Workshop: Wind Energy - The Facts - Integrating Wind Power in Hungary

BUDAPEST - 12 June 2009

- Radisson SAS Béke Hotel

- Budapest, Hungary

The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) and the Hungarian Wind Energy Association (HuWEA) are pleased to invite you to a workshop exploring the untapped wind power potential in Hungary and issues related to the further development of this power-generating technology in the country.

The key-note speakers will be: György Szerdahelyi, Head of Department, Ministry of Transport, Telecommunication and Energy, Hungary Máté Kovács, Councillor, Ministry of the Environment and Water, Hungary Jacopo Moccia, Policy Officer, European Wind Energy Association, Belgium Andrea Hercsuth, Policy Officer, Directorate General for Transport and Energy, European Commission, Belgium Péter Tóth, President, Hungarian Wind Energy Association, Hungary Please find the full programme attached.

The workshop will be attended by government officials and members of regional authorities, energy market regulators, transmission and distribution system operators and other wind energy industry representatives.

Coffee will be served as from 9:30 and the workshop will begin at 10:00. There will be lunch served at 13:15. Press packs containing relevant information will be available on site, at the registration desk.

Issues concerning the energy, climate and economic crisis are at the top of the international agenda and in the minds of all European citizens and policy makers. Wind energy is already a major power-generating technology in Europe and offers a solution that can no longer be ignored in terms of energy security, clean power production, and sound economic investments.

‘Wind Energy - The Facts’ is a European Commission-funded project, widely considered to be the most important wind energy reference in the world. It presents a detailed overview of the wind energy sector, with the most up-to-date information on the essential issues concerning wind energy today.

The new edition of the ‘Wind Energy - The Facts’ publication forms the basis of a third dissemination workshop and belongs to a series of workshops that EWEA is organising, in collaboration with national wind energy associations, to highlight issues related to the further development of wind power in the most promising emerging markets.

The workshop is one of the events being organised for the Global Wind Day 2009. Within the framework of the Wind Day, the following Hungarian wind farms parks will be open to visitors from 12-15 June: Levél, Kisigmánd, Szápár, Kulcs, Erk, Bükkaranyos and Pécs.

Source: EWEA

For more information about the event or to organise an interview with the speakers, contact Paolo Berrino Tel: +32-2-400-10-55, or paolo.berrino at ewea.org; További információk magyar nyelven Bíróné Dr. Kircsi Andrea, Titkár, Magyar Szélenergia Társaság Tel: +36-52-325-816 - kircsia at delfin.klte.hu