Los Angeles, California now has the title of world’s largest annual wind energy conference and exhibition. Close to 7,000 exhibitors and professionals are scheduled to attend. The point of these conferences is to keep the world updated on the current events and on goings of the many ways the U.S. and others are keeping the earth green.
WindPower 2007 will discuss the technologies, policies, and international essentials, which allow wind power to be possible.
In addition to specific policy sessions, WINDPOWER 2007 attendees can expect updates on policy developments taking place on Capitol Hill. One these much anticipated and controversial developments affecting the U.S. wind industry is the anti-wind provisions of H.R. 2337.
From to policy updates on bills such as H.R. 2337 to a turbine vendor forum to U.S. project development overviews, WINDPOWER 2007 will include more than 250 speakers and moderators, 175 poster presentations and 50 sessions organized into tracks that—along with policy—include business and legal issues, utility and transmission, global perspectives, radar and sitting updates, and small wind and technical focuses.
As reported in Wind Energy Weekly last month, provisions in the bill would burden the wind power industry with new requirements that have never applied to other energy sectors. Specifically subtitle D of the bill would direct the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) to review every existing and planned wind project, a mandate far beyond the agency's resources and capabilities, and criminalize operation of wind energy facilities not formally certified by USFWS. Under the legislation, landowners and farmers with wind turbines on their property would be subject to invasive inspection requirements at any time; landowners and farmers could face one year in jail or a $50,000 penalty for constructing or operating an uncertified wind turbine, regardless of whether it is for personal use or on a commercial scale.
You can find out more at http://www.windpower.com/ . if you wish to find a seat or present an idea, namely in wind power, that convention is the biggest and best to attend.
As Always, Keep it Green.
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