Taking place for the very first time in Vienna at Messe Wien Congress Center on 4th-7th February 2013, EWEA 2013 Annual Event will unite the wind industry once again and return with a new theme that fosters progress and industry growth; EWEA 2013 will focus on significant opportunities for the industry.
EWEA – The European Wind Energy Association – has been organising events for over 25 years. During that time, EWEA Annual Events have grown into a leading European exhibition and conference for the wind energy industry. International competition in the sector has intensified and, as well as mature markets, there are a growing number of emerging markets seeking to establish their own wind energy capabilities.
Vienna may seem like an unusual choice for such a large industry event, but when you explore the conference programme and the line-up of keynote speakers you can see why this location is a natural choice for this year’s event. Emerging markets, a topic of the utmost interest to all in the wind industry, will be given a special focus at EWEA 2013. Vienna, the historic gateway to Eastern Europe, is therefore the logical place to bring together the players from Europe’s developed wind energy markets and emerging markets as diverse as Turkey, Romania and Poland.
Keynote speakers include the Irish and Turkish energy ministers, as well as the economic minister from host country Austria. Ireland holds the Presidency of the EU in the first half of 2013, Turkey is the epitome of an “emerging market” for wind energy and Austria hopes to get 71% of its electricity from renewable energy by 2020.
The conference programme includes several sessions featuring practical case studies from companies active in central and Eastern Europe, second wave and mature markets and there is also a focused emerging markets workshop which will look at the opportunities and challenges for wind energy in the eastern European and emerging markets on Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 February 2013.
