu, South Korea, from 13 to 17 October 2013. This is only [...]
Posted on 28 May 2013
UNSE4ALL releases first set of global data on energy access, renewable energy and energy efficiency
About 1.2 billion people – almost the population of India – don’t have access to electricity, 2.8 billion have to rely on wood or other biomass to cook and heat their homes, renewable energy accounts for 18 percent of the global energy mix, and the largest energy savings and greatest expansion of renewables happened in [...]
Posted on 28 May 2013